--- title: "Minimize Risk Across Hybrid Workloads | Commvault" type: "WebPage" language: "en-US" url: "https://www.commvault.com/platform/risk" date: "2024-02-14T13:41:54-05:00" modified: "2025-10-29T11:44:28-04:00" description: "Explore the Commvault platform – a comprehensive solution for managing and mitigating risks in your organization." image: "https://www.commvault.com/ogimage/fb/4454/" breadcrumbs: - name: "Commvault Home" url: "https://www.commvault.com/" - name: "Platform" url: "https://www.commvault.com/platform" - name: "Risk" --- # Risk - [Home](/) - Capabilities - Risk ## Continuous Data Security to Protect Data Across Hybrid Workloads Understand sensitive data to apply appropriate protection and deploy advanced early warning and threat detection mechanisms to protect data and AI pipelines proactively. - [Request demo](/request-demo) ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Hero_Risk-Pillar_650x650.jpg) --- - [Overview Video](#Overview-Video) - [Benefits](#Benefits) - [Analyst Report](#Analyst-Report) - [Resources](#Resources) - [FAQs](#FAQs) [Start a Trial](/free-trial) --- Overview Video ## Commvault Risk Governance Advanced data governance capabilities coupled with proactive threat detection helps secure today’s cloud-first enterprises [Watch now](https://commvault.com/resources/video/risk-governance-overview) Play Video ![Video thumbnail](https://play.vidyard.com/QTd21tzxkAsfo2xn5LA5NM.jpg) --- Data SECURITY & Risk Minimization benefits ## Data governance controls & threat and anomaly detection Improve your data and cybersecurity posture by better understanding data and proactively monitoring for cyber threats like hackers, ransomware, and malware. --- ![](https://www.commvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ransomware_Crocus_RGB.svg) --- ## Discover, classify, and protect sensitive data Reduce your data footprint and safeguard sensitive data to maintain trust, including secrets like keys or passwords, PII, and other sensitive or regulated data. ![](https://www.commvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GDPR-Sensitive-Data_Crocus_RGB.svg) --- ## Reduce risk and improve cyber resilience Added protection for applications and data, including proactive and in-line scanning of data for new and persistent threats, helps reduce risk of recovery failures. ![](https://www.commvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/User-Alert_Crocus_RGB_e92bdf.svg) --- ## Understand data and backup resiliency posture Easily check configurations and settings within your data against best practices to reduce risk to your live and backup environments. --- The reckoning is here ## A New Strategy for Surviving the Agentic Threat Landscape As AI transforms both business capabilities and cybercrime, traditional recovery strategies are no longer enough. Discover a bold new strategy for surviving AI-enhanced cyber threats and rebuilding with confidence. [Get the eBook](/gc/the-cyber-resilience-reckoning) ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/LP-Hero-Image-The-Cyber-Resilience-Reckoning-650X650.png) --- enhanced control ## Advanced data governance Commvault® Cloud provides visibility and control over your data estate with automated data governance policies that help reduce your attack surface and assist with regulatory compliance. [Explore Risk Analysis](/platform/risk-analysis) ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Platform_Recovery_Automated-Recovery_1088x870.png) --- --- ## Scan and classify live data Automatically label and tag data to apply retention and data protection policies. --- ## Automate data lifecycle actions Trigger retention policies based on your data lifecycle, or pause those policies indefinitely in the case of eDiscovery or legal holds. --- ## Minimize redundant, obsolete, and trivial data Shrink your attack surface and storage costs by eliminating duplicate, unnecessary, or unneeded data from your data estate. --- ## Fully customizable data discovery In addition to dozens of out-of-the-box classifiers for sensitive data, automatically discover anything your data governance teams deem sensitive—including keywords and secrets like API keys. --- ADVANCED SECURITY & RISK MITIGATION ## Early warning & threat and anomaly detection Commvault Cloud helps shift your cyber defenses left to detect threats and mitigate risk earlier in the attack lifecycle. [Explore Cleanroom Recovery](/platform/cleanroom-recovery) ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Platform_Risk_Early-Warning_1088x870.png) --- --- ## Detect threats and unusual activity Discover malware, automatically quarantine suspicious files, and create a clean point so that corrupt or compromised data isn’t restored during recovery. [Explore Threat Scan](/platform/threat-scan) --- ## Deploy decoys and traps for attackers Strategically place high-value decoy data to look legitimate but act as an early warning sensor to detect threats proactively. [Learn more about deception](https://www.commvault.com/blogs/attackers-overstay-their-welcome) --- ## Implement continuous monitoring Use sensors across your environment to detect nefarious network traffic or suspicious behavior, allowing your security operations teams to analyze security incidents. [Explore Threatwise®](/platform/threatwise) --- DATA SECURITY POSTURE MONITORING ## Harden and safeguard data from internal and external threats Reduce exposure, drive resilience, and organically improve your security posture. [Explore Security IQ](/platform/security-iq) ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Platform_Risk_Safeguard-Data_1088x870.png) --- --- ## Security control monitoring Visualize the security posture of your environment with intuitive dashboards and reporting. --- ## Evaluate configuration against best practice Get intelligent recommendations to help improve your backup environment’s security posture based on industry best practices. --- ## Advanced threat indicators Quickly drill down into suspicious activity and investigate malware- or ransomware-infected files. --- Analyst Report ## Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Cyber Resilience with Commvault® Cloud Commvault Cloud drives cost-efficiency, agility, and cyber resilience with lower TCO [Learn more](https://www.commvault.com/gc/the-economic-benefits-of-cyber-resilience-with-commvault-on-azure) ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CustomerStory_BMA_650x650.png) --- Our Reach ## Supporting more than 100,000 companies - ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CustomerLogo_Adidas_320x160.png) - ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CustomerLogo_SONY_320x160.png) - ![AstraZeneca logo](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CustomerLogo_AstraZeneca_320x160-1.png) - ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CustomerLogo_Merck_320x160-1.png) - ![ranstad logo](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CustomerLogo_Randstad_320x160.png) - ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CustomerLogo_Panasonic_320x160.png) --- > “Commvault Cloud delivers integrated, zero-trust security for peace of mind. We have complete confidence that our data is safe.” > > Nelson Lam > > President, Tontec International Limited > “With a long retention strategy, our cloud storage costs were accelerating quickly. Commvault Cloud gave us a way to dramatically lower those costs and keep them predictable, while simultaneously providing us with the data resilience needed to keep our business running. ” > > Jacob Gsoedl > > CIO, Power Integrations > “With Commvault, we can build a defense mechanism to prevent cyberattacks and enable rapid recovery. With just a few clicks, we can restore a virtual machine or backups after an attack, which is vital in our line of work as a pharmaceutical company with very sensitive data.” > > Paul Vries > > IT Team Lead, Bilthoven Biologicals --- related resources ## Explore more platform resources [View all resources](/resources) --- ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Resource_Generic_888x500-13.jpg) datasheet ## Commvault® Cloud Risk Analysis Identify and categorize sensitive data to protect it from unauthorized access, theft, and misuse. [Read more about Commvault® Cloud Risk Analysis](http://commvault.com/resources/datasheet/proactively-defend-data-with-commvault-risk-analysis) ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Cisco-Benefit_Analyze-Malware_1088x870.jpg) DATASHEET ## Identify malware and prevent reinfection with Commvault® Cloud: Threat Scan Learn to enable swift and trusted data recovery by analyzing backup data to find encrypted and corrupted files. [Read more about Identify malware and prevent reinfection with Commvault® Cloud: Threat Scan](http://commvault.com/resources/datasheet/identify-malware-and-prevent-reinfection-with-commvault-threat-scan) ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Resource_Cyberthreat-Recovery-Solution-Brief_888x500-1.jpg) SOLUTION BRIEF ## Cyberthreat protection with resilience and recovery Secure and defend data broadly across cloud, on-prem, and SaaS workloads. [Read more about Cyberthreat protection with resilience and recovery](http://commvault.com/resources/solution-brief/commvault-cyber-threat-protection-and-recovery) --- ## Frequently Asked Questions What is cyber risk? Cyber risk comes from threats against technology that a business uses daily. These risks sometimes arise from simple failures of SaaS applications or from malicious actors looking to compromise your data, infrastructure, or operations with malware or ransomware. How does the use of early warning or threat detection technology help reduce risk? The earlier an attack or malicious actor is found within your environment, the higher the likelihood you can stop or minimize a full-scale data breach. Instrumenting your environment with sensors or monitoring behaviors can uncover suspicious activity so security operations teams can shut it down. How does cyber risk management contribute to a cyber resilience plan or program? Understanding what you have within your environment and how it’s currently protected provides a baseline for measuring a cyber resilience program. Implementing better detection mechanisms, minimizing your attack surface, and having good visibility into your current data security posture can all help mature your cyber resilience and help you bounce back in the event of an attack. What is a decoy in the context of early warning? A decoy is a system or piece of data that looks appealing to an attacker performing reconnaissance on your environment and looking for ways to get access to important or sensitive data. Often, decoys are only visible to illegitimate users. When an attacker attempts to open, probe, or manipulate a decoy, a high-fidelity warning is immediately triggered to alert security operations teams to the threat actor. --- get started ## Try Commvault® Cloud today Cyber resilience for the cloud-first enterprise, with the first platform built to enable continuous business. [Get free trial](/free-trial) ![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ProductUI_InSitu_StylizedMobile-9.png)