As attacks become much more rapid, organizations need more than just recovery plans – they need proven recovery preparation. The time frame between the discovery of a vulnerability and its active exploitation, which was previously measured in days, has been reduced to just 29 minutes in 2025, 65% faster than the previous year.
Aware of this, Commvault has announced “Commvault Minutes to Recovery”, a scenario-based cyber resilience simulation that allows participants to step into the shoes of a hacker and launch their own attacks using cutting-edge AI tools. Participants must then defend and recover from an incident under pressure to test their resilience against these AI-powered cyberattacks.
“Commvault Minutes to Recovery” is a hands-on, live simulation that allows security and IT teams to test their readiness against Frontier AI threats in real-world conditions. In the first of three chapters, participants take on the role of an attacker and create an AI-powered attack using the common “Frontier AI” tools used by adversaries today.
This will give a realistic view of how AI-accelerated attacks behave, how fast they move, how personalized the phishing is, and how quickly backup infrastructure is targeted.
Assistants then switch roles and must defend against the AI-powered attack by making real-time detection decisions under pressure, with incomplete information and competing priorities. Finally, they take on the role of the recovery expert, who will have to restore systems and data to a clean and verified state without the threat reappearing.
Recovery plans and coordination between departments
By going through these three roles, attendees will understand firsthand what each phase requires and where cross-team coordination fails under real pressure. This experience will help teams uncover critical technical and operational weaknesses in recovery plans, strengthen coordination across departments, and gain confidence in their ability to respond effectively when an incident occurs.
Available worldwide as an in-person event and delivered in six languages, Minutes to Recovery is completed in a single two-hour session. The resulting benchmark, Mean Time to Clean Recovery (MTCR), provides a practical measure of recovery readiness based on performance under pressure, rather than assumptions in a planning document.
New Cyber Resilience Simulation Allows Participants to Create and Experience a Realistic AI-Powered Cyber Attack
«The question organizations must answer is no longer: “Do we have a recovery plan?” Instead, they should ask themselves, ‘Can we prove it will work under pressure?’” says Anna Griffin, chief marketing officer at Commvault. “As AI reduces the time between attack and impact, resilience becomes a measurable business capability. “Minutes to Recovery helps organizations go beyond assumptions and demonstrate their ability to recover completely, quickly and with confidence.”
Engagement Opportunity for Commvault Partners
“Minutes to Recovery” will also be available through Commvault’s global partner network, enabling partners to host and engage customers in strategic resilience discussions through a hands-on, results-oriented experience.
For partners, the event offers a turnkey, highly engaged customer experience, backed by Commvault infrastructure and the accredited expertise of the Commvault Global Speaker Bureau.
“Most organizations believe they are prepared for a cyberattack until they are forced to respond to one in real time,” said Allen Downs, vice president of Security and Resilience at Kyndryl. “As cyberattacks become faster, more sophisticated and increasingly unpredictable, recovery strategies must evolve to adapt to this new reality. Leveraging this experience, Kyndryl can help clients strengthen their preparedness, validate their resilience, and improve their ability to recover from disruptions. In short, resilience is not defined by the plans that organizations develop, but by the scenarios that they have rigorously tested.
