Webinar Description
Key Takeaways
- Enterprise-focused roadshow addressing data security and cyber resilience strategies
- Designed for IT leaders, CISOs, CIOs, and data protection officers from mid-sized to large organisations
- Covers ransomware defence, rapid data recovery, cloud data management, and regulatory compliance
- Features keynote presentations, customer case studies, and expert panel discussions
- Addresses operational challenges around business continuity and minimising disruption from cyber incidents
Introduction
The Rubrik Forward Roadshow 2024 brings together IT and security leaders to examine the evolving landscape of enterprise data protection. As ransomware attacks grow more sophisticated and regulatory requirements become increasingly stringent, organisations face mounting pressure to develop comprehensive cyber resilience strategies that extend beyond traditional backup and recovery approaches.
This in-person roadshow targets CISOs, CIOs, IT managers, and data protection officers who bear responsibility for safeguarding critical business data. The programme combines keynote sessions with real-world customer stories and expert panels, offering practical insights into defending against modern cyber threats while maintaining operational continuity.
About the Rubrik Forward Roadshow
The Forward Roadshow represents Rubrik’s flagship educational series, designed to share current thinking on data security challenges facing enterprise organisations. The event format emphasises executive-level discussion and thought leadership rather than product demonstrations, positioning it as a strategic planning resource for technology decision-makers.
Attendees can expect a structured programme that moves from broad industry trends through to specific implementation approaches. Customer panels provide particularly valuable perspectives, as organisations that have experienced cyber incidents or undertaken significant data protection transformations share lessons learned and practical recommendations.
Ransomware Defence and Recovery Strategies
Ransomware remains the dominant concern for enterprise security teams, and the roadshow dedicates significant attention to both preventive measures and recovery capabilities. The distinction matters considerably in practice. While organisations invest heavily in perimeter defences and endpoint protection, the assumption that attacks will eventually succeed has become a planning baseline for mature security programmes.
Recovery speed directly influences business impact when incidents occur. Traditional backup architectures often prove inadequate against modern ransomware variants that specifically target backup infrastructure and attempt to corrupt or encrypt recovery data. The event examines how organisations can architect their data protection environments to resist these tactics and restore operations within acceptable timeframes.
The concept of cyber resilience extends beyond simple data recovery to encompass the entire organisational response to security incidents. This includes maintaining visibility into what data was affected, understanding the blast radius of an attack, and ensuring that restored systems are free from persistent threats before returning them to production.
Cloud Data Management Considerations
Enterprise data environments have grown substantially more complex as organisations adopt hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. Data now resides across on-premises data centres, public cloud platforms, and software-as-a-service applications, creating protection challenges that legacy backup tools were never designed to address.
The roadshow explores how modern data security approaches must account for this distributed reality. Consistent policy enforcement across environments, unified visibility into data locations and protection status, and the ability to recover workloads to alternative infrastructure all feature in discussions of cloud-era data management.
Cloud-native workloads present particular considerations. Container-based applications, serverless functions, and managed database services each require different protection approaches than traditional virtual machines or physical servers. Understanding these distinctions helps organisations avoid gaps in their data protection coverage.
Regulatory Compliance and Data Governance
Compliance requirements increasingly influence data protection strategy. Regulations governing data privacy, financial services, healthcare, and critical infrastructure all impose specific obligations around data handling, retention, and recoverability. Failure to meet these requirements carries significant financial and reputational consequences.
The intersection of compliance and cyber resilience creates both challenges and opportunities. Organisations must demonstrate not only that they protect data appropriately but also that they can recover from incidents within mandated timeframes. Audit and reporting capabilities become essential for proving compliance to regulators and stakeholders.
Data governance extends beyond regulatory compliance to encompass broader questions of data classification, access control, and lifecycle management. Understanding what data exists, where it resides, and who can access it forms the foundation for effective protection strategies.
Building Resilient IT Infrastructure
The roadshow addresses infrastructure resilience as a holistic discipline rather than a collection of point solutions. Effective cyber resilience requires coordination across security operations, IT infrastructure, and business continuity planning functions that often operate in organisational silos.
Practical discussions cover how organisations can assess their current resilience posture, identify gaps, and prioritise improvements based on business risk. The customer case studies prove particularly instructive here, as they illustrate how different organisations have approached these challenges given their specific constraints and requirements.
Testing and validation receive attention as critical but often neglected aspects of resilience planning. Recovery capabilities that have never been exercised under realistic conditions may fail when needed most. The event examines approaches to regular testing that build confidence in recovery procedures without creating unacceptable operational risk.
Who Should Attend
The Forward Roadshow is structured for senior technology and security leaders with strategic responsibility for data protection. Chief Information Security Officers and their teams will find relevant content on threat landscape evolution and defensive strategies. Chief Information Officers and IT directors can expect discussions of infrastructure architecture and operational considerations.
Data protection officers and compliance professionals benefit from coverage of regulatory requirements and governance frameworks. The event also serves IT managers responsible for implementing and operating data protection systems, providing context that helps connect tactical decisions to broader organisational objectives.
Organisations currently evaluating their cyber resilience capabilities or planning significant investments in data protection infrastructure will find the roadshow particularly timely. The combination of strategic perspective and practical case studies supports informed decision-making for complex, high-stakes technology initiatives.
The Current Threat Environment
The timing of the Forward Roadshow reflects the current intensity of cyber threats facing enterprise organisations. Ransomware operators have professionalised their activities, operating as organised criminal enterprises with sophisticated tooling and business models. Attack techniques continue to evolve, with threat actors increasingly targeting backup infrastructure and employing double-extortion tactics that combine encryption with data theft.
Simultaneously, the attack surface has expanded as remote work, cloud adoption, and digital transformation initiatives create new exposure points. Security teams face resource constraints while defending against adversaries who can focus their efforts on finding single points of failure. This asymmetry makes resilience-focused approaches increasingly attractive as complements to preventive security measures.
For organisations seeking to strengthen their data security posture, events like the Forward Roadshow provide opportunities to learn from peers, understand emerging best practices, and evaluate how their current capabilities compare to industry standards.