How Commvault Keeps Your Business Running During Cyber Attacks

21st March 2025 2 minute read

Backups ≠ Resilience

Most organisations believe that having a backup strategy means they’re safe from cyber threats. But here’s the reality—backups alone don’t make you cyber resilient.

Cyberattacks like ransomware aren’t just about stealing or encrypting data; they disrupt business operations entirely. If you can’t guarantee a clean, tested recovery in a secure environment, then you’re still at risk.

So ask yourself:
Are you actually testing your recovery plans in a real-world scenario?
How long would it take you to recover your entire environment after a ransomware attack?
Can you confidently say that business will continue—even in the middle of a cyberattack?

If you cannot answer “yes” to all of these, it’s time to rethink your cyber resilience strategy.

Why Traditional Backups Fail in a Cyberattack

Backing up of data does not ensure business continuity after an attack. Here’s why focusing on backup doesn’t solve the problem:

Backups Can Be Compromised – If ransomware has already infected your environment, restoring from backups can reintroduce malware into your systems. In addition, real-world evidence shows that cyber-criminals actively target backups in a breach to ensure an organisation has no alternative to paying the ransom demand.

No Clean Recovery Environment – Traditional backup solutions don’t provide a secure, isolated space to test and validate recoveries. Recovery testing of traditional backups involve complexities around downtime of a production environment, or worse, restrict an organisation to simulation, table top exercise, or checklist.

Slow & Manual Recovery – Many organisations struggle with complex recovery processes, leading to days or weeks of downtime. Most organisations struggle with surviving in the face of a 24 hour outage, let alone the month or more it can take to rebuild infrastructure, restore operating systems, reinstall applications and connectivity, and restore data

If you’re using backup tools, ask yourself:

Do I have a clean recovery environment?
How can I guarantee a ransomware-free restore?
Can I rebuild entire cloud applications, not just restore data?

If you cannot answer these questions, the tools are not built for true resilience.

Commvault: The Only Solution Built for Cyber Resilience

Commvault goes beyond backups. Cleanroom Recovery, Cloud Rewind, and Automated Recovery Processes ensure that businesses can recover quickly, safely, and with confidence.

🔹 Cleanroom Recovery: Commvault is the only vendor offering a secure, air-gapped testing environment where you can test, validate and recover applications without reinfection.

🔹 Cloud Rewind: Rapidly rebuild your entire cloud infrastructure —applications, workloads, and configurations—so you can get back to business faster.

🔹 Automated Recovery Processes: AI-driven workflows reduce manual recovery time from days to hours, so you don’t lose valuable time during a crisis.

Your Resilience Test: Are You Ready?

If a cyberattack happened today, could you:

Recover clean, ransomware-free data?
Rebuild applications in minutes, not days?
Continue business operations—without waiting on IT?

If you’re unsure, Commvault can help you test your resiliency—before an attack happens.

Take the Next Step:

🔹 Sign up for a free resiliency assessment – Find out if your recovery plan works.
🔹 Talk to an expert – Let’s build a strategy that ensures business continuity.

Ready to rest your recovery plan? Contact Craig Sargent, our Commvault Business Development Manager, today:

Email: craig.sargent@dickerdata.co.nz

Phone: 021 312 714