The RSA Conference, held from March 23 – 26 in San Francisco, is one of the premier events in the cybersecurity industry, bringing together experts, thought leaders, and innovators to discuss the latest trends and solutions in cyber resilience and data protection.
The energy was palpable, the learning top-notch, and the city buzzing. With so much to see, including our ResOps Rumble and The Rumble After Party on Monday evening, we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss these exciting announcements from Commvault.
Key Takeaways
- Commvault earned major industry recognition with a Global InfoSec Award for innovation in cyber resilience.
- Expanded threat hunting capabilities help organizations detect risks in backups and recover clean data faster.
- New data and AI security enhancements help extend visibility, classification, and governance across structured and unstructured data.
- Integration with Microsoft Security helps enable faster, coordinated threat detection and recovery workflows.
- Strategic partnerships and industry initiatives highlight a shift toward unified resilience operations as a core security discipline
- Commvault wins the 2026 Market Disruptor Cyber Resilience Global InfoSec Award.
After being named Outstanding in the Cyber Resilience category at the 2025 Global InfoSec Awards, we have accelerated our innovation roadmap, redefining cyber resilience beyond traditional backup and recovery to help address the realities of today’s AI-driven threat landscape.
This year, Global InfoSec has recognized Commvault as Market Disruptor in the cyber resilience category. We provide a unified cyber resilience platform designed to deliver AI-enabled data protection, proactive threat detection, advanced ransomware recovery, and a single operational view across enterprise environments.
Unlike other solutions, Commvault® Cloud helps empower customers to protect, recover, and manage their data, applications, and production workloads – across on-premises, public, private, hybrid, SaaS, and multi-cloud environments.
On the topic of market disruption and innovation, we have made a few major announcements leading up to the conference.
- Commvault Announces Expanded Threat Hunting Capabilities
We recently announced expanded threat hunting capabilities within Commvault Cloud Threat Scan. The enhancements help organizations rapidly identify risks within backup environments and recover validated clean data, helping reduce reinfection risks and prolonged downtime.
To address this challenge, Commvault now delivers two complementary scanning modes within Commvault Cloud Threat Scan:
- Hyper Threat Hunting helps enable targeted searches across backup data using threat hunting artifacts such as hashes and YARA rules to identify known indicators of compromise at scale. Hash-based hunting helps provide fast, index-based detection, while YARA-based analysis helps support more targeted pattern matching for deeper investigation.
- Deep Inspection provides layered file-level analysis using malware signatures, machine learning, heuristic analysis, and AI-enabled encryption detection to help uncover known threats, suspicious variants, and ransomware related activity that may evade exact-match indicators alone.
Together, these detection modes allow close collaboration across incident response and recovery teams to isolate affected data and help make informed recovery decisions. They can schedule recurring scans for continuous monitoring or conduct targeted searches during active incident response scenarios, helping provide flexibility for both ongoing protection and time-sensitive response.
- Commvault Announces an Expansion of Data and AI Security Capabilities
On the same day, we announced an expansion of data and AI security capabilities within Commvault Cloud, enabled via our recent acquisition of Satori. The advancements extend data discovery, classification, and risk assessment into structured data environments and introduce real-time access governance for structured databases, including vector databases used in AI applications. These innovations expand Commvault’s existing data security posture management functionality for unstructured data, while data access governance adds real-time control of structured data access.
These advancements also unify visibility by identifying sensitive data, surfacing exposure and policy violations, and consolidating risk insights to help organizations prioritize remediation based on impact. This helps yield improved resilience, prioritized risk remediation, support for compliance, and reduced data exposure to help strengthen resilience across both production and backup data.
- Commvault Announces an Expanded Integration with Microsoft Security
On the first morning of the conference, we announced an expanded integration with Microsoft Security to better connect threat detection with trusted recovery. The new integration uses Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Security Copilot, and the Commvault Cloud platform to streamline resilience operations (ResOps) and enable real-time data insights, helping organizations move quickly from identifying a threat to validating and restoring clean data faster and with greater confidence.
This new integration helps enable coordinated workflows between security and recovery teams. Security alerts from Commvault Cloud are ingested into Microsoft Sentinel data lake where security operations center analysts can enrich these incidents with partner intelligence to access impact and validate scope. In the coming quarters, these insights can help drive automated, policy-based recovery workflows to accelerate and orchestrate clean recovery. You can learn more from our blog here.
- NetApp and Commvault Advance Cyber Resilience with Strategic Alliance
On the topic of alliances, we also announced a strategic alliance with NetApp® to deliver a powerful, integrated solution for enterprise data protection and cyber resilience. The unified solution enables resilience, security, and rapid recovery for customers across on-premises and cloud environments, helping give organizations confidence that their data is available, immutable, and recoverable.
This alliance addresses a critical need for scaling resilience via unified cyber detection and ransomware recovery. By combining Commvault’s leading resilience, protection, and recovery capabilities with NetApp’s enterprise-grade data platform with built-in intelligence and AI-enable ransomware detection, together we’re creating a highly differentiated, end-to-end cyber resilience solution.
- TIME + Commvault CISO of the Year
Last but not least in a newsworthy few weeks, we are very excited to announce the launch of the inaugural TIME and Commvault CISO of the Year Award. The branded award, selected by Commvault and a panel of industry experts, recognizes enterprise security leaders who are not only defending against cyber threats but also redefining resilience in an increasingly complex threat landscape.
The CISO of the Year Award recognizes leaders who are transforming cybersecurity into a driver of trust, operational strength, and long-term resilience. They embrace critical practices and emerging disciplines, including ResOps, which is rapidly becoming a core discipline for modern enterprise security.
Nominations for the CISO of the Year Award will be accepted by Commvault from March 23 through June 20, 2026. Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of industry experts. The panel and Commvault will choose finalists and the winning CISO of the Year based on pre-defined criteria. You can read more about the criteria on the nominations page.
Commvault Cyber Resilience a Highlight of RSAC
RSAC 2026 made one thing clear: Cyber resilience is no longer a future aspiration – it’s a present-day mandate. From industry recognition to expanded threat hunting, deeper data and AI security, and stronger ecosystem integrations, Commvault continues to push the boundaries of what organizations can expect from a modern resilience platform.
These announcements reflect a broader shift toward unifying security, data protection, and recovery into a cohesive strategy that helps organizations act faster, respond smarter, and recover with confidence in the face of evolving threats.
As the threat landscape grows more complex, the ability to not only detect and defend but also recover with great confidence is becoming a defining competitive advantage. The innovations highlighted at RSAC – alongside strategic partnerships and recognition of industry leaders – underscore Commvault’s commitment to enabling that outcome.
If RSAC is any indication of where the industry is headed, ResOps will continue to take center stage, and organizations that embrace this approach will be well positioned to navigate whatever comes next.
FAQs
Q: What are the new threat hunting capabilities Commvault introduced?
A: Commvault introduced Hyper Threat Hunting and Deep Inspection within its Threat Scan solution. These features combine fast detection with advanced analysis to help identify both known and emerging threats in backup data.
Q: How do Commvault’s new data and AI security capabilities benefit organizations?
A: The enhancements to Commvault’s data and AI security capabilities expand visibility into sensitive data across structured and unstructured environments. They also add real-time access governance, helping organizations reduce risk and improve compliance.
Q: What is the significance of the Microsoft Security integration with Commvault Cloud?
A: The integration helps connect threat detection with recovery by linking Commvault Cloud with Microsoft Sentinel and Security Copilot. This is designed to enable faster decision-making and more automated recovery processes.
Q: What does the Commvault and NetApp alliance bring to customers?
A: The alliance combines Commvault’s resilience platform with NetApp’s data infrastructure and AI-enabled ransomware detection. This creates a unified solution designed to deliver stronger data protection and faster recovery across environments.
Q: What is the TIME and Commvault CISO of the Year Award?
A: The TIME + Commvault CISO of the Year award recognizes a security leader who exemplifies modern resilience leadership through a ResOps approach.
This program celebrates CISOs who treat resilience as a core business capability not just a technical function, those bridging security, IT, and operations to enable their organizations to recover quickly, operate confidently, and innovate without increasing risk.
The honoree selected by Commvault will be featured in a TIME branded article and video, with additional recognition across TIME and Commvault channels. The honoree will also be invited to Commvault’s annual SHIFT event.