You’re a cybersecurity leader in your company. It’s 6:30 pm on a Friday before a long weekend. Just as you are about to board a plane for vacation with your family, your phone rings – it’s your SecOps team. Your IT systems around the world are starting to go unresponsive, and there are indications that you’re under a ransomware attack.
In that moment, the difference between chaos and control comes down to these key factors: how fast you respond and how cleanly you recover. A swift reaction might contain the damage. But if your recovery reintroduces infected data, you’re right back where you started.
Traditional backup and recovery strategies no longer work when staring down today’s threats. Organizations need a plan that pairs real-time threat detection with clean, validated recovery. This is the foundation of true cyber resilience. The equation is simple but powerful: Commvault® Cloud Threat Scan + Cleanroom™ Recovery = Cyber Confidence.
Ransomware-Angreifer werden immer raffinierter, während Unternehmen Mühe haben, mit ihnen Schritt zu halten. Laut einer Studie aus dem Jahr 2024 hat dieDie kürzeste Zeit zwischen Erkennung und Aufprall betrug 27 Minuten. That means it’s possible your organization will have less than half an hour from the first warning to potential system-wide paralysis.
In this high-stakes scenario, every minute matters. Each delay increases the risks for data loss, extended downtime, regulatory nightmares, and erosion of customer trust. In this playbook, we’ll show how Commvault helps you move from reactive recovery to confident, orchestrated response.
Was passiert nach dem Alarm?
When a cyberattack strikes, detection is just the beginning. The real test lies in what comes next: recovery. In theory, backups should be your safety net. But in practice, they can become silent carriers of infection. Since most bad actors target your data, restoring backups blindly carries inherent risks such as reintroducing malware into your environment.
That’s why modern recovery spots clean points for restore. It needs Threat Scan.
Threat Scan: Ihr zuverlässiger Partner bei der Datenrecovery
Commvault Cloud Threat Scan helps you to recover and restore clean data quickly, expertly avoiding threats and allowing you to automatically quarantine potentially malicious data. But what exactly is “malicious data”? And how can we tell if data is clean?
Anstatt jede Sicherung als vertrauenswürdig einzustufen, analysiert Threat Scan Datensicherungen kontinuierlich, um versteckte Bedrohungen aufzudecken. Dabei nutzt das Tool Anomalieerkennung, Malware-Scans, Verschlüsselungsanalysen und Signale von Drittanbietern, um Wiederherstellungspunkte mit hoher Zuverlässigkeit zu klassifizieren.
Hier sind die wichtigsten Features von Threat Scan:
- Anomaly detection: Customers generally backup their data periodically. Some may do it daily, whereas some might do it every other week. Threat Scan monitors for unusual patterns in backup activity – such as unexpected spikes in data volume, off-hour backup jobs, or sudden changes in data types. These anomalies often serve as early indicators of compromise.
- Erkennung verschlüsselter Daten: Eine der wichtigsten Säulen von Threat Scan ist die fortschrittliche Fähigkeit, durch Ransomware verschlüsselte Daten zu erkennen. Das System analysiert Dateimetadaten und Zufallsmuster, um Anzeichen einer böswilligen Verschlüsselung zu identifizieren.
Unlike traditional methods that rely solely on entropy, Threat Scan uses deeper file composition analysis to distinguish between legitimate encryption and ransomware activity. Trained on diverse datasets and encryption behaviors, it delivers fast detection with reduced false positives – even for emerging, zero-day threats. - Root-cause tracing and integrated malware scanning: Threat Scan doesn’t stop at detection – it traces infected files back to their source, helping teams isolate patient zero and understand the scope of the attack. This infecting file, also known as the source of encryption, is detected with the help of integrated industry-leading antivirus solutions.
- Integration in das Sicherheitsökosystem von Drittanbietern: Durch die Integration mit Partnern wie CrowdStrike, Darktrace, Cisco und Netskope kann Commvault Vorfälle von externen Sicherheitsplattformen erfassen und die betroffenen Geräte oder Daten als anfällig kennzeichnen. Diese erfassten Ereignisse werden dann auf der Commvault-Plattform in Verbindung mit den Assets oder Ressourcen angezeigt, bei denen der Vorfall aufgetreten ist. Dies verkürzt die Rückkopplungsschleife zwischen Erkennung und Recovery.
- Restore classification while backing up: As backups are created, data is automatically labeled as clean or compromised, forming a real-time recovery timeline. This helps enable teams to confidently select the right point to restore from.
Integration with SIEM & SOAR for Full Automation
In a true rapid-response scenario, speed and precision are integral to the safety of an organization’s invaluable data. Similarly, each event on the recovery journey from anomaly detection to infection identification is essential from a security standpoint.
Hence, Commvault provides the capability to share these critical security events with the security operations (SecOps) teams through SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) integrations and perform actions with SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) integrations.
First, as Threat Scan detects anomalies – malware, encryption events, or suspicious backup behaviors – it immediately sends security events to these platforms via dedicated connectors (SIEM and webhooks).
Next, through integrations with powerful SOAR platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Palo Alto Networks XSOAR, Commvault allows SecOps to gain actionable intelligence and automate response workflows using preconfigured playbooks (co-developed with Commvault) to take action – quarantining infected data, preserving backup versions, or triggering recovery workflows.
Cleanroom Recovery
Cleanroom Recovery is an on-demand secure and isolated environment for organizations to prepare, validate, and execute cyber recovery – delivering continuous business. With Cleanroom Recovery, organizations can confidently test cyber recovery plans, conduct secure forensic analysis, and deliver production recovery to help achieve continuous business following an attack.
When it comes to restoring data, especially in production environments, even “clean” isn’t clean enough. Despite already being marked as clean or compromised, customers still will want their own security teams to analyze the data and run the desired forensics.
Dank der neuesten Integration bietet „Threat Scan“ in „Cleanroom Recovery“ nun die Erkennung und Analyse von Bedrohungen nach der Recovery sowie eine saubere Recovery. Dies wird dazu beitragen, das Vertrauen der Sicherheits- und IT-Teams zu stärken, dass sie nach einem Cybervorfall wieder den Normalbetrieb aufnehmen können.
Think of it as two-factor verification in data recovery. Cleanroom Recovery gives your team a chance to validate the data again post-recovery. Only when the team is confident in the cleanliness of their data does the data move forward into production – helping deliver not just a fast recovery, but a clean one.
Eine schnelle und sichere Recovery gestalten
When each second matters and the future of your organization is at stake, confidence is everything. Commvault’s recovery orchestration doesn’t just restore data; it does it intelligently and safely. With AI-enabled scans of metadata and file entropy, the platform automatically quarantines suspicious files and pinpoints the last known good copy. This means teams don’t waste precious hours guessing – they restore what’s clean, fast.
What’s more, the business impact is undeniable. Commvault’s sophisticated solution helps reduce downtime, improving confidence in recoveries and preventing the reinfection of their environments.
So sieht moderne Cyber-Resilienz aus: schnelle Erkennung von Bedrohungen, isolierte Umgebungen für Tests und die Vorbereitung von Recovery-Maßnahmen sowie Automatisierungen, die Ihren Teams helfen, sich nach Angriffen schnell wieder zu erholen.
