🟠High  | Source: The Register — Security
Commvault is urging organisations to fundamentally rethink their resilience strategies as AI-powered attackers increasingly target backup and recovery infrastructure, leaving victims unable to recover. The warning highlights that traditional backup plans are insufficient if they are not regularly tested under realistic attack conditions. As ransomware operators and AI-assisted threat actors specifically seek out and corrupt backup systems, untested recovery capabilities offer a false sense of security.
Architect’s Take: Conduct adversarial recovery testing — specifically simulate scenarios where backup infrastructure is compromised or unavailable — and ensure immutable, air-gapped backup copies exist outside the blast radius of your primary cloud environment. Review your recovery time objectives against actual tested recovery performance, not theoretical estimates.
Original advisory: Commvault says it’s time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a ‘dark, dead’ state