Key Takeaways
- Streamlined process: Simplifies recovery through enhanced threat detection and validation.
- Integrated experience: One simple process from threat identification to production recovery.
- Readiness: Configure, plan, and test cyber recovery plans to uncover gaps.
- Rapid detection and validation: Quickly identify clean points and validate recovery.
- Confident recovery: Helps organizations confidently recover clean data, apps, and infrastructure.
In today’s landscape of relentless cyber threats, organizations are grappling with an unprecedented challenge: maintaining business continuity in the face of potential data loss and system compromise. The recent surge in sophisticated ransomware attacks has underscored the critical need for robust cyber resilience strategies that go beyond traditional backup and recovery methods.
Commvault Cloud Cleanroom Recovery introduces an innovative approach to this challenge. By creating an on-demand, secure, and isolated environment, organizations can test their recovery plans, conduct thorough forensic investigations, and execute production recoveries without risking further disruption to their operations.
Cyber Recovery Readiness/Testing + Forensics = Optimal Recovery
Ransomware threats targeting backup systems have become increasingly common, highlighting the vulnerabilities in conventional recovery processes. It’s no longer sufficient to simply have a recovery plan in place; organizations must rigorously test and validate their strategies to prepare to withstand real-world cyberattacks.
Cleanroom Recovery can help organizations seeking to maintain uninterrupted operations amid disruption. Testing your cyber recovery plans is a huge part of achieving true cyber resilience. By facilitating rapid and reliable recovery, minimizing downtime, and streamlining processes, testing plays a vital role to strengthen business continuity.
As organizations continue to prioritize robust cyber recovery plans, the importance of rigorous testing cannot be overstated. With effective testing protocols in place, organizations can identify vulnerabilities and verify their recovery strategies remain aligned with evolving cyber threats.
Once an organization has set up regular malware scanning of all backups and tested its plans, it can conduct forensics analysis to identify the root cause of an attack and investigate any affected systems. These two use cases increase confidence in executing an optimal recovery.
What’s New in Cleanroom Recovery?
Building on its foundation, the latest Cleanroom Recovery innovations are introducing significant enhancements that further strengthen cyber recovery capabilities. These advancements deliver new capabilities that help organizations protect their critical infrastructure and data.
Recent and upcoming developments have bolstered Cleanroom Recovery’s capabilities in orchestration, security, and scalability, including early access to:
- Cleanroom creation automation: Automate cleanroom deployment, cross hypervisor recovery and threat scanning inside the cleanroom to remove manual intervention. (Generally Available)
- Runbook experience: Ability to create multiple runbooks for critical assets for different use cases. Runbooks provide step-by-step execution playbooks with optional manual steps. (Early Access)
- Expanded workload support: You can recover Active Directory forest along with VMs and files into a cleanroom for end-to-end application validation. (Early Access)
- On-premises deployment capabilities: You now can use Cleanroom Recovery to recover critical application into an isolated recovery environment in an on-premises data center using air-gapped Hyperscale X (Early Access)
These advancements illustrate a continued focus on expanding the features, capabilities, and scale of Cleanroom Recovery. This is the next phase in Cleanroom Recovery’s evolution. The solution helps provide customers with enhanced efficiency, scalability, and adaptability, with the flexibility to deploy isolated cleanroom in cloud and on-premises.
Cleanroom Recovery helps enable customers to effortlessly spin up automated cleanrooms with streamlined runbooks and features threat scanning capabilities for comprehensive threat detection and recovery.
With this new evolution, organizations will be enabled to quickly and safely test their cyber recovery plans, validate applications, and execute a confident cyber recovery. Commvault is delivering one integrated experience from identifying threats to production recovery.
FAQs
Q: What is Cleanroom Recovery, and why is it important?
A: Cleanroom Recovery is a secure, isolated environment that enables organizations to test recovery plans and conduct forensic analysis without risking production systems. This helps organizations maintain continuous business operations and improve cyber resilience against modern ransomware threats.
Q: How does Cleanroom Recovery enhance cyber recovery readiness?
A: By automating cleanroom creation to conduct recovery testing and enabling forensic investigation, it helps organizations validate their recovery strategies, uncover vulnerabilities, and execute faster, more confident recoveries after cyber incidents.
Q: What are the main new features in the Cleanroom Recovery release?
A: Key innovations include automated cleanroom deployment, new runbook capabilities for multiple recovery scenarios, support for Active Directory recovery, and the ability to deploy in on-premises data centers with air-gapped Hyperscale X.
Q: How does Cleanroom Recovery improve security during recovery operations?
A: It isolates the recovery environment, scans for threats pre-/post-recovery, provides controlled orchestration, and helps reduce the risk of reinfection or unauthorized access during recovery.
Q: Can Cleanroom Recovery be deployed both on-premises and in the cloud?
A: Yes, organizations now can deploy Cleanroom Recovery in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing flexibility for hybrid infrastructures and diverse security requirements.
Q: Who benefits most from Cleanroom Recovery?
A: Enterprises seeking to strengthen their cyber resilience, particularly those facing ransomware risks or complex recovery needs, gain value from its automation, scalability, and integrated testing capabilities.
Toussaint Brock is a Product Marketing Manager at Commvault.
