Protecting Your Digital Infrastructure: The Importance of Active Directory Backup & Recovery

Why Protecting Active Directory is Critical for Cyber Resilience

Did you know that an estimated 90% of today's cyberattacks target Active Directory (AD)? It's no surprise, given that AD is the gateway to your entire digital infrastructure. A single breach can enable attackers to take control, deny access to critical applications and data, and even bring your entire network—and business—to a standstill.

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The Risk of an Active Directory Breach

A single breach of Active Directory can be catastrophic. Attackers can leverage AD to:

• Gain centralized access to your network.

• Deny access to critical applications and data.

• Bring your business to a standstill by locking down entire systems.

In fact, 95 million AD accounts are attacked daily, and 68% of these attacks involve ransomware, often breaching systems in less than 16 hours. Without a robust backup and recovery solution in place, recovering from such attacks can take days or even weeks, resulting in significant downtime and revenue loss.

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The Commvault Solution: Resilience for Active Directory

For organizations prioritizing cybersecurity and business continuity, Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Active Directory Enterprise Edition delivers unparalleled protection and recovery capabilities. Here’s how:

1. Automated Forest Recovery

Commvault automates the entire AD forest recovery process, enabling organizations to quickly restore their systems to a pre-attack state. This reduces recovery time from days to mere hours, ensuring business continuity.

2. Granular Object and Attribute-Level Restore

Whether it’s restoring a single user, group, or application registration, Commvault’s platform provides fast, granular recovery of missing, damaged, or misconfigured objects and attributes.

3. Interactive Comparison Reporting

One unique feature is the ability to compare changes in the AD domain between two points in time. This allows administrators to quickly identify and roll back unauthorized changes or recover deleted objects directly from the report.

4. Continuous Cyber Readiness

With regular disaster recovery testing and the ability to validate recovery plans in non-production environments, Commvault ensures that businesses are always prepared for the worst-case scenario.

5. Unified Protection for Hybrid Environments

Whether you’re using on-prem Active Directory or cloud-based Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), Commvault provides a single, unified solution to protect hybrid environments.

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Simplified Licensing and Storage

Commvault makes protecting Active Directory easy with straightforward licensing that covers both AD and Entra ID workloads. Plus, the solution supports Bring Your Own Storage (BYOS) options, allowing flexibility in managing backup data.

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Why Customers Trust Commvault

Organizations across industries rely on Commvault to protect their critical identity services:

“Commvault gives us confidence that our data is safe, and our important services can be up and running quickly.”– Paul Vries, IT Consultant, Bilthoven Biologicals

By streamlining AD recovery and providing unmatched flexibility, Commvault helps businesses stay resilient in the face of growing cyber threats.

Ready to Safeguard Your Active Directory?

Don’t leave the heart of your IT infrastructure vulnerable. With Commvault Cloud Backup & Recovery for Active Directory, you can ensure the security and recoverability of your critical identity services.

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