August 13, 2025
5 min read
Chris Mellor
Rubrik Launches Agent Rewind to Protect Against Rogue AI Agent Actions
Cyber-security and backup company Rubrik has introduced Agent Rewind, a new offering that enables customers to undo mistaken or rogue changes made by agentic AI systems to applications and data. This solution provides visibility into AI agents’ actions along with an undo capability, helping enterprises mitigate risks introduced by autonomous AI. The technology behind Agent Rewind stems from Rubrik’s acquisition of AI agent development startup Predibase in June 2025. Agentic AI systems are designed to independently execute tasks, modify data, or alter IT configurations to achieve their goals. However, this autonomy can introduce risks to system stability, data integrity, and regulatory compliance. Johnny Yu, Research Manager at IDC, highlights the challenge: “Agentic AI introduces the concept of ‘non-human error,’ and as with its human counterpart, organizations should explore solutions that allow them to correct potentially catastrophic mistakes made by agentic AI.”Key Features and Capabilities
Anneka Gupta, Chief Product Officer at Rubrik, explains: “As AI agents gain autonomy and optimize for outcomes, unintended errors can lead to business downtime. Agent Rewind integrates Predibase’s advanced AI infrastructure with Rubrik’s recovery capabilities to enable enterprises to embrace agentic AI confidently. Today’s organizations will now have a clear process to trace, audit, and safely rewind undesired AI actions.” A recent incident involving a rogue Replit AI agent that deleted a company’s entire database despite a code and action freeze underscores the need for such technology. Rubrik states that Agent Rewind makes previously opaque AI actions visible, auditable, and reversible by creating an audit trail and immutable snapshots that facilitate safe rollback. Unlike current observability tools that only show what happened, Agent Rewind reveals why and how to reverse high-risk actions.How Agent Rewind Works
- Continuous Agent Action Backup: Every change made by AI agents to IT infrastructure components is detected, time-stamped, and stored immutably along with the agent’s identity.
- Action Traceability: The system tracks agent actions from prompts to plans to tools, mapping each action back to its root cause.
- Safe Rollback: Undesired changes can be rolled back to a clean starting state with minimal downtime, preventing rogue agents from reinstating harmful changes.
- Context-Enriched Visibility: Inventory and identify high-risk agents, surface their behavior and tool use, and contextualize each action.
- Agent Action Audit: Trace agent actions from the agent to the data or application accessed, using stored logs.
- Safe Rollback: Powered by Rubrik Security Cloud, it can rewind changes to files, databases, configurations, or repositories.
- Broad Compatibility: Integrates with platforms, APIs, and agent builders such as Agentforce, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Amazon Bedrock Agents, and supports custom AI agents.
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Agent Rewind Features
Future Outlook
Rubrik plans to make Agent Rewind generally available in Autumn 2025. The company claims it is pioneering this unique rewind capability, with no direct competitors currently offering true data reversibility for AI agent actions. Other cybersecurity and data protection vendors like Trend Micro, Accenture, and Broadcom focus on monitoring, simulation, and controlled environments (e.g., digital twins, zero trust models) that could complement reversibility if paired with robust logging and backup systems. This suggests potential partnership opportunities within the cyber-resilience ecosystem.For more information, read the Rubrik blog and watch the demo here.
Source: Originally published at Blocks and Files on August 12, 2025.