How Do You Protect and Recover Active Directory After a Cyberattack?
Active Directory outages can cost enterprises up to $730,000 per hour — and 90% of ransomware attacks now target identity systems first. Commvault Identity Resilience automates the protection, monitoring, and recovery of Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta, reducing identity recovery time from days to minutes while preventing reinfection during restoration.
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Challenges organizations face with identity resilience
Why is identity the most targeted layer in your enterprise?
Identity systems control authentication and access across the enterprise, making them a prime target for attackers seeking to escalate privileges, move laterally, and disrupt operations.
Why is identity the primary attack surface?
80% of all modern breaches involve compromised identities to gain access, move laterally, disable recovery mechanisms, and cause widespread business disruption.
CrowdStrike, Stop Identity-Based Threats Today
Why do team silos slow incident response?
Security and IT teams lack a single, comprehensive view of identity risks, changes, and recovery readiness.
Why is traditional identity recovery so complex?
Traditional recovery approaches are manual, complex, and error-prone, slowing restoration and increasing reinfection risk after attacks.
How Commvault Helps You Build Identity Resilience End-to-end identity resilience
How does Commvault help build your identity resilience?
Commvault is designed to deliver end-to-end identity resilience, providing visibility, control, and recovery, empowering organizations to reduce risk, minimize downtime, and help maintain continuous business operations.
Proactively assess risk
Enables the continuous assessment of identity misconfigurations and privilege exposure and helps to proactively shrink your attack surface and strengthen security posture.
Detect and contain threats in real time
Monitor suspicious identity changes and privilege escalation in real time so you can contain threats quickly and minimize operational impact.
Restore trusted identity states
Commvault delivers rapid, clean recovery of identity systems so organizations can restore trusted identity states after an outage or attack.
Key capabilities
Comprehensive identity protection and recovery features designed for today’s threat landscape
Commvault Identity Resilience delivers six integrated capabilities that span the full identity protection lifecycle — from proactive vulnerability assessment through real-time threat detection to automated recovery across Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta.
01 Vulnerability Assessments
Continuously scan AD to uncover misconfigurations and exploitable exposures, enabling proactive risk reduction and stronger security posture.
02 Immutable identity backups
Identity backups are protected in tamper resistant storage, designed to help them remain immutable against compromised credentials.
03 Real-time auditing and anomaly detection
Surface suspicious or unauthorized identity changes, quickly pinpoint compromise, and revert to a known clean state.
04 Granular object-level recovery
Rapidly recover only the missing, damaged, or misconfigured object attributes to get business systems or users back online quickly.
05 Enterprise-scale forest recovery
Recover entire Active Directory forests, multiple domains, and domain controllers in a coordinated, orchestrated workflow, designed for complex, distributed enterprise environments.
06 Unified Resilience Platform
Protect identities across Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta from a single, unified platform.
Customer Success Stories
Organizations across industries use Commvault to reduce identity risk, accelerate recovery, and improve operational efficiency with automated, unified resilience capabilities.
The Challenge
Struggled with manual backups and lacked granular Active Directory recovery, increasing operational risk and administrative overhead.
The Solution
Implemented Commvault Cloud to protect Active Directory and enable rapid recovery from operational mistakes.
To recover AD from disaster
Manual backup and recovery workload eliminated
The Challenge
Inconsistent backups for critical systems created data gaps and risk of data loss
The Solution
Implemented Commvault Cloud for agile data protection and flexible, granular recovery
backup success over 5 years
Frequently Asked Questions
What is identity resilience?
Identity resilience is the ability to protect, detect, and rapidly recover identity systems such as Active Directory and Entra ID after cyberattacks or outages.
Why is identity a primary target?
Cyberattacks targeting identity systems are rising fast. The threat is substantial, with 80% of breaches involving compromised identities.
When identity services are compromised or go offline, business operations can grind to a halt, and the longer it takes to restore these services, the greater the disruption.
Commvault Identity Resilience protects Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and Okta — covering on-premises, cloud, and hybrid identity environments from a single platform. This unified coverage enables organizations to protect and recover all major enterprise identity providers through one console, eliminating the tool fragmentation that slows incident response and creates protection gaps
1 CrowdStrike data via Infosecurity Magazine (2024) – infosecurity-magazine.com
What environments are supported?
Commvault supports protection of identities across AD, Entra ID, and Okta environments.
How can Commvault help reduce downtime after an attack?
Commvault can help minimize downtime after an attack through automated, orchestrated recovery workflows that restore clean identity states quickly. Immutable backups prevent tampering, while granular recovery options allow precise restoration, enabling organizations to resume operations faster without reintroducing compromised data.
What outcomes can I expect with Commvault’s solution?
Commvault provides greater visibility into identity risks and changes, faster recovery from attacks or outages, safe testing of recovery plans all while having lower costs through a unified resilience platform. Your organization gets stronger protection for your authentication and access systems.
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