In this theCUBE exclusive from the Rubrik "Resilience for Everything: Cloud, Identity, AI" interview series, Rubrik CTO and co-founder Arvind Nithrakashyap joins Michael Ortega, director of AI marketing, to unpack 2026 predictions for cyber resilience in an AI-accelerated threat landscape. Nithrakashyap explains how coding agents and deepfakes are lowering the barrier for attackers, making “assume breach” more urgent than ever, pushing organizations to rethink recovery as a core security discipline, not an afterthought.
The conversation also dives into why identity will dominate CISO priorities as agentic AI drives a surge of non-human identities – and how visibility across sprawling identity providers becomes critical to detecting privilege escalation and long-dwell intrusions. Nithrakashyap outlines the governance controls needed to keep agents in check (what they access, what they can do and policy-based enforcement), then connects it all to multicloud realities. As AI workloads chase scarce GPUs, enterprises will need a unified control plane and a single metric that matters most – speed to recovery – to stay operational when things go wrong.
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Arvind Nithrakashyap, Rubrik
In this interview from Rubrik’s “Resilience for Everything: Cloud, Identity, AI” series, theCUBE’s Savannah Peterson sits down with Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha to unpack what “resilience” really means in an era of agentic AI. Sinha explains how Rubrik is approaching AI transformation with guardrails – including visibility into which agents are running, what they’re doing and how to recover quickly when things go wrong – so organizations can move faster without losing control.
The conversation also explores the new risk profile of AI-powered operations: agents that can assume identities, execute business processes and amplify impact at unprecedented speed. Sinha shares why governance, accuracy and cost control become the make-or-break factors when enterprises move from pilots to production, plus what Rubrik is seeing in the threat landscape as AI accelerates attack volume and sophistication.
In this theCUBE exclusive from the Rubrik "Resilience for Everything: Cloud, Identity, AI" interview series, Rubrik CTO and co-founder Arvind Nithrakashyap joins Michael Ortega, director of AI marketing, to unpack 2026 predictions for cyber resilience in an AI-accelerated threat landscape. Nithrakashyap explains how coding agents and deepfakes are lowering the barrier for attackers, making “assume breach” more urgent than ever, pushing organizations to rethink recovery as a core security discipline, not an afterthought.
