Rubrik Principal Technologist Cal Al-Dhubaib joins Inside the ICE House to discuss how enterprises can securely adopt AI as autonomous agents gain greater access to data, systems, and code. He explains how Rubrik Agent Cloud helps organizations monitor AI activity, govern agent behavior, and recover from unintended actions. Al-Dhubaib also shares how Rubrik is using AI internally while balancing innovation with security, oversight, and trust.

Episode 548: Rubrik's Cal Al-Dhubaib on Securing AI Agents Without Slowing Innovation

Inside the ICE House

Welcome to another episode of the Inside the ICE House podcast. Today's guest is Cal Al-Dhubaib. He is the Principal Technologist at Rubrik. Cal, thanks so much for joining us inside the ICE House. Happy to have you here. Thanks, Eric. Great to be here. So Cal, Rubrik recently launched Rubrik Agent Cloud for Anthropics, Cloud Code, and Cloud Cowork. So as AI agents increasingly write and deploy code on their own, what challenge did Rubrik see in the markets that made something like this just so important?

So the controls that we've relied on just even for the last few years, let alone the last few decades of security were never built for probabilistic software. And these AI systems, they behave in really different ways. And that doesn't mean that they're bad, but you can't just control them with static rules. And I'll give you one of the fundamental challenges here. These AI systems are only really useful when you start to give them permissions.

So you need to give them read and write access to your data and your systems and your files. But that means then you have to have an ability to then inspect its actions and say, okay, does this read actually make sense for the action it's trying to do? Or might this lead to some other intended or unintended consequence? And so that was the problem that we set up to solve with Rubrik Agent Cloud. How do we evolve traditional controls to be able to account for the ways in which these systems can behave?

Episode 548: Rubrik's Cal Al-Dhubaib on Securing AI Agents Without Slowing Innovation

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.

Episode 548: Rubrik's Cal Al-Dhubaib on Securing AI Agents Without Slowing Innovation

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.