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Rubrik Identity Resilience
Identity is the surface attackers hit first — and when AD is down, nothing else recovers. Secure and recover AD and Entra ID, and Roll Forward to a clean state, not the compromise.
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Rubrik Identity Resilience protects the surface attackers hit first: identity. Active Directory and Entra ID are the keys to the kingdom — compromise them and an attacker owns everything — which is why the vast majority of breaches run through them. Rubrik secures and recovers the whole identity landscape (human and non-human identities), with posture monitoring to spot risky configurations before they're exploited, Identity Continuity (from the Strata.io acquisition) to keep authentication working during an outage, and an industry-first Identity Roll Forward that recovers identity to a clean, current state instead of restoring the compromise along with the data. Because when AD goes down, nothing else recovers until it's back.
The Rubrik platform family
This page covers Identity Resilience — the identity layer. The rest of the platform:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Identity Resilience — AD & Entra ID security + recovery
- Vendor
- Rubrik (founded 2014 · NYSE: RBRK · Palo Alto, CA)
- The target
- Identity — the #1 attacker entry point
- Covers
- Active Directory + Entra ID; human + non-human
- Posture
- Spot risky identity configs before exploitation
- Continuity
- Identity Continuity (Strata.io) — auth stays up
- The first
- Identity Roll Forward — recover clean, not compromised
- Why it matters
- When AD is down, nothing else recovers
- Licensing
- Per identity / directory subscription
- In India via
- TechBag — quotes, PoCs, GST invoicing, Tier-1 support
Understand identity resilience before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is identity resilience?
Securing and recovering the identity landscape — Active Directory and Entra ID, human and non-human — with posture monitoring, continuity during outages, and clean recovery.
Because identity is the surface attackers hit first, and when it's down, nothing else recovers.
Identity as plumbing vs identity as the attack surface — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Identity as an afterthought | Identity resilience (Rubrik) |
|---|---|---|
| The premise | Identity is IT plumbing | Identity is the #1 attack surface |
| AD restore | Brings back the compromise too | Roll Forward recovers clean |
| During an outage | No logins, business halts | Identity Continuity keeps auth up |
| Non-human identities | Unwatched, the pivot path | Covered in scope |
| The directories | AD or Entra, not both | Both, one product |
| Posture | Discovered after the breach | Monitored before it |
| The dependency | Data recovery assumes logins work | Identity recovered first |
| The discipline | A backup afterthought | Its own resilience product |
Adoption starts with posture (find the exposure) and proves out on a Roll Forward drill — clean recovery, rehearsed.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Posture Monitoring
Continuously assesses AD and Entra ID for risky configurations, excessive privileges and drift — finding the exposure before an attacker exploits it.
Identity Continuity
From the Strata.io acquisition — keeps authentication working during an identity-provider outage or attack, so the business doesn't stop when AD does.
Identity Roll Forward
Recovers identity to a clean, current state — not a restore that reintroduces the compromise along with yesterday's data.
Human + Non-Human
Covers user identities AND the service accounts, tokens and machine identities that proliferate and are so often the forgotten attack path.
Recovery Orchestration
Orchestrated recovery of the directory itself — because when AD is down, every other recovery waits on it coming back.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Protect, detect, recover.
Rubrik protects the surface attackers hit first — and recovers it clean, with authentication kept up throughout.
Identity Posture Monitoring
Continuously assesses AD and Entra ID for risky configs, over-privilege and drift — exposure found before exploitation.
Active Directory Protection
Securing the on-prem directory that's still the backbone — and the #1 target — of most enterprise estates.
Entra ID Protection
Securing the cloud identity provider — the other half of the hybrid identity reality, in the same product.
Non-Human Identities
Service accounts, tokens and machine identities — usually more numerous than humans, and the forgotten pivot path.
Identity Roll Forward
The industry-first: recover identity to a clean, current state — not a restore that reintroduces the compromise.
Identity Continuity
From Strata.io — keeps authentication working during an IdP outage or attack, so the business doesn't halt.
AD Object Recovery
Granular restore of directory objects — a deleted OU, a mangled group — the day-to-day ops win.
Directory Recovery Orchestration
Orchestrated recovery of the directory itself — because every other recovery waits on AD coming back.
Drift & Change Detection
Spots unexpected changes to identity configuration — the early signal of compromise or misconfiguration.
Privilege Analysis
Surfaces excessive and stale privileges — the over-permissioned accounts attackers escalate through.
Hybrid Identity Coverage
AD and Entra together in one product — matching the hybrid reality most tools handle only half of.
Data-Resilience Pairing
Identity recovered alongside data on one platform — the dependency handled together, one vendor.
Watch identity resilience in action
Why identity matters, the AD + Entra protection demo and AD object recovery.
Rubrik Identity Resilience Explained
Why identity is the surface attackers hit first.
Identity Protection Demo: AD and Entra ID
Protecting both directories, end to end.
Active Directory Object Recovery Tool
Recovering AD objects — granular restore in action.
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Here’s what genuinely sets Rubrik Identity Resilience apart from the alternatives.
Identity is the first target, not the last
AD and Entra ID are the keys to the kingdom — compromise them and the attacker is everyone. That's why the overwhelming majority of breaches run through identity. Protecting it isn't one control among many; it's the control the rest depend on, and Rubrik built a product for exactly that surface.
Roll Forward: recover clean, not compromised
The industry-first innovation. A naive AD restore brings back yesterday's directory — including the backdoor the attacker planted. Identity Roll Forward recovers identity to a clean, current state, so you don't restore the compromise along with the data. That distinction is the difference between recovery and reinfection.
Continuity: the business doesn't stop
From the Strata.io acquisition — Identity Continuity keeps authentication working during an identity-provider outage or attack. When your IdP is down, users can't log in and the business halts; continuity means they still can, buying the time to recover.
The non-human identities too
Service accounts, tokens, machine identities — they proliferate, outnumber humans, and are the forgotten path attackers love. Identity Resilience covers the whole landscape, not just the user accounts you remember to protect.
When AD is down, nothing recovers
This is the dependency nobody plans for: your beautiful data-recovery plan assumes users can authenticate — but if AD is compromised or down, no one can log in to run it. Identity recovery is the prerequisite for every other recovery, which is why it's its own discipline.
Posture before the incident
The best identity recovery is not needing it — continuous posture monitoring finds the risky configs, the over-privileged accounts, the drift, before an attacker does. Prevention and recovery in one product for the surface that matters most.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Rubrik Identity Resilience journey looks like
Identity-exposure scoping
The AD/Entra estate, the non-human identity sprawl, and the recovery dependency your DR plan quietly assumes. TechBag scopes it free.
Posture assessment
Posture monitoring surfaces the risky configs, over-privileged and stale accounts — the exposure map before an incident.
The Roll Forward drill
Simulate an AD compromise and recover to a clean, current state — the industry-first recovery, rehearsed and proven.
Resilience steady state
Continuity configured, posture monitored, recovery rehearsed, paired with Rubrik data protection. TechBag manages the subscription in INR/GST.
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The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Our incident-response plan assumed people could log in. When AD was compromised, they couldn't — the whole plan stalled. Identity Resilience is the piece we didn't know was the linchpin.”
“Roll Forward is the feature. A normal AD restore would have brought back the attacker's backdoor with the data. Recovering to a clean, current state instead is the difference between recovery and reinfection.”
“Posture monitoring flagged over-privileged service accounts we'd lost track of — the exact non-human identities attackers pivot through. Found before, not after.”
“Identity Continuity kept authentication working during an IdP outage. Users kept logging in while we recovered. That bought us the time that saved the day.”
“Covering both AD and Entra ID from one product matched our hybrid reality — most tools do one or the other well, not both.”
“It complements dedicated ITDR tools like Semperis — evaluate whether you want it standalone or as part of the Rubrik platform. For us the platform pairing won.”
“The AD object-recovery tool made granular restores (a deleted OU, a mangled group) trivial — the day-to-day identity ops win, not just the catastrophe case.”
“Non-human identity coverage was the eye-opener — we had far more service accounts and tokens than humans, and no one was watching them.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the identity resilience market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Identity-Security Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Identity resilience on the data platform — this page's subject.
Recovery Depth × Continuity
The grid nobody publishes — how cleanly identity recovers vs whether authentication survives the outage.
Identity + data resilience pairing — the corner it owns.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Rubrik Identity vs the identity-security field
The ITDR specialists and the native providers — honest lanes; we’ll point you at Semperis when a standalone is the need.
| Dimension | Rubrik Identity | Semperis | Microsoft Entra | Quest / One Identity | Commvault (AD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage & focus | Identity resilience on the platform | The ITDR specialist | The native IdP | AD management veteran | AD backup module |
| AD + Entra coverage | Both, together | Both, deep | Entra-native | Both | AD-focused |
| Clean recovery (Roll Forward) | Industry-first | Post-breach recovery | Restore | Recovery | Restore |
| Identity Continuity (auth uptime) | Yes (Strata) | Some | Native HA | Limited | None |
| Non-human identities | In scope | Covered | Workload IDs | Some | Limited |
| Platform pairing (backup+data) | Native to Rubrik | Standalone | MS ecosystem | Standalone | Commvault platform |
| Best fit | Rubrik users wanting identity + data resilience together | ITDR-first specialists | All-Microsoft estates | AD-governance-heavy orgs | Commvault estates |
Which identity approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Rubrik Identity if…
- ✓You want identity AND data resilience on one platform
- ✓Roll Forward (recover clean, not compromised) matters
- ✓Identity Continuity — auth stays up in an outage — is key
- ✓AD + Entra hybrid coverage in one product fits your estate
Choose Semperis if…
- ✓You want a best-of-breed standalone ITDR specialist
Choose Entra add-ons if…
- ✓You're all-Microsoft and Entra-native
Choose Quest if…
- ✓AD governance heritage and management lead
Choose Commvault if…
- ✓You want AD protection inside your backup platform — hub live
What does an identity compromise cost you?
Drag the sliders (count identities protected; IT-hour cost as loaded security rate). Estimates assume ~2 hours per identity per year of posture, hardening and recovery-readiness work, with ~65% removed by continuous posture and orchestrated clean recovery — the avoided value (a halted business when AD is down) is the larger, unpriced win. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Identity Resilience prices per identity/directory. TechBag scopes AD + Entra + non-human coverage in one GST quote.
Identity posture
Best for finding exposure
- AD + Entra posture monitoring
- Risky configs & privilege drift
- Human + non-human coverage
+ Recovery & Roll Forward
Best for clean recovery
- Recover clean, not compromised
- AD object + directory orchestration
- The industry-first Roll Forward
+ Continuity & pairing
Best for full resilience
- Identity Continuity (Strata)
- Paired with data resilience
- TechBag scopes the whole posture
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
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The 8 questions to ask every identity-security vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Confirm your DR plan doesn't silently assume working logins — if AD is down, can anyone even run it? Identity recovery comes first.
Simulate an AD compromise and recover to a clean, current state — verify you don't restore the backdoor with the data.
Test that authentication stays up during a simulated IdP outage — the business shouldn't halt when AD does.
Have posture monitoring surface your service accounts, tokens and machine identities — usually far more than humans, and unwatched.
Verify both AD and Entra ID are covered in one product against your hybrid reality.
Review the risky-config findings — over-privilege, drift, stale accounts — the exposure to fix before an attacker finds it.
Evaluate identity + data resilience together on Rubrik vs a standalone ITDR (Semperis) — TechBag will be honest about the fit.
Test granular AD object recovery (a deleted OU/group) — the day-to-day ops win beyond the catastrophe case.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Rubrik Identity Resilience?
Scope a Roll Forward drill (recover AD clean, not compromised), check the dependency your DR plan assumes, or let a TechBag advisor map your identity exposure.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.