Rubrik CEO: Why Frontier AI Is A ‘Reckoning For The Cybersecurity Industry’
Rubrik CEO: Why Frontier AI Is A ‘Reckoning For The Cybersecurity Industry’
Publish Date: 2026-06-30 16:29:00
Source Domain: www.crn.com
‘In the age of AI, you will have continuous attacks, and you need continuous recovery and patching. All the old paradigms will change,’ Rubrik co-founder and CEO Bipul Sinha tells CRN.
Sinha On The Record
While it’s been evident for years that prevention and detection alone are not enough for effective cybersecurity, the arrival of ultra-powerful frontier AI models is making this plainer than ever, according to Rubrik co-founder and CEO Bipul Sinha.
In an interview with CRN Tuesday, Sinha said it’s clear that with frontier AI models such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos—which are capable of chaining vulnerabilities and enabling attacks at unprecedented speed—the cybersecurity industry has now reached a critical turning point.
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Amid the simultaneous rise of AI-powered attacks and widespread deployment of potentially risky AI agents, customers are being forced like never before to rethink their cybersecurity approaches, Sinha said. Ultimately, cyber defense will increasingly shift away from a focus on stopping every breach, in favor of ensuring that organizations can recover and patch quickly enough to keep operating, he said. What this adds up to is nothing short of a massive “reckoning for the cybersecurity industry,” Sinha said.
“In the age of AI, you will have continuous attacks, and you need continuous recovery and patching,” he told CRN. “All the old paradigms will change.”
During the interview, Sinha also discussed Rubrik’s recent series of AI-focused announcements—including the vendor’s initiative to transform the Rubrik platform itself into an AI agent—as well as advancements on identity security including through the company’s acquisition of Strata.io earlier…
