Recovering a Corrupted Active Directory: From Failures to a System Reboot
Preparing for Active Directory Outages: A Guide for Businesses
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, understanding and addressing IT challenges, cybersecurity risks, and AI implications is crucial for businesses. A comprehensive report, the Future Focus 2025, offers valuable insights on these matters, and you can access it for free by signing up for the platform's daily newsletter.
One of the key areas of focus in the report is the importance of Active Directory (AD), the backbone of enterprise identity and access management, and the potential risks associated with its outage. To prepare businesses for the worst-case scenario, Commvault experts are hosting a webinar that aims to simulate a real-world AD outage and provide solutions to accelerate AD restoration and business operations.
The webinar will demonstrate the automation of AD forest recovery solution, teach tools and tactics to streamline recovery, minimize downtime, and protect access to essential systems. It will also showcase the cascading effects of AD failure and provide solutions to address these issues effectively.
To ensure a swift and efficient recovery of AD, best practices include:
- Choosing a reliable backup solution that supports granular restore options, optimizing storage and speed with incremental/differential backups.
- Implementing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to restrict backup and recovery operations to a few trusted administrators.
- Encrypting backup data and securely managing encryption keys to protect data integrity and confidentiality.
- Regularly testing backup integrity and recovery procedures to validate backup usability and ensure fast, reliable recovery during an actual failure.
- Utilizing automated recovery workflows for efficient sequencing of restoration of multiple domain controllers and system state data.
- Establishing a formal disaster recovery process, including staff authorization to declare disasters, clear communication protocols, and predefined steps for disaster site activation and prioritized data and service restoration.
- Prioritizing critical business processes and their supporting systems through Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and tiered recovery strategies.
- Maintaining secure, redundant backup storage and aligning recovery procedures to defined Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) to meet agreed service levels efficiently.
By combining technical measures with governance and business alignment, supported by routine testing and communication protocols, businesses can minimize downtime and business impact during AD or infrastructure failures.
In the event of an AD outage, the entire business can go down, making minimizing downtime during recovery essential to quickly get the business back online. The recovery of AD is also crucial for a comprehensive cyber recovery plan.
Don't miss the opportunity to learn more about accelerating AD recovery and preparing your business for the worst-case scenario. Register for Commvault's webinar today.
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