Threat Scan x Cleanroom Recovery: Maintaining Data Integrity for Proactive and Confident Recoveries

For today's businesses, disaster no longer wears the face of fire or flood; it strikes silently, in the form of a cyberattack. And with cyberattacks per organization increasing by a staggering 47% in Q1 2025 alone, the question is no longer if you'll be targeted, but when.

Similarly, as ransomware becomes more frequent, recovery has evolved into an exercise of trust. Trust in your security capabilities. Trust in your ability to recover. Trust that you're not welcoming back compromised data when you restore. But how can you be sure your backup isn't already infected? How can you objectively build "trust"?

In an era where threats hide seamlessly in plain sight, blind trust is a risk no business can afford. This is the harsh reality of modern cyber resilience: Speed matters, but cleanliness is critical.

This is where Commvault® Cloud Threat Scan and Cleanroom™ Recovery emerge as a powerful pairing. Together, they enable organizations to recover with speed AND confidence. With clean recovery becoming the new golden standard, this duo makes one thing clear: Fast is good, but clean is non-negotiable.

A Closer Look at the Numbers: The Dangers of Downtime

Downtime doesn't just stall operations; it breaks down trust, shakes confidence, and stops your business in its tracks. Whether it's ransomware, data corruption, or insider threats, the aftermath often comes with a hefty price tag.

The numbers don't lie. According to IBM, the average global cost of a data breach is $4.88 million. Extended outages cause even further issues. Enterprise Management Associates recently reported that the average cost of downtime is roughly $14,056 per minute, rising to $23,750 for large organizations of more than 10,000 employees.

But that's not all. With the immense pressure that downtime brings, many businesses may rush to restore systems using backups that look clean but are silently infected. Recovering infected backups can lead to reinfection, cascading failures, and a costly second wave of compromise. This ultimately extends the initial downtime caused by the incident.

In short, without visibility and control, clean recovery becomes less of a certainty and more of a gamble.

Becoming a Continuous Business: Cleanroom Recovery

In this high-stakes landscape where clean data is integral, Cleanroom Recovery is a secure, on-demand, isolated environment purpose-built for confident recovery after a cyber event.

Cleanroom Recovery enables teams to:

• Spin up a clean, air-gapped space to perform detailed forensics.
• Test cyber recovery plans and workflows through simulations with real data.
• Keep up with the latest compliance regulations.
• Execute production-grade recovery only after full verification.

Since a newly spun-up instance cannot contain hidden threats, this isolated environment allows businesses to operate with confidence. It also serves as the ideal space for security teams to run their own analyses, test system behavior, and rehearse responses. With these capabilities, Cleanroom is more than a mere environment; it's the very foundation of a continuous business.

A New Era of Confidence: Threat Scan Integration with Cleanroom Recovery

As cybersecurity grows in complexity to counter ever-evolving ransomware, solutions that bolster cyber resilience need to be smart, inherently secure, and work in synergy with the broader security stack. This is precisely why integrating Threat Scan with Cleanroom Recovery makes perfect sense.

Commvault's intelligent threat detection engine, Threat Scan, analyzes backups for indicators of compromise before recovery. By surfacing malware, identifying encryptions, and flagging suspicious changes, Threat Scan enables you to identify the last known good version of data estates. Ultimately, this helps you to speed up recoveries while avoiding reinfecting recovered infrastructure in production.

Here's how Threat Scan provides comprehensive coverage to:

• Anomaly and encryption detection: Threat Scan monitors for suspicious patterns in backup behavior like off-hour jobs or sudden spikes in file volume, which are often the first signs of compromise. Powered by AI-enhanced behavioral and statistical models, it also analyzes file metadata and randomness patterns to identify signs of malicious encryption.
  
  
• Root-cause tracing and malware scanning: Integrated with leading antivirus engines, Threat Scan identifies and traces malware back to patient zero, revealing the full scope of infection and helping teams stop it at the source.
  
  
• AI vs. AI with Threat Scan Predict: Ransomware learns, adapts, and hides behind ever-shifting patterns. Threat Scan Predict counters this with AI trained to detect emerging, evasive behaviors. It spots what traditional tools miss, helping you stay ahead of threats designed to outsmart human and machine defenses alike.
  
  
• Third-party security integrations: Tight integration with platforms like CrowdStrike, Cisco, Netskope, and Darktrace enriches Threat Scan with external threat intelligence. This creates a complete feedback loop between detection and recovery.

• Restore point classification: Backups are automatically labeled with correlating levels of risk as they are created, giving IT teams a real-time timeline of safe recovery points.

Together, Threat Scan and Cleanroom Recovery turn recovery into an intelligence-driven process and not a blind leap of faith. It's the difference between crossing your fingers and making a fully informed decision. And for many businesses, it's the difference between long-term success and organizational failure.

A Cyber Recovery Flow That Works

When integrated, Threat Scan and Cleanroom Recovery deliver a clear, repeatable recovery process designed to minimize downtime and help eliminate doubt.

Here's a glimpse of how you can leverage these solutions to create a foolproof recovery plan:

• Preparation is key: Build and test a comprehensive recovery plan.
• Immediate action: Detect, isolate, and assess threats quickly.
• Data integrity: Confirm backups are clean and secure.
• Gradual reintegration: Reconnect systems cautiously, and monitor for threats.
• Continuous improvement: Learn from each incident to enhance your security posture.

Looking Ahead: Clean Recovery Is the New Must-Have

As threats continually evolve and pose significant challenges, recovery has become a strategic imperative for success. When the stakes are this high, there's no room for guesswork or second chances. The way you recover from cyberattacks determines the course of your entire business.

In this landscape, Cleanroom Recovery and Threat Scan shift recovery from reactive to proactive, from hopeful to provable. Together, they empower organizations to recover not only faster but also smarter.

Learn more about how we can help your organization with clean recovery here.