Commvault has unveiled Active Directory Pre Recover, an innovative solution aimed at significantly reducing the recovery time for Active Directory (AD) in the event of cyberattacks.
Leveraging existing Commvault technologies like Cleanroom and Threat Scan, this new offering allows businesses to cleanly recover AD in minutes rather than hours.
Advancements in Active Directory Recovery
The Active Directory Pre Recover solution creates a secure, isolated copy of AD in a Cleanroom environment, allowing rapid failover when disruptions occur. Instead of waiting for a total forest recovery or dealing with complicated identity synchronization processes, organizations can promptly switch to this clean copy, ensuring business continuity.
By employing Threat Scan, Commvault ensures continuous scanning of AD backups to keep the standby copy free from malware.
Responding to Rising Cybersecurity Threats
Active Directory Pre Recover offers significant benefits during cyber incidentsAs cyber threats increasingly target identity systems, organizations face growing pressure to restore services quickly and without the risk of reinfection. Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Chief Products Officer at Commvault, emphasized that "Identity is foundational to every enterprise application, user, and business process."
He noted that Commvault has reduced identity recovery times significantly, now achieving near-real-time availability for critical business systems during cyber events.
Ensuring Operational Continuity
The Commvault Active Directory Pre Recover offers significant benefits during cyber incidents. With the AD standby copy stored in a Cleanroom, organizations can maintain trusted access to critical systems even if production identity services are compromised.
This minimizes disruptions to applications and infrastructure, avoiding the complexities of replicating accounts in alternate systems or waiting for a complete forest restore.
Availability and Access
Active Directory Pre Recover will soon be accessible for early use as part of Commvault's Identity Resilience portfolio. Enterprise AD customers will receive it with their existing licenses, which include a lite version of Cleanroom.
This service will be distributed globally through Commvault's partner network, reinforcing its commitment to enhancing cybersecurity resilience for organizations worldwide.
Commvault, a pioneer in unified resilience at enterprise scale, today announced Commvault Active Directory Pre Recover.
This new solution, which utilizes existing Commvault technologies – including Commvault Cleanroom and Threat Scan – to reduce the time it takes to cleanly recover Active Directory (“AD”) from hours to minutes.
About Active Directory Pre Recover
Active Directory Pre Recover creates a clean, standby copy of AD in an isolated, air-gapped Cleanroom environment. When disaster or disruption strikes, rather than waiting for a full forest recovery, or relying on complicated identity synchronization, organizations can fail over in minutes to this clean copy and keep the business running. Commvault also utilizes Threat Scan to continuously scan AD backups so the standby copy is free of malicious content.
This innovation comes as identity systems have become a primary target for attackers and organizations are facing increased pressure to restore rapidly and without risk of re-infection.
Cyber recovery
“Identity is foundational to every enterprise application, user, and business process,” said Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Chief Products Officer, Commvault. “Commvault has already made significant progress reducing identity recovery times from weeks to hours, and now we are extending that progress toward near-real-time availability. The result is faster access to critical business systems and greater confidence during cyber recovery.”
Additional benefits of Commvault Active Directory Pre Recover
- Keep critical operations running during a cyber incident: With the AD standby copy stored in Cleanroom, organizations can have peace of mind that, in the event production identity services are unavailable, trusted access to critical systems can continue.
- Minimize application and infrastructure disruption: Applications can continue authenticating against trusted identity services without requiring complicated replication of accounts in alternate Identity and Access Management Systems or waiting for a full forest restore to complete.
Availability
Commvault Active Directory Pre Recover will be available for early access in the coming months, delivered as part of Commvault's Identity Resilience portfolio. All enterprise AD customers will receive Active Directory Pre Recover as part of their existing license, including a lite version of Cleanroom. This offering will be available globally through Commvault's partner ecosystem.
