In an era of relentless data demands, government agencies are constantly challenged by securing, storing, and backing up sensitive information. From ransomware attacks to compliance regulations, federal, state, and local agencies need to ensure their data is secure or at least able to be recovered if an emergency renders it inaccessible.
Rubrik Cloud Data Management (CDM) and rubrik data is a New Generation Cloud-Native Solution. With Rubrik, organizations can protect their evolving hybrid cloud infrastructure at scale with a unified, resilient platform purpose-built to deliver enterprise-class availability and immutability, providing the most efficient way to manage backup, recovery, and data protection in a world with zero-trust security in a cloud-enabled environment. For agencies seeking to break free from antiquated processes and systems, Rubrik provides advanced automation for AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure GovCloud, and hybrid environments to achieve previously unattainable compliance.
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What Is Rubrik Cloud Data Management?
Rubrik Cloud Data Management (CDM) is a state-of-the-art solution that transforms the manner in which public agencies safeguard and manage their data. It provides policy-based automation, instant recovery, and immutable backups to help safeguard data even under cyberattack.
Rubrik’s API-first design allows government agencies to seamlessly integrate with third-party solutions and security ecosystems. Rubrik provides a superior experience whether your infrastructure is in a private data center, public cloud, or hybrid, with seamless interoperability across all, protecting your data with FIPS-compliant encryption, and complete governance controls.
What Makes Data Security a Top Priority for the Government Sector?
There is an increasing number of attacks against public organizations. As per the federal cybersecurity report for 2024, the ransomware attacks on government networks in the US are rising by over 32% year on year. These operations not only interrupt critical services but endanger national and citizen safety.
Government organizations must adhere to high standards of data protection, such as:
FedRAMP (US Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program)
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FIPS 140-2
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DoDIN APL
DHS CDM APL (Department of Homeland Security Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Approved Products List)
Non-compliance can lead to fines, system outages, and damage to the company’s reputation. Rubrik enables government agencies to remain compliant and maintain data availability.
The Rubrik Cloud Data Management Solution Key Features
1. Immutable Backups and Zero-Trust Security
Rubrik’s architecture is designed with an absolute zero-trust model.
All backup data is:
- Immutable - Written information cannot be changed or overwritten.
- Encrypted – The data is encrypted by default in transit and at rest with FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certified disks.
- Append-only - Prevents tampering from insider or outside threat agents.
This ensures that data can become undrinkable or inaccessible even during a ransomware attack, which positions Rubrik as one of the safest and most reliable backup solutions in the market.
2. Ransomware Recovery and Rapid Response
- Rubrik’s capability to recover from a ransomware attack is one of its best features.
- Although it doesn’t stop an attack, it is critical to respond and recover.
- Polaris Radar, which is a Rubrik AI-driven subsystem, monitors suspicious behaviors such as rapid file changes and entropy deviations, which are signs of encryption.
- It identifies the infected systems and files and lets the administrator rollback with a single click to clean versions.
- Since backups are now immutable and air-gapped from production environments, ransomware can neither encrypt nor delete them.
- This makes meeting RTO (Recovery Time Objectives) fast, predictable, and compliant.
3. Automation and API Integration Rubrik enables automation to simplify and streamline complex data management.
- Admin is able to: Schedule backups, replications, and archiving jobs in minutes.
- Take advantage of policy-based automation to ensure uniform protection.
- Rubrik can be integrated with DevOps, monitoring, or orchestration tooling using its RESTful API.
- The result? Reduced administrative burden and quicker response to security or compliance events.
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Flexibility Rubrik supports top government-approved cloud platforms, like AWS GovCloud (US), Microsoft Azure GovCloud, and on-premises or hybrid infrastructure.
This flexibility allows agencies to comply with cloud mandates, migrate workloads seamlessly, and manage their data using consistent protection policies, regardless of where it resides.
Built-In Compliance and Certifications. Rubrik is therefore a reliable option if you want to ensure compliance with government standards.
It has several important certifications: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) CDM APL, Department of Defense (DoDIN) Approved Products List, FIPS 140-2 validated encryption, and SOC 2 Type II compliance.
These certifications reinforce Rubrik’s dedication to federal security and operational standards, ensuring agencies can confidently fulfill audit requirements both internal and external.
Use Cases for Government Agencies:
- Federal Agencies Secure, policy-driven backends across multi-cloud environments that meet FedRAMP and DoD requirements.
- State & Local Governments Modernize disaster recovery and reduce dependency on legacy systems to improve uptime and cost efficiency.
- Defense & Law Enforcement Protect classified or sensitive mission data with zero-trust principles and immutable storage.
- Education & Public Services Keep services running, maintain audit trails, and protect citizen data from cyber-attacks.
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Rubrik combines machine learning with next-generation data management to go far beyond traditional backup and data protection solutions, innovating to build the future of secure and intelligent digital operations.
Its Polaris suite provides analytics that:
- Identify security anomalies, recommend retention policies, predict capacity usage Automate compliance reporting.
- This intelligence enables IT leaders to move from reactive to proactive data management, a key differentiator for public sector innovation. It suggests retention policies, predicts usage of storage, informs capacity planning facilitates auto-generation of reports.
- This information allows IT leadership to be pushed from reactive data management to proactive, a huge differentiator for the public sector.
Proven Success in Delivering Mission Critical Solutions for Information Management needs. As a certified Rubrik implementation partner, Aptimized enables agencies to rethink their data protection paradigms with modern, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure.
Our offerings include:
What we deliver:
Review and Testing: An Examination of Your Infrastructure and Compliance Needs.
Implementation: Roll out Rubrik CDM to your agency based on your security and operational requirements.
Integration: Work with Rubrik Inc. and other platform providers such as ServiceNow, Azure, or AWS to integrate for full automation.
Support & Training: Be confident that your IT teams can monitor, manage, and recover your data securely.
With a strong background in the public sector, healthcare, and regulated industries, Aptimized will help ensure your Rubrik implementation is designed to meet both operational resilience and government compliance.
We are going to redesign the whole approach of data management for the government, ensuring the system can evolve with new technologies and data usage trends.
We will ultimately need to help create data management policies that are tangibly applicable to our experiments.
This has helped us understand from an experiential perspective what the short-term effects of data management, not the long-term effects.
Take the Next Steps
Security of the citizen data is not optional; your agency is responsible for it.
With Rubrik Cloud Data Management and Aptimized’s expertise in government implementations, you can modernize with confidence and speed.
Get in touch with Aptimized today to book a consultation and learn how Rubrik can help your agency realize secure, compliant, and future-proof data management.
FAQs
Q1: What is Rubrik Cloud Data Management?
Rubrik Cloud Data Management (CDM) is a cloud-native, software-defined platform that enables automation and zero-trust security to simplify backup, recovery, and data protection for government and enterprise organizations.
Q2: How can Rubrik assist in securing the data of government entities?
Rubrik guarantees full immutability of data and compliance with FedRAMP, FIPS, and many other standards and enables full recovery from ransomware attacks within minutes, so that agencies can protect and recover critical data quickly.
Q3: How is Rubrik different from traditional backup?
Rubrik provides modern, scalable data protection with instant recovery, AI-driven anomaly detection, full automation, and support for hybrid cloud, differentiating from legacy backup solutions.
Q4: Does Rubrik meet the government security requirements?
Yes. Rubrik is averse to DHS CDM APL and DoDIN APL, as well as FIPS 140-2, which covers the most stringent U.S. gov data protection and compliance requirements.
Q5: Does Rubrik work with existing government infrastructure?
Absolutely. Rubrik’s API-first architecture enables ease of integration with ServiceNow, AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure GovCloud, and many other third-party tools.