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Data security provider Druva has recently announced new innovations to help customers rapidly uncover insights, simplify decision-making, and respond quickly across cyber, compliance, and operational workflows.
One of those innovations is Dru MetaGraph, a secure, tenant-specific, graph-powered foundation for real-time metadata intelligence. This new solution makes all backup metadata queryable, contextual, and actionable for AI, transforming backup into an active intelligence layer for security, compliance, and operational decisions.
The other innovations include two new DruAI Agents, Insights Agent and Lifecycle Agent, which expand Druva’s suite of AI agents and build on the agentic AI capabilities the organization unveiled last month.
These new solutions run entirely within the Druva platform and only analyze metadata, not customer data. Each customer will have their own isolated MetaGraph within their tenant, featuring end-to-end encryption and compliance with global standards such as FedRAMP, SOC2, and GDPR. Druva states that customer data will never leave its boundaries and ensures that intelligence layers remain private and secure.
The Dru MetaGraph innovation by Druva aggregates all backup metadata, including file attributes, permissions, identity information, and privacy data, into a secure metadata layer combined with graph intelligence.
Dru MetaGraph eliminates a step that most teams must take in today’s environments: the need to extract, transform, and load backup metadata into separate systems before it can be analyzed, which adds time, complexity, and cost to understanding the data.
Instead, Dru MetaGraph makes metadata immediately usable for AI inside the Druva platform, utilizing end-to-end encryption and tenant-level isolation at no additional cost or complexity to the customer.
The architecture provides a single, queryable foundation for AI insights. The MetaGraph enables DruAI Agents to analyze metadata relationships and context in real-time, helping organizations pinpoint risks, streamline compliance reporting, and improve operational efficiency without moving or exposing sensitive data.
Druva adds more AI agents with Insight and Lifecycle
Druva continues to expand its ecosystem of AI agents by adding the Insights Agent and Lifecycle Agent to its collection.
These agents, working together, can reduce time-to-insight, providing teams with the context they need to stay ahead of emerging threats.
Providing real-time intelligence directly into dashboards and reports, the Dru Insights Agent distills complex data into clear, prioritized insights. Users receive at-a-glance summaries of the most significant risks, anomalies, and trends, rather than having to scan dozens of charts or alerts.
Additionally, the agent provides recommended next steps to address these issues before they escalate.
The Dru Lifecycle Agent, meanwhile, allows organizations to analyze metadata across the entire data lifecycle, from creation to archival, and uses those insights to take targeted actions on their data.
The agent utilizes natural language queries, enabling teams to quickly pinpoint stale or non-compliant data, surface orphaned accounts before they become risk vectors, and enforce retention policies at scale.
Contextualized answers with natural language queries
According to Druva, users can ask the Lifecycle Agent questions such as: “Show me data that is not compliant with PCI retention adherence,” or “Who is holding sensitive corporate data in individual accounts?”
The agent will then translate these questions into queries against the MetaGraph and return contextual answers to help teams move directly from discovery to action.
The Lifecycle Agent enables users to turn queries into ongoing visualizations and dashboards, as well. After a query response, DruAI can present users with the option to build personalized views of their dashboards, refresh them over time, and create a dynamic, customizable workspace for monitoring compliance, risk, or operational trends.
The Insights Agent is generally available today, and the Lifecycle Agent will be available at a future date.
Just last month, Druva announced new AI agents to simplify cyber resilience. Read more about the expansion of DruAI and how the new capabilities help automate critical tasks.
