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Incident Response & Recovery

Use insights from threat detection and other third-party tools to better respond and recover from security incidents.

KEY BENEFITS

Find threats, quarantine bad data, recover cleanly

When facing potential security incidents, you need all the helpyou canget. With Commvault’s platform architecture’s built-in threat detection, security ecosystem integrations, and clean recovery options, you can confidently recover in the face of attacks. 


Detect threats & preserve forensics

Scan andmonitorfiles for the presence of malware, encryption, or other anomalies. Flagsuspiciousfilesfor investigation, and quarantine them so theyaren’tused during a recovery. 


Use your own security signals

Bring your own security signals from SIEM, SOAR, or detection tools directly into Commvault’s platform architecture for added context during recovery and response. 


Minimize good data rollback

Don’tdiscard good data when recovering from an incident. With Synthetic Recovery™, Commvault’s platform architecture enables you to create a new recovery point with good data across multiple points in timeinstead of having to use your last clean, fullbackup. 

DETECT, RESPOND, RECOVER

Confidently recover from incidents

Commvault’s platform architecture supports security teams with threat insights, the ability to quarantine malicious files to prevent reinfection or for forensic investigation, and theexpertiseneeded to face cyber threats like ransomware. 


Threat detection & hunting

Automatically scan your data for threats toidentifymalware or encryption. Search for specific threats with custom YARA rules or file hashes from other security tools. 

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Isolated recovery environments

During cyberattacks, youcan’ttrust your data or infrastructure. With Commvault Cleanroom, we give you an on-demand, isolated recoveryenvironmentwhere you can test recoveries, stage recovered files for observability, and prepare to recover to production 

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Clean recovery Is critical

Reinfection following cyberattacks can stifle recovery efforts and let attackers back in. Commvault’s platform architectureincludes capabilities like Synthetic Recovery™ andCleanpoint™ identification to help you reduce data rollback and recover your known-good data with confidence. 

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Security is a team sport

Commvault’s platform architecture integrates with other security technology to swap insights, correlate events, and share threat intelligence. 

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Cyber resilience services

Commvault has dedicated resources on hand and standing by to help you prepare for and recover from cyber incidents.These include our GuardianResponse, Protection, and fully managed services. 

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Analyst Report

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cyber-Recovery 2025 Vendor Assessment

Commvault was recognized for strengths in cyber recovery architecture, workload and platform breadth, security ecosystem integration and dedicated cyber-resilience training. 

AI Recovery Solutions

Continuous recovery for the AI era

Explore our portfolio of recovery solutions, purpose-built for the unique challenges of theAI–enabledenterprise, making yourrecovery continuous, complete, clean, and confirmedregardless of wheredata, identities, and AI systems live. 

CyberRecover

Clean, isolated recovery when trust in the production environment is gone.

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CoreRecover

Integrated recovery across complex enterprise infrastructure.

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IDRecover

Tier-0 identity recovery across Active Directory, Entra ID and Okta.

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AgentRecover

Recover from rogue AI agent actions across the enterprise.

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SaaSRecover

Protect and recover the critical data your business runs on, from CRM to DevOps.

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Our Reach

Supporting more than 100,000 companies

Additional Resources

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Threat Scan

See how Commvault’s Threat Scan helps you find threats, prevent reinfection, and enable fast, clean recovery.
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whitepaper

Commvault Anomaly and Threat Detection Primer

Read about how Commvault’s anomaly and threat detection helps identify risks before they compromise your data.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What part does cyber resilience play in incident response and recovery?

Cyber resilience is about keeping the business running even when cyberattacks or disruptions occur. It focuses on preparation, adaptability, and recovery. Incident response relies on cyber resilience capabilities like threat detection, threat containment, and the recovery of affected data. The insights gained during incident response feed back into resilience planning, making the organization stronger for future challenges.

What are common incidents that Commvault can help recover from?

Commvault helps organizations recover from many incidents where data integrity, availability, or accessibility is at risk — including ransomware, destructive attacks, outages, and cloud service disruptions. Our focus is on helping you recoverfast, recoverclean, andmaintaincontinuous business. 

Can Commvault help me during an incident?

Yes. Commvault offers several services to help customers during cyberattacks and incidents in the form of our Commvault Guardian services andadditionalcapabilities. Reach out to your account manager to learn more about these options to buildin toyour incident response planning 

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