Rubrik Chosen by Amarica’s Workwear Brand Carhartt

America’s workwear brand Carhartt, Inc. has consolidated multiple legacy backup tools with Rubrik Security Cloud to achieve cyber resilience.

After moving to Rubrik, Carhartt realized more than 50% in monthly cost savings, while improving its data security capabilities.

“Data resilience is key to the continued security and success of our business. We work hard to ward off intruders but we have to operate on the assumption that they will find a way in,” said Michael Karasienski, cloud platforms manager, Carhartt. “Rubrik Security Cloud restores data fast and without fail for both our cloud and on-premises environments. Rubrik plays a key role in building trust in our system with secure protocols and access controls; it isn’t just a data security solution, it’s peace of mind for our brand.“

Established in 1889, Carhartt has a rich heritage of developing rugged products for workers on and off the job. It honors hard work, approaching its business with the same honesty, dependability, and trust that its consumers display day-in and day-out.

Prior to Rubrik, it used a variety of different backup solutions across its operations. After an upgrade of a critical application failed, end user’s administrators discovered that that application data hadn’t been backed up, forcing the team to reconstruct more than 2 weeks’ worth of data manually. Furthermore, its team discovered malware in backups from its legacy tools, resulting in weeks of searching data sets to manually complete the investigation.

With Rubrik Security Cloud, Carhartt’s IT team can devote more time to other priorities – like business requests, incidents, and reducing technical debt – while saving more than 50% in operational costs each month. The company’s IT and security teams are also collaborating to reduce risk to the organization, zeroing in on malware and tying investigations into its security operations center.

“A highly interconnected business like Carhartt is responsible for mountains of sensitive data. Protecting that data is paramount to maintain customer trust and minimize business disruption,” said Anneka Gupta, chief product officer, Rubrik. “Outdated legacy technology was never built with security in mind, so organizations must turn to modernized platforms and zero-trust methodologies to defend their data. With a holistic solution like Rubrik Security Cloud, organizations like Carhartt know their business will be resilient in the face of any cyber threat.“

Carhartt utilizes numerous Rubrik products, including Anomaly Detection, Sensitive Data Monitoring, Threat Hunting, as well as its integration with Microsoft Sentinel.

Case study: Carhartt: Resilient Data for Resilient Workers