Cyber resilience has become a board-level priority. Not because failure is inevitable, but because the cost of being unprepared is no longer theoretical.
As cloud adoption accelerates, organizations gain flexibility and speed. They also expand their attack surface in ways traditional backup and recovery approaches were not built to handle. Data is more distributed. Threats are more targeted. And attackers are no longer just encrypting production environments. They are going after recovery infrastructure, because organizations with intact, validated backups are harder to extort.
The question is no longer whether a cyber incident will occur. It is whether the organization can absorb disruption, recover cleanly, and keep moving.
The organizations that come out ahead are not the ones that avoided every attack. They are the ones that were ready when disruption arrived.
That readiness does not happen by accident. It requires proven technology, thoughtful architecture, and an operating model that has been tested before the incident, not assembled during one. That is the combined value Commvault and Presidio bring to the table.
Two Roles. One Outcome.
Most organizations understand cyber resilience in principle. Fewer have fully operationalized it. The gap is rarely a single technology problem. It is an execution problem: the space between owning capable tools and having those tools configured, governed, tested, and trusted in the environment that actually runs the business.
Commvault provides the resilience platform.
Commvault delivers cyber resilience capabilities across the data protection stack, including immutable and air-gapped copies, granular and point-in-time recovery, clean recovery, isolated recovery environments, recovery validation, and support for emerging AI workloads. These capabilities help organizations preserve trusted recovery points when production systems, identities, or automation workflows are compromised.
Presidio provides the expertise and execution.
Presidio helps translate Commvault technology into a resilience posture that works in real enterprise environments. That means designing the right architecture, integrating it with existing security and cloud platforms, mapping it to business priorities, and building the operational processes needed to test and improve readiness over time.
Together, Commvault and Presidio help organizations move from fragmented, reactive recovery toward a unified resilience posture that has been designed, tested, and validated before it is needed.
The Four Pillars of Cyber Resilience
A complete cyber resilience strategy depends on four connected capabilities. Each addresses a distinct layer of the challenge. Commvault provides the platform capabilities, and Presidio helps operationalize them across the customer environment.
Pillar 1: Logical Air Gap and Immutable Storage
Every resilient strategy begins with data integrity. If backup data can be altered or deleted by the same compromise that affects production, recovery options disappear with it.
Commvault AirGap helps create isolated, immutable data copies that are separate from source environments and protected by layered controls. Presidio works with customers to implement that protection in a way that fits existing security architecture, cloud strategy, retention requirements, and operational workflows.
Pillar 2: Isolated Recovery Environment
Recovery cannot happen safely in an environment that may still contain an active threat. Restoring clean data into a compromised network can repeat the incident instead of resolving it.
Commvault Cleanroom Recovery provides an isolated environment where teams can test, investigate, validate, and recover before returning systems or data to production. Presidio helps design and integrate that cleanroom approach across hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems so it is operationally usable under pressure.
Pillar 3: Cyber Recovery Plan
Technology without a plan is not resilience. During an incident, teams need defined roles, clear decision points, known dependencies, and recovery steps that have already been tested against business priorities.
Commvault capabilities support structured recovery across critical data, applications, identity, and cloud services. Presidio helps build the runbooks, stakeholder alignment, minimum viable business requirements, and operating procedures that turn recovery tooling into an executable plan.
Pillar 4: Chaos Testing and Recovery Validation
The only way to trust a resilience posture is to test it. Assumptions about recovery are liabilities. Validated recovery capabilities are assets.
Commvault supports recovery testing, clean recovery point analysis, and validation workflows that help prove whether data and applications can return to a known-good state. Presidio leads structured exercises modeled on realistic scenarios, including ransomware, insider events, cloud control-plane disruption, identity compromise, and accidental data destruction.
Protecting Against AI Agent Missteps
The next major data-loss event may not begin with a ransom note. It may begin with an AI agent that has legitimate access, a broad objective, and insufficient guardrails.
As organizations adopt agentic AI, more systems will be able to take action on behalf of users: update records, move files, modify code, trigger workflows, tune configurations, or clean up data at scale. That can create enormous efficiency. It also creates a new class of operational risk. A mis-scoped agent, bad prompt, flawed integration, compromised credential, or poorly tested automation chain could delete, overwrite, corrupt, or reclassify critical data before a human notices.
This is not only a security problem. It is a recoverability problem. Identity controls, approval workflows, monitoring, and AI governance are essential, but no preventive control is perfect. Organizations also need confidence that they can return affected data, configurations, pipelines, and dependent systems to a trusted point in time.
Commvault can provide a practical protection layer for this scenario by preserving immutable, air-gapped recovery points that an agent cannot simply rewrite or delete; enabling granular and point-in-time recovery when only a subset of data was affected; helping teams validate clean recovery points before restoring; and extending resilience across AI-related assets such as datasets, model artifacts, retrieval indexes, configurations, pipelines, and supporting infrastructure.
For example, if an AI agent bulk-deletes documents, rewrites customer records incorrectly, damages a data lake used for analytics, or corrupts a vector database used by a generative AI application, the business needs more than a generic backup. It needs a known-good recovery point, the ability to understand what changed, a clean place to validate the restoration, and a plan for returning the right data without reintroducing the problem.
Presidio helps customers design that operating model. That includes identifying the data and systems exposed to agentic workflows, mapping agent permissions and blast radius, aligning Commvault protection policies to business impact, defining rollback and recovery procedures, and testing AI-agent failure scenarios before they become real incidents.
AI agents should make the business faster. They should not make data loss faster. Cyber resilience is the control plane that helps ensure automation can be adopted with confidence.
Why This Matters Now
Four forces are making cyber resilience more urgent than it has ever been.
1. Cloud sprawl has expanded the attack surface: Data now lives across dozens of environments, services, and providers. Many organizations lack consistent protection policies and full visibility into where critical data resides.
2. Attackers have become recovery-aware: Modern ransomware is designed to find and disrupt backup and recovery infrastructure before triggering broader damage. A recovery strategy that was sufficient two years ago may not be sufficient now.
3. AI is accelerating both threats and mistakes: Adversaries can use AI to accelerate reconnaissance, social engineering, and lateral movement. Internal teams can also use AI agents to move faster than traditional change controls were designed to govern. Resilience programs must account for both malicious activity and unintended automation impact.
4. AI-native security tools are expanding into recovery, but detection is not resilience: The security market is moving fast. Vendors are embedding AI agents into threat detection and response workflows, promising convergence between endpoint protection and data recovery. That convergence has real value at the detection layer. But an agent that identifies a threat is not a platform that can recover from one.
Detecting what changed is not the same as validating clean backup copies, isolating recovery from an active threat, or retur
ning specific workloads to a known-good state. These require a purpose-built resilience platform. Commvault delivers the full recovery lifecycle, immutable and air-gapped copies, granular point-in-time recovery, clean recovery validation, and coverage across cloud, on-premises, and AI workloads. Commvault’s integration with CrowdStrike Falcon brings threat intelligence directly into the recovery workflow, allowing teams to correlate detection signals with recovery point selection — a capability that purpose-built detection tools cannot replicate on their own. Presidio, as a partner to both, helps customers architect that integration across their environment and pressure-test those capabilities against real recovery scenarios, so the gap between what a vendor claims and what actually executes under pressure becomesvisible before an incident does.
The cost of failure has grown
The financial, reputational, operational, and regulatory consequences of failed or delayed recovery have increased significantly. In many industries, demonstrating recovery readiness is becoming a requirement, not just a best practice.
Cyber resilience is no longer only about restoring data. It is about maintaining business continuity, protecting customer trust, and demonstrating operational confidence to regulators, partners, insurers, and the board.
Built for Readiness
Commvault and Presidio share a common goal: helping organizations build resilience that holds under real pressure.
Commvault brings a platform with purpose-built capabilities across the resilience stack. Presidio brings the advisory, architecture, integration, and operational expertise to make those capabilities work in environments that are complex, distributed, and constantly changing.
The result is a partnership built around a measurable outcome: organizations that are prepared before cyber disruption happens and able to respond with speed and confidence when it does.
Readiness is not a destination. It is a discipline. And it starts before the incident.
Take the Next Step: Presidio Cyber Resilience Workshop
The best time to test a recovery strategy is before the business is depending on it.
Presidio offers a Cyber Resilience Workshop designed to help organizations assess their current posture, identify recovery gaps, and build a practical roadmap for improvement. The workshop brings together IT, security, cloud, infrastructure, application, and business stakeholders to evaluate how resilient the organization really is across the full recovery lifecycle.
Typical workshop focus areas include critical data and application mapping, immutable and air-gapped backup design, isolated recovery strategy, clean recovery validation, cyber recovery runbooks, minimum viable business recovery, identity and cloud recovery dependencies, AI-agent data protection scenarios, and a prioritized action plan.
For organizations already using Commvault, the workshop can help validate whether the platform is aligned to the current threat model and business priorities. For organizations evaluating their next step, it provides a structured way to understand what good looks like and where to start.
To schedule a Presidio Cyber Resilience Workshop or learn more about the Commvault and Presidio joint offering, contact your Presidio account team or visit https://www.presidio.com/partners/commvault/.
Eric Bursley is Director of Data Center GTM at Presidio Network Solutions, responsible for data center and data protection strategy with a focus on AI infrastructure, NVIDIA and Intel AI hardware solutions, and enterprise data protection.
