Commvault has announced highly differentiated capabilities with its Cleanroom Recovery offering that usher in a new era in end-to-end recovery following cyberattacks.
Studies show that it takes enterprises 24 days, on average, to recover after a cyber incident.[1] Much of that time is not only spent recovering the data, but the infrastructure – databases, applications, and operating systems – that power and run the data. Commvault accelerates the infrastructure recovery process by bringing what’s called “Factory Reset” to the company’s Cleanroom Recovery technology.
With Factory Reset, which is generally available today, after an attack takes place, companies can rapidly restore their infrastructure within a cleanroom, using a pre-defined, validated, clean image, and, unlike traditional resets, offers a customizable recovery point-in-time.
This advancement, which is also referred to as “pave / repave,” is significant for a few reasons. First, companies don’t have to worry about restoring infrastructure that’s tainted by ransomware. The image is hardened and verified in advance. Second, once the infrastructure is restored, organizations can quickly rehydrate those systems with data, helping to speed up the overall recovery process. Third, with Factory Reset, administrators can focus on validating recovered data in the cleanroom instead of worrying about the underlying infrastructure.
Commvault is also bringing its threat scanning capabilities to Cleanroom Recovery. With Commvault Cloud Threat Scan, organisations can scan their recovered data in a cleanroom as another way of making sure their data is clean. This gives security and IT teams an added layer of confidence and can help enterprises remain in a state of continuous business after bad actors strike.
[1] Petrosyan, A. (2024, April 12). Length of impact after a ransomware attack U.S. Q1 2020- Q2 2022. Statista. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1275029/length-of-downtime-after-ransomware-attack-us/