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Commvault Active Directory Protection
The first domino, protected — automated AD forest recovery, Entra ID and Okta backup, rehearsed in isolation until the worst day is boring.
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Commvault Cloud's identity resilience protects the thing every recovery plan silently assumes: Active Directory, Entra ID and Okta. Automated AD forest recovery turns the hardest restore in IT — a multi-domain forest rebuild that takes unpracticed teams days — into an orchestrated, rehearsable runbook; granular recovery restores the deleted OU or mangled GPO without touching the rest; and continuous protection for Entra ID and Okta covers the cloud identities native recycle bins only pretend to. When ransomware hits, AD is the first domino — this product is the plan for it.
The Commvault platform family
This page covers AD & Identity protection. The rest of the eight-product portfolio:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Active Directory & Identity protection — Commvault Cloud
- Vendor
- Commvault (est. 1996 · NASDAQ: CVLT · 15x Gartner MQ Leader)
- Scope
- AD forests & domains · Entra ID · Okta
- Signature
- Automated forest recovery — orchestrated, rehearsable
- Granular
- Objects, attributes, OUs and GPOs — restored surgically
- Cloud identity
- Entra ID objects, roles, policies; Okta configuration
- Why it matters
- Attackers hit identity first — everything authenticates against it
- Rehearsal
- Forest-recovery drills without touching production
- Platform
- Rides Commvault Cloud — same console as everything else
- In India via
- TechBag — quotes, PoCs, GST invoicing, Tier-1 support
Understand identity resilience before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is identity resilience?
Backup and recovery for the identity estate itself — Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta: the systems everything else authenticates against.
It spans surgical restores (objects, GPOs, policies) to the ultimate case: automated recovery of an entire AD forest, rehearsed in isolation until it’s boring.
Heroic manual recovery vs orchestrated resilience — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Tombstones, memory & 47-page guides | Identity resilience (Commvault) |
|---|---|---|
| The assumption | 'Restore from backup' — which needs a login | Identity recovered first, by plan |
| Forest down | Days of manual FSMO surgery by memory | Orchestrated rebuild in hours |
| Deleted objects | Tombstone spelunking, attributes lost | Surgical restore, replication-safe |
| Broken GPO | Rebuild it from screenshots | Versioned rollback |
| Entra policies | No native undo at all | Captured and restorable |
| Rehearsal | 'We have a document' | Quarterly isolated drills |
| Evidence | Hope the auditor doesn't ask | Drill reports on file |
| The 3 a.m. question | Which hero remembers the order? | The orchestrator does |
Adoption is incremental — capture first, granular saves immediately, and the first rehearsal converts the runbook from rumour to capability.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Forest Map
Domains, DCs, FSMO roles and trusts inventoried continuously — the recovery plan knows the forest better than the wiki does.
Recovery Orchestrator
Forest recovery as orchestration: DC rebuild order, role seizure, metadata cleanup and validation executed as automation, not tribal memory at 3 a.m.
Object Store
Objects, attributes, OUs and GPOs versioned — the deleted service account or mangled group policy restored without collateral.
Cloud Identity Arm
Users, groups, roles, conditional-access policies and app registrations captured continuously — hybrid identity protected as one estate.
Rehearsal Mode
Forest-recovery drills into isolated environments — the muscle memory that separates a bad day from a career event.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Protect, recover, assure.
Commvault replaces the 3 a.m. hero requirement — and the recycle-bin theatre — with recovery that has been rehearsed.
Automated Forest Recovery
The signature: multi-domain forest rebuild orchestrated end to end — DC order, FSMO seizure, metadata cleanup — hours instead of unpracticed days.
Object & Attribute Restore
The deleted service account, the purged OU, the attribute someone 'cleaned up' — restored surgically, replication-safe.
GPO Backup & Restore
Group Policy Objects versioned and restorable — the Friday-evening GPO edit that broke login for everyone, rolled back by Monday's coffee.
Entra ID Protection
Users, groups, roles, conditional-access policies and app registrations — the cloud identities Microsoft's 30-day recycle bin only half-covers.
Okta Configuration Backup
Continuous immutable backup of the Okta org — the IdP's own configuration finally has a recovery story.
Hybrid Identity, One Estate
On-prem AD and cloud identity protected under one policy and console — because your identity estate is hybrid whether you meant it or not.
Continuous Forest Inventory
DCs, roles, trusts and sites mapped continuously — recovery planning against reality, not the diagram from 2021.
Recovery Rehearsals
Forest-recovery drills into isolated environments on schedule — the difference between a runbook and a rumour.
Change Visibility
Who changed what in the directory, when — the forensic trail identity incidents always demand and native logs rarely keep long enough.
Malware-Aware Identity Copies
Platform threat discipline applied to identity backups — so the forest you restore isn't the forest the attacker already owned.
Documented, Exportable Plans
The recovery sequence as living documentation — the artifact auditors, insurers and new hires all ask for.
Cleanroom & Platform Attach
Rebuild the forest inside Cleanroom Recovery's isolated environment — identity and infrastructure recovery rehearsed as one motion.
Watch identity recovery in action
Official demos — forest recovery, granular AD/Entra restore and the identity-first attack pattern.
Automated Active Directory Forest Recovery
The hardest restore in IT, orchestrated end to end.
Quickly Recover Active Directory & Entra ID
Granular and cloud-identity recovery in practice.
Identity Resilience: Protecting AD & Entra ID from Attack
The identity-first attack pattern and the resilience answer.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough on your own fleet?
Book a guided demo →Every DR plan assumes a login. Attackers read your plan first.
Here’s what genuinely sets Commvault Identity apart from the alternatives.
It covers the first domino
Attackers hit AD first because everything authenticates against it — and every DR plan that starts with 'log in and…' assumes the thing that just died. This product is the plan for that moment.
Forest recovery, de-heroed
Manual forest recovery is days of FSMO seizures and metadata surgery performed by whoever remembers — orchestration turns it into hours of supervised automation. The hero requirement is the bug; this removes it.
Rehearsal is the product
An unrehearsed forest recovery is a rumour with a runbook. Isolated drills — quarterly, without production risk — build the muscle memory that makes the real day survivable.
Hybrid identity, honestly covered
Entra ID's recycle bin doesn't cover conditional-access policies, roles or app registrations; Okta's config has no native undo. The cloud half of your identity estate finally gets adult protection.
The daily wins pay the bill
Deleted service accounts, mangled GPOs, attribute 'cleanups' — granular restore resolves the weekly identity incidents in minutes, while the forest capability waits for the day you hope never comes.
One platform with the rest
Identity recovery rehearses inside Cleanroom, evidence exports with everything else, and the auditor hears one story — not a Semperis stack bolted beside a backup stack.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Commvault Identity journey looks like
Identity census
Forest topology, DC inventory, Entra/Okta estate and the current recovery plan's honesty audited — TechBag scopes it free.
Protection live
AD, Entra and Okta capture running; granular restore validated on test objects and a sacrificial GPO.
The first rehearsal
Forest recovery drilled into an isolated environment — the recovery order validated against reality, findings folded back into the runbook.
Rehearsed steady state
Drills on schedule, evidence on file, cyber-insurance and audit questions pre-answered. TechBag manages renewals.
Trusted across regulated industries in 100+ countries
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Ransomware took the DCs on a Friday night. The orchestrated forest recovery had authentication back by Saturday afternoon — the runbook we'd rehearsed twice ran almost boringly.”
“A script 'cleanup' deleted 400 service accounts. Granular restore had them back — with attributes and group memberships — before the batch jobs noticed.”
“Our first rehearsal found that the documented recovery order was wrong. Finding that in a drill instead of an incident is the whole product.”
“Entra conditional-access policies got mangled in a change window. Native tools shrugged; the backup restored the policy set in minutes.”
“The GPO rollback alone has saved three weekends this year.”
“Cyber insurance asked pointed questions about AD recovery. The rehearsal reports answered them — the premium conversation went noticeably better.”
“Semperis goes deeper on attack-path analysis; this integrates recovery with the backup estate we already run. We chose one platform over one more vendor.”
“Okta config backup felt niche until a rogue admin change locked out SSO. It is not niche.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the identity resilience market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Identity-Resilience Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Forest recovery + cloud identity on the platform you already run — this page's subject.
Recovery Depth × Platform Lightness
The grid nobody publishes — identity-recovery depth vs whether it adds a whole new vendor stack.
Deep recovery + rehearsal at platform-attach lightness.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Commvault vs the identity-recovery field
The specialist (Semperis), the veteran (Quest) and the warning (native tools) — honest lanes for each.
| Dimension | Commvault | Semperis | Quest RMAD | Cayosoft | Native tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage & focus | Identity on the backup platform | The AD-security specialist | The AD-recovery veteran | Hybrid-AD management | Recycle bin + prayers |
| Automated forest recovery | Orchestrated + rehearsable | Excellent | Proven | Capable | Manual heroics |
| Attack-path / identity threat detection | Change visibility + platform hooks | The benchmark | Some | Monitoring | None |
| Entra ID & Okta coverage | Both, with policies | Entra-deep | Entra basics | Hybrid-strong | 30-day bin |
| Platform integration | One console with backup + Cleanroom | Standalone stack | Standalone | Standalone | It's Windows |
| Economics | Platform attach | Premium specialist | Per-user licensing | Suite pricing | Free |
| Best fit | Commvault estates & consolidators | ITDR-led programmes | AD-recovery traditionalists | Hybrid-AD ops teams | Nobody with stakes |
Which identity-resilience path fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Commvault if…
- ✓You run (or are adopting) Commvault Cloud — identity joins the platform
- ✓Forest recovery must be orchestrated AND rehearsed, not documented
- ✓Entra/Okta configuration needs real backup, not recycle bins
- ✓One audit story across data and identity appeals
Choose Semperis if…
- ✓Identity threat detection (ITDR) depth is the priority
- ✓Budget accommodates the specialist stack
Choose Quest RMAD if…
- ✓A traditional AD-recovery point tool suits your estate
Choose Cayosoft if…
- ✓Hybrid AD management-plus-recovery is the shape of the need
Native tools if…
- ✓You enjoy tombstone spelunking at 3 a.m. (included as a warning)
What does identity fragility cost you?
Drag the sliders (count identity objects in thousands ≈ users; use IT-hour cost as loaded ops rate). Estimates assume ~0.5 hours per user per year across account-recovery incidents, GPO accidents and audit evidence, with ~60% removed by granular restore and rehearsed runbooks — the forest-down day is priced separately by your revenue per hour. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Priced as a platform attach on Commvault Cloud. TechBag folds it into the package mapping with GST invoicing.
AD protection
Best for the on-prem estate
- Objects, GPOs, forest recovery
- Rehearsal into isolation
- Granular daily-driver restores
+ Entra & Okta
Best for hybrid identity
- CA policies, roles, app registrations
- Okta org-config backup
- One console across the estate
+ Cleanroom pairing
Best for cyber-recovery programmes
- Forest drills inside Cleanroom
- Evidence for insurers & auditors
- TechBag scopes the bundle
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your device counts and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every identity-resilience vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Read your DR plan and highlight every step that assumes authentication works. That highlighted list is your exposure.
PoC success = one full forest-recovery rehearsal in isolation, timed. A document is not a capability.
Restore a deleted service account WITH group memberships and attributes intact — the daily incident, done right.
Break a test GPO and roll it back. Time it.
Export, delete and restore a conditional-access policy in the test tenant — the native bin won't help you here.
If Okta is your IdP: verify org-config backup and a restore path exist at all. Most estates have neither.
Ask your cyber insurer what AD-recovery evidence they want — drill reports usually improve the conversation.
Need attack-path analytics too? Scope Semperis alongside honestly — different question, sometimes both.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Commvault Identity?
Scope a PoC that ends in a rehearsed forest recovery, or bring your DR plan and let a TechBag advisor highlight every step that assumes a login.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.