Data & AI Security – Unified
Commvault Data & AI Security helps enterprises discover and classify sensitive data across structured and unstructured environments — then enforce access governance to control what humans and AI systems can access, share, or use for model training. It helps apply data masking, redaction, and LLM prompt validation to reduce exposure risk without blocking legitimate data use.
14x
Leader of Gartner MQ
8 Exabytes
of customer data protected
160
cloud regions supported
What are some of the challenges facing teams around Data & AI security?
Data risk is exploding
Commvault Cloud Data & AI Access Governance helps you control data access so that your sensitive data can be protected and shared appropriately.
Sensitive data is everywhere
Without discovery and classification across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, sensitive data may stay hidden, unprotected, and exposed.
Access can be overly permissive
Overly broad permissions and weak access control leave customer and employee PII accessible to the wrong people, tools, and processes, including in AI models and training.
GenAI can increase the risk of data leakage
Employees may try to upload sensitive data into GenAI tools. Without access policies and governance, prompts and outputs can create audit, privacy, and compliance risks.
How Commvault helps provide Data & AI Security
Knowledge (about your data) is power
Commvault makes it easy for you to know what data you have, where it lives, who (and what) has access to it, and how it’s controlled.
Data discovery
Easily uncover where sensitive data lives within your organization, including personally identifiable information (PII), health care data (PHI), or sensitive company or technology secrets (such as API keys).
Control access by humans and AI
Intelligently apply policies that allow or restrict access to data for both human users and AI to sensitive data based on privacy, data security, or other access control policies.
Enable responsible use of data & AI
Monitor sensitive data used by people or by AI models for training based on user roles and access policies.
CORE CAPABILITIES
Discover sensitive data. Control access. Reduce Risk.
Sensitive data discovery, classification
Scan structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to find and classify PII, PHI, PCI data, intellectual property, secrets like API keys, or any custom data you need, across on-prem and cloud.
Metadata classification, synced everywhere
Apply classifications at the file metadata level and synchronize them to live environments, so downstream teams can act on consistent sensitivity labels.
Data and AI access governance
See who—and what—has access to sensitive data, identify overly permissive access, and prioritize remediation using clear visibility across your data estate.
Data risk assessment
Understand areas within your data environment that have high volumes of sensitive data, or where you may have redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data, so you can appropriately protect or manage it.
Access policy enforcement and controls
Enforce access policies for people, systems, and AI based on identity, role, and data sensitivity—restrict sharing and reduce exposure without slowing teams down.
Privacy protection
Validate AI prompts and responses for sensitive or unpermitted data, and apply privacy controls like data masking and redaction to help minimize data risk.
WHY TEAMS CHOOSE COMMVAULT FOR DATA & AI SECURITY
Unified data security at enterprise scale
Commvault helps unify data security and access governance with cyber resilience—covering structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, and aligning access governance so your teams can use data responsibly while being confident in your ability to recover.
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Data discovery
The foundation of data security relies on a solid understanding of what data you have and its sensitivity to apply downstream controls and appropriate monitoring. -
Data classification
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Data & AI access governance
Using an understanding of sensitive data in your environment, Commvault can help apply access policies to allow or restrict access and sharing of data to help reduce risk and data misuse.
Challenge
Complexity of data backup and recovery across a hybrid environment.
Solution
Reduced costs, complexity, and risk by protecting information in the cloud and at remote sites through a single data management solution.
sub-4K files protected
VMware servers protected
Challenge
Users were unable to access files due to ransomware attacks. They needed a disaster recovery plan to prioritize important services and maintain operability while minimizing impact on critical vaccine production process.
Solution
Integrated with Commvault Cloud to improve data security, strengthen ransomware protection, and to easily recover data.
to fully restore service across multiple offices and its factory.
of data volume protected by Commvault.
Challenge
Power Integrations required to retain data for an increasingly longer period at an increased cost. Additionally, their prior provider’s architecture couldn’t accommodate tiered storage.
Solution
Commvault Cloud offered a cost-effective long-term cloud storage solution for the company’s on-premises-to-cloud model.
of data secured
Time it took for the investment to be recouped through more efficient storage tiering
GETTING STARTED IS SIMPLE
Discovery to governance—on your terms
Begin with discovery & classification
Select the structured or unstructured data environments to scan, and apply out-of-the-box classifiers (PII, PHI, PCI, IP, and secrets like API keys), or configure your own to your business need.
Assess data risk & remediate
Manage access permissions and identify overexposed data to bolster privacy. Archive or delete redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data to reduce risk and lower your storage cost.
Access governance policy rollout
Apply access governance and access policies based on identity, role, and data sensitivity. Rein in overly permissive access, enable just-in-time access workflows, and generate audit-ready evidence across your data estate.
Analyst Report
IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cyber-Recovery 2025 Vendor Assessment
Commvault was recognized for strengths in cyber recovery architecture, workload and platform breadth, data security ecosystem integration and dedicated cyber-resilience training.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is data discovery needed for cyber resilience?
Effective data discovery is the foundation of cyber resilience, providing organizations with the critical visibility needed to safeguard their most valuable assets. Without a comprehensive understanding of the data landscape – including what data exists, where it’s stored, and how it’s utilized – organizations can be left vulnerable to cyber threats and unable to respond effectively in the event of a breach.
How does data classification help improve data security?
Data classification allows you to focus protection efforts where they matter most, rather than applying blanket policies across all data. For example, categorizing data based on content, context, and metadata, like PII, PHI, PCI, or intellectual property, allows you to implement controls on only that type of data.
What do data discovery and security have to do with responsible AI use?
Data discovery helps organizations understand their data across environments before it ever reaches an AI pipeline. If AI models learn from sensitive information, such as PII, PHI, or confidential business data, they may return that data as a response to a prompt. Appropriately classified data can help prevent sensitive “shadow data” from being unknowingly used in training or inference.
What types of data does Commvault Data & AI Security Cover?
Commvault Cloud supports discovery/classification and access governance for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across on-prem and cloud environments. Access governance is currently available for structured data only.
Can I search for and classify any kind of data, or just sensitive data?
Data & AI security can be configured to search metadata or full file data for pre-defined types of data or custom patterns. With our data discovery capabilities, we can even help you search images using OCR.
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