Cyber attacks are becoming more targeted, more sophisticated and more disruptive. For many organisations, the question is no longer if an attack will happen – it’s how quickly you can recover when it does.
Traditional backup recovery processes often take too long. When systems are encrypted or compromised, businesses need to restore critical data quickly and safely without introducing further risk.
Commvault Synthetic Recovery addresses this challenge. It gives organisations a faster, automated way to restore systems after a cyber attack or major outage, helping reduce downtime and restore operations with confidence.
Continue reading this blog as we introduce Synthetic Recovery further and explain how it helps organisations strengthen their cyber resilience.
What is Commvault Synthetic Recovery?
Commvault Synthetic Recovery is an automated recovery capability within the Commvault Cloud platform designed to accelerate the recovery process after a cyber incident. Instead of manually rebuilding systems and restoring data in stages, Synthetic Recovery automatically reconstructs clean, validated environments from protected data.
This allows organisations to recover systems rapidly while ensuring the restored environment is safe and uncompromised.
The solution combines backup, threat detection and automated recovery orchestration to streamline cyber recovery and minimise operational disruption.
Key features of Synthetic Recovery
Automated recovery orchestration
Synthetic Recovery automates the process of rebuilding systems following a cyber attack or data corruption event. It orchestrates the recovery workflow, including restoring applications, systems and data in the correct order.
Result: Reduces manual effort and helps ensure recovery procedures are consistent and repeatable.
Clean recovery points
One of the biggest challenges after a ransomware attack is identifying clean backup copies. Synthetic Recovery uses Commvault’s threat detection capabilities to analyse backups and identify safe recovery points.
Result: Helps prevent reinfection by ensuring restored environments are free from malicious code or compromised data.
Rapid system reconstruction
Synthetic Recovery rebuilds environments quickly by reconstructing systems from protected data rather than relying on time-consuming manual rebuild processes.
Result: Significantly reduces recovery time for critical services and applications.
Application-aware recovery
Modern IT environments include complex, interdependent systems. Synthetic Recovery supports application-aware recovery to ensure that business-critical applications are restored correctly and remain operational.
Result: Helps maintain data consistency and reduces the risk of application errors after recovery.
Automated testing and validation
Regular testing is essential to ensure recovery processes work when they are needed most.
Result: Synthetic Recovery enables automated recovery testing, allowing organisations to validate their cyber recovery plans without impacting production environments.
Benefits for organisations
Faster recovery from cyber attacks
Synthetic Recovery reduces the time required to restore systems after ransomware or data corruption incidents. Faster recovery means less downtime, reduced operational disruption and lower financial impact.
Improved cyber resilience
By combining automated recovery with threat detection and validation, Synthetic Recovery strengthens an organisation’s overall cyber resilience strategy.It ensures organisations can recover confidently after an incident.
Reduced operational complexity
Manual recovery processes can be complex and resource intensive. Synthetic Recovery simplifies recovery workflows through automation, reducing the burden on IT teams during high-pressure situations.
Greater confidence in recovery
Knowing that recovery processes have been tested and validated provides assurance that systems can be restored quickly and securely when required.
Synthetic Recovery as part of a modern cyber resilience strategy
Cyber recovery is no longer just about restoring backups. Organisations need the ability to detect threats, isolate compromised systems and rebuild environments quickly.
Commvault Synthetic Recovery forms part of a broader cyber resilience framework that integrates backup, security and automated recovery capabilities.
By adopting automated recovery technologies, organisations can move beyond traditional backup strategies and build a more resilient IT environment.
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