Leverages the same platform that already
delivers comprehensive protection of critical workloads – ushering
in a new level of cyber resilience for customers and
partners
TINTON
FALLS, N.J., Jan. 14,
2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Commvault, a leading
provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the
hybrid cloud, today introduced an expansion of its platform to
provide full and automated forest recovery for the world's most
widely used enterprise identity and access solution, Microsoft
Active Directory.
As organizations continue to combat non-stop cyberattacks and
threats, Commvault® Cloud Backup & Recovery for
Active Directory Enterprise Edition is the latest addition to the
Commvault Cloud platform, which already protects a vast array of
workloads and is designed to keep customers resilient, operational,
and in a state of continuous business.
Active Directory, often called the "backbone of enterprise IT,"
manages authentication for more than 610 million users
worldwide1 and controls access to critical business
systems, protecting everything from workstation logins to physical
building access. If Active Directory goes offline, business
operations can come to a halt. Bad actors know this all too well,
which is why they make Active Directory a primary target in up to 9
out of 10 cyberattacks2. When disaster strikes,
recovering Active Directory is vital, yet traditionally has been
very hard to do, requiring intricate, time-consuming, manual
processes, as described by Microsoft's Forest Recovery Guide.
Commvault is changing this with Backup & Recovery for Active
Directory Enterprise Edition. It brings a new level of resilience
to Active Directory by enabling automated, rapid recovery of the
Active Directory forest, which includes users, groups, permissions,
and domain controllers across the organization. This new offering
eliminates slow and error-prone manual processes often associated
with Active Directory forest recoveries. With Backup & Recovery
for Active Directory Enterprise Edition, enterprises will be able
to:
- Make Active Directory recovery a snap via automated
runbooks: Automated forest recovery runbooks streamline the
multi-step process required for Active Directory forest recovery,
including tasks like transferring key roles from an unavailable
domain controller to a functioning one, which is essential for a
clean recovery. These runbooks can also be used for regular testing
in non-production environments to enhance cyber readiness.
- Enable fast recovery of the most important Active Directory
infrastructure: Visual topology views of an organization's
Active Directory environment enable simple and rapid identification
of which domain controllers to restore first and how they should be
recovered to accelerate availability of Active Directory
services.
- Accelerate recovery times and advance resilience:
Manually recovering an Active Directory forest can take days or
even weeks to complete, but with Commvault, organizations can
recover it in a fraction of the time. Commvault's Cloud platform
integrates Active Directory forest recovery with granular recovery
of both Active Directory and Entra ID, the cloud-based identity
service, providing comprehensive protection.
"Active Directory is the heart that keeps our business
functioning and in the event of a ransomware attack, recovering it
will be one of our top priorities," said Jeffrey Day, Deputy Chief Information Security
Officer, Nevada Department of
Transportation. "Commvault's innovation with Active Directory
forest recovery will provide us with the confidence and peace of
mind that not only can we recover our Active Directory data, but we
will be able to do so quickly and accurately. And, having this
offering integrated directly into the same cyber resilience
platform that we use to protect mission-critical workloads is a
win-win."
"Recovering Active Directory is foundational to maintaining
continuous business after a cyberattack, yet traditional methods
are too complex and prone to error," said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer,
Commvault. "With automated Active Directory forest recovery, we are
giving customers game-changing recovery capabilities, and by
integrating this into our unique cyber resilience platform with
broad workload support, we're bringing a new era of continuous
business to our customers that nobody can match."
"With identity-based attacks on the rise, it has never been more
critical to protect Active Directory," said Krista Case, Research Director, Futurum Group.
"Commvault's approach, which includes automated workbooks and
folding Active Directory recovery into the same platform that also
protects a wide range of other workloads, addresses several
critical requirements we hear from practitioners, including the
need to streamline security operations and to accelerate
recoveries."
Availability and Pricing
Commvault Cloud Backup &
Recovery for Active Directory Enterprise Edition is targeted for
general availability within the first half of 2025 and priced per
user.
For More Information
To learn more and demo the
solution, visit the Active Directory solution page.
About Commvault
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold
standard in cyber resilience, helping more than 100,000
organizations keep data safe and businesses resilient and moving
forward. Today, Commvault offers the only cyber resilience platform
that combines the best data security and rapid recovery at
enterprise scale across any workload, anywhere—at the lowest
TCO.
1 Microsoft (2023). Microsoft Fiscal Year 2023
Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call. Retrieved from
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2023/earnings-fy-2023-q4.
2 Sheridan, K. (2021, May
3). Researchers Explore Active Directory Attack Vectors.
Dark Reading.
https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/researchers-explore-active-directory-attack-vectors
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