CORE Media, in association with Rubrik, organized an exclusive closed-door session on ‘Cyber Suraksha: Building Trust, Resilience and Digital Sovereignty’, highlighting how in an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape, where shifts are expected every quarter —there is a critical opportunity for organizations to strengthen resilience and build greater trust with customers.
With years of frontline experience in defence, the importance of a secure transformation journey has been deeply reinforced. Significant investments have been made in cyber resilience, with Rubrik playing a key role in enabling automated transformation where organizations increasingly demand agility. This has been complemented by strategic investments across customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain systems, and disaster recovery frameworks. Together, these efforts align with the broader shift toward digital transformation driven by cloud adoption, workflow automation, and the evolution into fully integrated digital enterprises.
AI transformation is rapidly evolving through large language models (LLMs), small language models (SLMs), and autonomous agents, but this acceleration also brings a significant amplification of risks. Organizations today must navigate vulnerabilities arising from automation — ranging from natural disasters and human error to hardware failures while also addressing growing cybersecurity technical debt that may even require building entirely new applications. In parallel, the increasing complexity of cloud micro configurations, coupled with AI-driven environments, introduces the risk of rogue agents, making governance, resilience, and proactive risk management more critical than ever.
The expanding attack surface is exposing organizations to unprecedented cyber risks. Insights from over 1,600 CIOs and CISOs reveal that nearly 90% have experienced a cyberattack in recent years, underscoring the scale of the threat landscape. Alarmingly, 89% of those impacted by ransomware admitted to paying to recover their data, highlighting the criticality of preparedness and response strategies. Identity-driven attacks have emerged as a dominant concern, with 90% of leaders identifying them as the top threat to their organizations. Furthermore, the intensity of attacks continues to rise, with 11% of respondents reporting that they faced more than 100 cyberattacks in just the past year.
Agentic AI is projected to unlock significant economic value, with the potential to generate an additional $450–$650 billion in annual revenue by 2030.
The CXO challenge today is sharply evolving. CIOs are tasked with building resilient, platform-aligned architectures optimized for AI at scale, while CISOs must move beyond prevention to focus on rapid recovery. At the same time, boards are demanding clearer visibility into the financial impact of downtime, pushing leadership to quantify cyber risk in business terms. For CTOs, the priority lies in engineering failure-tolerant systems with strong data lineage, ensuring that resilience is not just a safeguard, but a driver of long-term profitability.
Worldwide end-user spending on information security is projected to reach $212 billion in 2025, underscoring the growing urgency around cyber resilience. However, as systems scale, resilience is no longer just about investment, it's about managing code complexity that has moved beyond human scale, making traditional patching approaches increasingly unsustainable and, in many ways, a losing game at scale.
AI agents are no longer experimental; they are becoming integral to enterprise operations. Today, nearly 33% of organizations allow agents to modify live code, trigger API workflows, rework transactions, access sensitive and critical data, and even interact with external users. However, this growing adoption comes with significant gaps. There are often no unified audit trail, limited traceability, and no reliable rollback mechanisms across systems. Agent activity remains largely unmonitored and unguarded, with no single pane of glass to provide visibility into which agents are running, how to recover from AI-driven actions, or how to continuously improve quality and control.
The discussion highlighted a critical shift from a prevention-first mindset to a recovery-first approach, raising key questions around the speed of recovery, the evolution of backup and restore mechanisms, and the need to significantly reduce recovery timelines by as much as 3–6 months. It was noted that nearly 80% of organizations are not holistically evaluating their recovery time objectives (RTOs); however, with platforms like Rubrik, recovery can now be achieved within hours, fundamentally transforming resilience strategies.
