Kavitha Mariappan, Rubrik
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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