Microsoft Active Directory
Active Directory (AD) controls user access to network resources, making it a prime target for attackers. Safeguard your AD from deletion, corruption, and attacks.


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Accelerate and automate Active Directory forest recovery
See how Commvault Cloud enables rapid, automated recovery of the AD forest after corruption or attack. Eliminate slow and error-prone manual recovery processes and recover AD in a fraction of the time.
The challenge
Identity is the foundation of your systems
When Active Directory goes offline, your business operations can come to a halt. Are you prepared for the worst-case scenario? Commvault® Cloud helps provide continuous availability of AD services to minimize downtime and maintain continuous business operations.
9 in 10
cyberattacks target Active Directory
$730k
the potential financial loss from AD outages
Days to weeks
The time it takes to recover Active Directory after an attack using manual recovery methods.
Fusce eget odio.
² Forbes, Understanding The Implications Of Active Directory Outages—And How To Fight Back, September 2024

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Protecting the Crown Jewels: Securing Active Directory against cyber threats
With Active Directory at the center of secure authentication and services, protecting and securing this data is critical. Discover how rapid recovery of your Active Directory can enhance your organization’s cyber resilience.
Accelerate AD recovery
Reduce the time to recover Active Directory after a cyberattack
Manually recovering Active Directory can take anywhere from days to weeks. Commvault Cloud automates the entire AD forest recovery process, reducing the risk of error and accelerating recovery times.

Automated AD forest recovery
Automate the full AD forest recovery process to minimize downtime and maintain continuous business across the enterprise.
Automated recovery runbooks
Streamlines the multi-step process required for Active Directory forest recovery, including all the complex hygiene tasks required to verify consistency in the recovered AD.
Visual AD topology views
Visual topology views of your AD environment enable simple and rapid identification of which domain controllers to restore first and how they should be recovered to accelerate availability of identity services.
Prescriptive runbook views
Step-by-step views of the recovery process offer complete visibility into your progress and how long it will take to get your Active Directory back online.
AD recovery testing
Easily practice your AD disaster and cyber recovery plans regularly in a non-production lab environment during the good times to prepare for the bad times.
Fusce eget odio.
Accelerate AD recovery
Find identity risks and respond quickly
Granularity that enables you to view what’s changed in your environment and revert those changes as efficiently as possible to get your business back online fast.

Single-solution identity protection
Comprehensive protection across critical AD and Entra ID objects and attributes including group policy objects, users, groups, and all their relationships.
Interactive comparison reporting
Compare all changes in the AD domain between two points in time, quickly identify the data that needs to be recovered or reverted, and restore it quickly, directly from the report.
Object and attribute-level recovery
Flexible, granular recovery allows administrators to quickly recover only the missing, damaged, or misconfigured object attributes, and get your business systems or users back online quickly.
Fusce eget odio.

Whitepaper
Active Directory Forest Recovery
Active Directory forest recovery is foundational to maintaining continuous business after a cyberattack. This whitepaper provides an in-depth overview of AD forest recovery, highlighting essential considerations for planning your recovery strategy.
Our Reach
Supporting more than 100,000 companies







Analyst Report
Gartner® Magic Quadrant™
For the 14th time in a row, Commvault has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms.
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Active Directory protection
Understand how to solve your top challenges so you can safeguard Microsoft AD and Entra ID data from a single solution.

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Protect Active Directory from data loss threats
Dive into the details of how Commvault Cloud protects Active Directory from threats in this datasheet.

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On-demand webinar: From Mishaps to Meltdowns
Join Commvault experts for an immersive webinar where we’ll simulate a real-world Active Directory outage. Witness the cascading effects of AD failure and learn how to accelerate the restoration of AD– and business operations – fast.
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