My main use case for Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct is taking real-time actions to see how they are responding if an agent is working in a certain behavior and how it's going if an agent is misbehaving. It provides a centralized view of agent activity and discovers agent interaction with data and identity.
Reduced manual monitoring and now gain real-time insight into agent behavior and governance
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
A specific scenario where Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct was really helpful in my environment is that since we are using it for a long time, it provides us a well for monitoring and governance for the workflows we use in the current project. What stands out is the amount of context available on the agent actions rather than simply generating another security alert. It focuses and gives us a report including continuous monitoring with evaluation, policy enforcement, and remediation. Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct's Sage engine is designed to prevent and provide intent-based governance for the agent actions. This is why we are using it and this is how it is helping.
Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct offers multiple important features, but the most important feature which I love is the agent monitor which allows us to automatically discover the agents and gives us visibility into their activity in real time. The second is the agent inventory and risk profiling, which helps us identify which agents are active in real time and which ones require closer attention. Additionally, one of the features that helps us is data and identity visibility, allowing us to see what information an agent is accessing and which identity it interacts with. Moreover, the immutable audit trail is very useful when investigating why an agent performs a particular action.
Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct's agent monitor has made my work easier and more efficient, as it is very useful when we have to see the overall agentic monitor of the organization. To understand it better, we can just go there and check what is the activity, how many agents are active, who is working, and who is misbehaving. Sometimes they take commands from other agents, which is not expected. It gives us clarity over the agents and also helps us create proper ROI reports, ensuring that the agents are performing in the right direction with minimal cost.
What needs improvement?
Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct is working as expected, and I cannot come up with any improvements. It has given us a great return.
Before we take aggressive blocking rules, there is a risk of creating unnecessary friction for legitimate AI workflows. As Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct matures over time, it is relatively new compared to older players, and it is still growing. The platform can definitely work on the integrations and the policy configuration time to decrease whatever it is taking. The results it is providing are exceptional, so there is no problem.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct for more than three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct is definitely a stable solution as we did not face any challenges in its monitoring or agent tracking capabilities.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct's scalability is really good.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct is exceptional. We had an interaction last week, and they resolved the query in thirty to forty minutes.
How was the initial setup?
Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct was deployed as a cloud deployment in my environment. The experience was straightforward, although it required more than a typical SaaS monitoring tool. The important part was that mapping our AI agents, environments, identities, and applications was relatively easy, and the parts were configured easily. It is designed as an enterprise control layer across even a traditional endpoint product. Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct's biggest deployment effort was for governance design and deciding which actions should be monitored, allowed, or blocked. This was all completed within a week, making the deployment good and straightforward.
What was our ROI?
Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct has positively impacted my organization by showing at least a seventy to eighty percent reduction in manual effort for agent monitoring and investigating, which is exceptional. We are saving a lot of time, with a major impact translating to around forty to sixty hours saved per month for security and platform teams. This equates to saving over six hundred hours of operational effort. Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct has also helped us reduce the project cost by at least three thousand to four thousand dollars, which has been significant. The bigger financial benefit is avoiding the potential cost of manually investigating and recurring from unwanted information. I would treat these numbers as environment-specific as it really depends upon the type of environment you are working on and the number of agents being monitored.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Anyone looking for an exceptionally well agent tracker cum dashboard at a really good cost compared to other solutions such as Microsoft Power View should definitely consider Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct. It is a cost-effective and resource-effective solution.
What other advice do I have?
Rubrik NAS Cloud Direct has changed the day-to-day work for my security and platform teams due to the visibility of the dashboards, allowing them to monitor everything in a single dashboard without having to navigate multiple locations. It provides a clear view without manual intervention between the processes, and it functions as well as any other major solutions working in a similar space. I would rate this review five out of five stars.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
