Commvault AI Simulation: Minutes to Recovery for Cyberattacks

Commvault has launched a new cyber resilience simulation to help organizations practice responding to AI-driven cyberattacks. This exercise, called "Minutes to Recovery," has participants play the roles of attacker, defender, and recovery specialist. Here's the thing: The simulation aims to test recovery capabilities under pressure. It addresses the trend of shrinking time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, which could be as little as 29 minutes by 2025. The exercise has three phases. First, participants use generative AI to launch a cyberattack, understanding how AI personalizes phishing and scales attacks. Next, IT and security teams make detection and incident response decisions with limited information. The final phase focuses on restoring systems and data to a clean state. What's interesting is that organizations receive a benchmark called Mean Time to Clean Recovery, or MTCR, after completing the simulation. This measures the time needed to return to a secure operational environment. The bottom line: This hands-on exercise helps organizations identify weaknesses in their incident response and recovery processes before a real cyber incident happens.