Rubrik launches Rubrik Agent Cloud

Cloud data management and data security company Rubrik has announced the launch into general availability of Rubrik Agent Cloud, which aims to help organisations deploy AI agents without compromising on security or governance.

The solution is designed to act as a layer between applications, agents and their underlying large language models, providing capabilities such as continuous monitoring and observability.

Users will be able to use Rubrik Agent Cloud to discover which agents are running in an enterprise ecosystem, understand when they were created and the risks they pose, and gain visibility into the tools and data they are accessing. In addition, the platform can be used to improve governance by enforcing policies on both the inputs and outputs of AI agents. These can be either predefined policies such as personally identifying information detection, or custom policies that can be defined using natural language.

If an agent makes a mistake such as deleting critical data, the Rubrik Agent Rewind component of the platform can be used to undo these actions and recover any data directly from a backup, the company said. The platform is meanwhile designed to be compatible across different agentic stacks.

Rubrik GM of AI Devvret Rishi said the main blocker to AI adoption is not the quality of models, but the lack of a consistent framework for governance or guardrails for managing AI risk.

“The goal of Rubrik Agent Cloud is to move governance from a theoretical bottleneck to a real-time enabler,” he said. “By baking guardrails directly into the infrastructure, we give teams the safety they need to innovate and deploy at speed.”

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