In the current digital age where data breaches and cyber threats loom at every corner it’s not just important to safeguard your organization’s data integrity is not just a necessity, it’s a race against time.
In today’s IT environment you are always living with the permanent question of; Are my backups clean? Free of ransomware? Which point-in-time can I safely restore without reinfection?
Ransomware can take a long time to surface and can be sleeping and sitting within your systems for weeks before finally striking.
What is Commvault Cleanroom Recovery?
Commvault is solving one of the largest and most critical problems in the IT industry today by announcing Commvault Cleanroom Recovery!
What it is you may ask? We’ll talk about this in detail in this blog post.
Commvault Cleanroom Recovery is a cloud-based, secure environment that provides a malware-free haven for your data. Ensuring that your data can be recovered in a ransomware-free state and ready to resume business operations without skipping a beat or missing a step.
Commvault provides you with secure and quick recovery of applications into an on-demand cleanroom to make sure your data is clean. This is done using a couple of different processes to determine what was your last clean restore point. For example, You can see whether the size of your data changed dramatically between two different incrementals, or you have some massive file extension changes.
They also use AI/ML validation processes to detect whether your data is clean and determine your last clean restore point. Things like this could perhaps take you a few days for a single system, and a lot longer of hundreds or even thousands of VMs? It would be an Impossible task for the average person and a near impossible task for an IT guy like you or I!
Commvault software can even automatically flag the data which isn’t clean if you wish, and can also quarantine that data too. You can use the cleanroom as a DR test site and investigate whether your data is clean, before putting it back in the production environment. You can then leave it for forensic guys to use that space to determine the exact day and direction where the point of infection/attack came from.
If you work and live in the IT space a long time you will know that in the past we did not care that much about ransomware, but rather were much more focused on disaster recovery (DR).
Now with cyberattacks today you cannot trust data anymore. You cannot assume that data on your DR site is clean anymore. You simply don’t know if it is clean or if you’ll be re-infecting yourself again when failing over to the DR site.
Why Choose Commvault Cleanroom Recovery?
Isolated Recovery – With an isolated recovery control plane, your data is not just restored. You can have a look and see what has been restored and if it’s clean. You can have people do forensics within this clean environment and see when the threads of suspect activity have appeared.
Guaranteed Recovery – Frequent testing ensures that your data is always ready for a clean recovery, providing you with peace of mind and compliance with auditable evidence.
Affordable Testing – Say goodbye to costly dedicated infrastructure. Commvault Cleanroom Recovery offers instant cloud readiness, allowing for affordable and frequent recovery testing.
The Commvault Advantage
Air-Gapping – Your data is stored in isolated copies, separate from source environments, creating a virtually air-gapped storage solution.
Immutable Design – Multi-layered zero-trust access controls ensure that your backups are untouchable and unchangeable.
Built-in Automation – Simplify your operations with automation and orchestration, making implementation a breeze.
Resilient Ransomware Protection – With built-in anomaly detection and encryption of data at-rest and in-flight, your data’s security is uncompromised.
Data is not stored in the same format as it exists within your workloads, but rather in the agnostic format to the platform they are stored. It means for Azure it is in the blobs, and immutable. The interesting part is that their data plane is separated from the control plane.
This quick blog post provides a glimpse into the robust capabilities of Commvault Cleanroom Recovery. For a deeper dive into how it can protect your organization’s data, visit the official Commvault website.
Link to the press release here.
Commvault is at RSA Conference!
If you’re interested in cybersecurity or planning on attending RSA Conference, you can visit Commvault’s booths and check out some demos of Cleanroom.
Visit Commvault at North Expo Booths #N-5778 & #N-4308.
May 6-9, 2024 | Moscone Center | San Francisco, CA
Attending RSA Conference, especially with a focus on Commvault’s presence, can be a highly beneficial experience for several reasons:
Knowledge Expansion – The RSA Conference offers a plethora of sessions covering a wide range of cybersecurity topics. This is an opportunity to stay abreast of the latest trends, threats, and solutions in the industry.
Networking Opportunities – It’s a gathering of some of the brightest minds in cybersecurity. You can engage with peers, exchange ideas, and potentially forge connections that could lead to future opportunities.
Innovation Showcase – With over 600 vendors, including Commvault, the conference is a hotspot for discovering the latest in cybersecurity technology and services.
Group Collaboration – If attending as part of a team, the conference facilitates team collaboration and strategy alignment, maximizing the learning and discovery potential for your organization.
Commvault Cleanroom Recovery – Specifically, Commvault’s showcase at the RSA Conference is introducing the first and only cleanroom for cyber recovery. It’s a chance to experience their cutting-edge solution for ensuring cyber resilience.
Special Events – Commvault is hosting events that offer additional insights into cybersecurity topics and provide a platform for networking and enjoyment, like the RSA Kickoff Party and Public Sector Day.
More info here.
Wrap Up
Commvault Cleanroom Recovery is more than just a recovery service. It’s a commitment to cyber resilience. It’s the assurance that no matter what comes your way, your data is secure, recoverable, and above all, clean.
This is the future and the future is now. We have to live with ransomware, but we now have good tools/weapons to fight it. Embrace the future of data recovery with Commvault Cleanroom Recovery, and turn the tide against cyber threats.
The fact that they use Azure means you can scale out with ease. You are not limited with the size of your DR site if you have many applications to recover at the same time. You can build your recovery environment on-demand so you don’t pay for running workloads somewhere in the cloud, or servers on DR site that costs money on hardware, licenses and operational costs.
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