Commvault has redefined data protection and included new early warning technologies that proactively secure against threats, defend enterprise data if the environment is breached, and ensure recoverability.

Commvault®, an enterprise data protection leader for today’s global businesses and the first data protection vendor to introduce cyber deception has announced exciting new cybersecurity capabilities across its entire business portfolio

The announcement marks a significant milestone in Commvault’s progression, as it empowers businesses to proactively safeguard, shield, and restore their valuable data in the face of ever-advancing cyber threats.

As a testament to its commitment to comprehensive security, Commvault has broadened its security ecosystem by forging strategic product integrations with industry giants such as Microsoft and CyberArk.

Scheduled for release in the second quarter (Q2), Commvault’s cutting-edge security functionalities are seamlessly managed and delivered through the intuitive Commvault Cloud Command interface.

The streamlined interface offers comprehensive visibility, enabling businesses to make informed decisions, enhance their security stance, and ensure the integrity of their data, leading to smoother and more effective recovery processes. Notable capabilities encompassed within these features include:

• Commvault Cloud Command – A single platform and UI, offering universal management for all Commvault offerings in an integrated dashboard that provides full telemetry and observability into key Commvault software indicators. Delivers health-at-a-glance, risk levels, security and recovery indicators, and beyond for Commvault investments from a single source.
• Commvault Risk Analysis – Powered by machine learning (ML), Commvault Risk Analysis quarantines and protects sensitive data, giving organisations the ability to discover, analyse, and secure sensitive data to help prevent cyber exposure and potential data exfiltration.
• Commvault Threat Scan – Fosters the detection of corrupted or suspicious datasets. Businesses can use Threat Scan to locate and quarantine malware and threats from backup content, and help ensure clean recoveries while decreasing the likelihood of reinfection.
• Commvault Auto Recovery – Cyber analysis tool that tests recovery readiness at scale and provides a framework for forensic analysis to validate and sanitize points of recovery, aiding in the prevention of future incidents. Allows organisations to easily and securely recover workloads at scale from cyber-attacks with minimal data loss and downtime.
• ThreatWise Advisor – Delivers integrated logic into Commvault backup environments to intelligently recommend decoy placement, and further harden critical workloads.

Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO, Commvault said, “Commvault has spent the last four years redefining and expanding the capabilities of our platform to bridge the gap between IT and security,” 

“As a result, our customers can now be on the offence, taking it to the attackers by consolidating threat defence, backup, and recovery in a way that’s never been done before,” said Mirchandani

“Today we advance on our vision of enhanced data protection that establishes a seamless relationship between threat events and backups – resulting in a rapid and reliable solution for data recovery in the event of a cyber incident,” said Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Chief Product Officer, Commvault.

Proactive and reliable recoverability

Commvault emerges as the steadfast ally for enterprises when confronted with the formidable challenge of recovering from a debilitating attack or an unexpected outage.

Drawing upon its proactive and unwavering recoverability solutions, Commvault provides a robust framework to restore operations swiftly and effectively.

Renowned for its extensive coverage across various workloads, the cyber security leader guarantees minimal downtime and rapid response times, ensuring uninterrupted business continuity.

We love the simplicity of the Commvault dashboard. 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,” said Paul Vries, IT Consultant, Bilthoven Biologicals.

“Commvault gives us confidence that we can manage, protect, and recover data in the cloud and on-premises, even in the worst-case scenario.” he said.

Phil Goodwin, Research Vice President, IDC says ransomware protection guarantees are quite in vogue and do provide important benefits.

“It’s better to have rapid, certain and accurate recovery that avoids the need for a guarantee claim. Commvault is looking at the ransomware problem by seeking to avoid the costs associated with data breach downtime altogether through continuous, proactive threat monitoring and remediation,”

“This type of approach can help stop threats before they do real damage to the bottom line. It’s pretty simple: the only path to true resiliency is through active defence backed by bullet-proof recovery,” said Goodwin

In order to safeguard a wide range of workloads, it’s crucial to establish robust technological and engineering partnerships. In pursuit of this goal, Commvault has recently unveiled strategic collaborations with Microsoft and CyberArk to seamlessly integrate their cutting-edge security platforms with Commvault’s own technology.

Through the expansion of its security ecosystem, Commvault aims to empower organizations in bolstering their security stance by offering automated incident response, improved collaboration, and comprehensive understanding of the evolving threat landscape.

Commvault and Microsoft Sentinel bi-directional integration provides an enhanced security posture and improved collaboration between backup environments and security systems.

The new layer of interoperability for IT and SecOps teams delivers automated orchestration jointly across both systems for combined cyber event insights, actionable countermeasures, and optimised incident response.

Accroding to Clarence Hinton, Chief Strategy Officer, CyberArk compromised credentials continue to be the leading cause of cyberattacks and data exfiltration.

“Commvault’s new integration and existing plug-ins with the CyberArk Identity Security Platform help organisations follow strong Zero Trust architecture practices, deploy rigorous lifecycle credential policies and comply with the most stringent regulations,” said Hinton.

“The new secrets management integration can significantly reduce the risk of credential theft with the ability to segment credential storage away from the backup environments.” he said.

Commvault remains at the forefront of the data management and recovery landscape in an era where threats to business continuity are ever-present. Enterprisese rely on Commvault’s unwavering commitment to seamless recovery, enabling them to navigate through adversity and maintain uninterrupted operations.

Commvault’s latest security innovations will be available in Q2 through Commvault and its worldwide ecosystem of partners