Automation, Security Enhancements on Tap for Cleanroom Recovery

Commvault Cloud® Cleanroom™ Recovery creates an on-demand secure and isolated environment for organizations to prepare, validate, and execute cyber recovery – delivering continuous business. 

Amidst ongoing security breaches, it’s essential to rigorously test your cyber resilience strategy. Ransomware threats to backup systems can severely impact recovery efforts.

Our innovative Cleanroom Recovery enables organizations to test their recovery plans with confidence, perform secure forensic investigations, and production recovery. These use cases help organizations maintain continuous business operations.

As organizations grapple with the realities of ongoing cyberattacks, it’s going to be vital for them to identify their minimum viability – the core assets and processes that allow a return to operational status.

Cleanroom Recovery is a key offering helping organizations achieve continuous business in the midst of chaos. It enables dependable, swift recovery; minimized downtime; and a more efficient process.

Cleanroom Recovery has delivered or will soon deliver features that significantly enhance orchestration, security, and expansion, including:

• End-to-end Automated Cleanroom creation (Summer 2025).
• Threat Analysis in Azure Cleanroom using Threat Scan for virtual machines (VM).
• Expanding support for AWS as a Cleanroom site in both SaaS and software.

These features are significant because automating Cleanroom Recovery will enable one-click orchestration of networking resources, VMs, and security controls. This will significantly reduce any manual intervention.

Integrated runbooks trigger Cleanroom creation on demand, with built in validations. You can automate the creation of resource groups, establish a storage account, and configure networking components like virtual networks and security groups for a Cleanroom environment. This end-to-end automation will deliver significant speed, cost efficiency, help achieving compliance (NIST, DORA, etc.), and security enhancements.

With Threat Analysis in Cleanroom Recovery, customers can use Threat Scan for post-recovery threat analysis. Organizations can scan their recovered data using the latest updated signatures.

This gives security and IT teams an added layer of confidence and can help organizations remain in a state of continuous business after bad actors strike. Eliminating manual intervention will help reduce the window of vulnerability to emerging threats.

Cleanroom Recovery also now offers efficient data recovery into the AWS cloud. With automated instance conversion, customers can effortlessly convert instances from various environments into Amazon EC2 instances without manual intervention. This feature streamlines the recovery process and significantly reduces recovery time.

Customers can also take advantage of the repave capabilities to help rapidly restore infrastructure using a pre-validated, clean image when recovering into AWS. As a result, customers unlock an additional layer of security and confidence when recovering.

The latest enhancements within Cleanroom Recovery will enable users to:

• Leverage Cleanroom Recovery with end-to-end automation accelerating recovery tests and incident response.
• Upon VM restore, automatically invoke a full threat scan to flag any detected malware.
• Fully automate the conversion process from the source cloud environment to Amazon EC2. Customers are not required to perform any manual steps in the conversion process.

As Commvault continues to steer organizations in the direction of establishing what components make up a minimum viable company, Cleanroom Recovery will serve as a key cog solution in this instrumental process to achieve continuous business operations. Learn how it can help your organization here.