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How Do You Build Identity Resilience?

Building identity resilience requires combining capabilities that allow you to protect, detect, and rapidly recover identity infrastructure before, during, and after an attack. Commvault Identity Resilience delivers protection, monitoring, and recovery capabilities designed to help organizations assess risk, continuously monitor and detect suspicious changes, and rapidly recover AD, Entra ID, and Okta from cyberattacks, corruption, or operational failures.

  • 100,000 customers

  • 15x Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader

  • SOC 2, ISO, FedRAMP High Authorized

01 Executive summary

Organizations must build Identity Resilience

Identity is the new perimeter, and it is under constant attack. Commvault delivers a comprehensive approach to identity resilience, providing complete visibility, control, and recovery across AD, Entra ID, and Okta environments. Commvault enables organizations to proactively assess risk, continuously monitor and detect suspicious changes, and recover identity systems from cyberattacks, corruption, or operational failures.


82%

Experienced at least one identity attack in the last year
2025 Future of Identity Security Report, ConductorOne


75%

Of organizations now manage two or more identity providers
Strata, The State of Multi-Cloud Identity Survey, 2024


69%

Of organizations lack full visibility into identity vulnerabilities
Cisco Duo, 2025 State of Identity Security

02 the challenge

Why does identity resilience matter?

Organizations need the ability to protect, detect, and recover identity systems safely in the face of increasing identity-based attacks. But distributed environments, fast-moving attackers, and fragmented tooling leave identity infrastructure exposed and difficult to secure and recover.


Increasing identity-based attacks

80% of modern breaches involve compromised identities to gain access, escalate privileges, move laterally, and cause widespread disruption.
CrowdStrike, Stop Identity-Based Threats Today 


Hybrid complexity expands risk

Hybrid and multi-cloud environment growth combined with privileged misconfigurations and fragmented toolsets creates complexity that reduces visibility and increases attack exposure. 


Visibility into identity risks is fragmented

Disparate tools prevent teams from gaining a complete view of identity activity, access changes, and risk posture, often delaying detection and weakening response effectiveness.


Recovery is complex and unreliable

Traditional recovery approaches are slow, manual, and often depend on compromised data, forcing organizations to rebuild identity systems or risk reintroducing threats during restoration.

03 the solution

Commvault Identity Resilience

Commvault’s Identity Resilience solution is designed to help organizations proactively assess identity risk, detect and contain attacks in real-time, and restore identity systems to a trusted state.


Assess risk

Vulnerability assessments provide continuous visibility into identity security posture by identifying misconfigurations and exposures attackers commonly exploit—such as excessive privileges, weak delegation, and insecure authentication settings.


Detect & contain

Commvault continuously monitors for risky changes, privilege escalation, anomalous behavior, enabling teams to quickly detect, investigate, and contain identity threats.


Recover cleanly

Automated recovery, from granular rollback to full Active Directory forest recovery, enabling rapid restoration of identity infrastructure to a clean, trusted state.

04 technical architecture

Commvault unifies identity resilience across assessment, detection, and recovery in a single control plane, delivering the visibility, control, and precision needed to understand risk, detect threats in real time, and recover quickly and cleanly.

Unified Control Console

Unified Identity Resilience Across Assessment, Detection, and Recovery

Unified protection for AD, Entra ID, Okta

Cloud-based control plane remains accessible even when AD is unavailable or compromised

Assessment, Detection & Recovery

Visibility into identity security posture with a prioritized map of identity risk

Continuous monitoring of AD for high-risk changes, privilege escalation, and anomalous behavior

Granular rollback of objects including users, groups, and policies

Automated full forest recovery with visual topology mapping and intuitive runbooks that orchestrate every step

05 Key Capabilities


Vulnerability assessment

Identity security posture visibility
Uncover misconfigurations and exposures attackers commonly exploit in AD. Risks are prioritized and mapped to remediation guidance, enabling organizations to proactively reduce attack surface and help prevent compromise.


Immutable storage

Ransomware-resistant protection
Identity backups are protected in tamper resistant storage that cannot be modified or deleted by compromised credentials.


Real-time auditing

Continuous monitoring and rollback
Continuously monitors AD for risky changes and anomalous behavior and enables rapid response with detailed audit trails and instant rollback of malicious changes.


Automated recovery

Accelerated recovery to a trusted state
Automated recovery – from granular object rollback to full forest restoration – restores identity systems to a clean, trusted state with minimal downtime and reduced operational complexity.


Unified platform

Protection across hybrid, Multi-IdP environments
Protection for Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta from a single, unified platform, helping simplify management and reduce operational overhead.

06 Compliance & Certifications

Commvault delivers rigorous compliance, extensive certifications, and secure data protection aligned to stringent regulatory requirements for highly regulated industries.


FedRamp High Authorized


SOC 2 Type II


ISO 27001

07 Conclusion

Identity systems are foundational to the enterprise, and their compromise can halt business entirely. Commvault Cloud provides a structured approach to identity resilience, enabling organizations to assess risk, detect and contain threats, and recover identity systems quickly and safely, helping detect compromise faster, minimize downtime and improve recovery confidence.


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08 FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is identity resilience?

Identity resilience is the ability to protect, detect, and recover identity systems like Active Directory before, during, and after an identity-based attack, enabling the business to maintain trusted access to critical systems even during cyber incidents.

Why are identity systems targeted by attackers

Identity systems are targeted because they control authentication and access across the enterprise. This makes identity systems a critical attack vector and a key dependency for restoring business operations after an incident. Compromising identity systems allows attackers to expand privileges, move laterally, and block recovery efforts.

What is the impact of an identity-based attack

Identity-based attacks can lock users out, disable access to critical systems, and halt operations. For example, an Active Directory outage can cost up to $750,000 per hour, making fast detection and recovery essential to minimizing financial and operational impact.

What is granular identity recovery

Granular identity recovery allows organizations to restore specific objects and attributes such as users, groups, or policies without rebuilding the entire directory. Commvault supports this with object and attribute-level rollback across AD, Entra ID, and Okta — helping reduce downtime and enabling faster remediation of both operational errors and targeted cyberattacks.

How do you detect unauthorized identity changes

Unauthorized identity changes are detected through continuous monitoring of directory activity. Commvault’s real-time auditing capability captures and centralizes directory changes and authentication activity as it occurs, with full context, into a unified, searchable timeline that enables faster detection, investigation, and response to unauthorized or suspicious changes.

How does Commvault recover Active Directory after a ransomware attack?

Commvault recovers Active Directory after ransomware through automated full forest recovery using intuitive runbooks that orchestrate every step—from domain controller rebuilds and metadata verification to re-securing replication trust. It replaces manual, error-prone procedures, supports clean OS rebuilds, and integrates with Cleanroom Recovery to validate the restored environment before returning to production.

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Identity Under Attack: Take Back Control with Commvault

In this webinar, learn how Commvault can help you proactively assess risk, contain threats in real time, and rapidly restore clean, trusted identity systems at enterprise scale.
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