Rubrik’s Radar Tackles Ransomware With Machine Learning

Rubrik takes on ransomware with its new service called Radar. But unlike traditional security platforms that target this type of malware from a threat prevention vantage point, the data protection and management company comes at it from a backup perspective.“Most people are consuming Rubrik because they want to provide backup, recovery, and retention,” said Chris Wahl, the company’s chief technologist. “Now you also have an army of security operators that are monitoring every single data point that comes into your environment by way of looking at backup data. I think that’s a pretty clever way of diving into ransomware.” Ransomware attacks rose 350 percent in 2017 over the previous year, according to an NTT Security survey. These attacks typically target companies’ data — hackers block access to businesses’ files and systems and then demand a ransom to unlock them.