As AI accelerates both innovation and risk, cyber resilience strategy has become an urgent business imperative — how can organizations protect critical data, detect threats before they spread and recover fast enough to stay operational?

The answer lies in taking a more operational approach to resilience, according to Michelle Graff (pictured, right), senior vice president of global partners and channels at Commvault Systems Inc. In that environment, cyber readiness is becoming an always-on operational priority rather than a last-line recovery measure.

“There’s never probably been a more critical time for organizations to rethink their cyber resiliency,” Graff said. “With the rapid rise of data to power AI, but also the rapid rise of AI powered threats, it’s critical for organizations to rethink their resiliency and shift to more of what we’re calling a ResOps model — a continuous closed loop around resiliency ops.”

Graff and Gagan Gulati (left), senior vice president and general manager for data services at NetApp Inc., spoke with theCUBE’s Christophe Bertrand at the RSAC 2026 Conference, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the growing urgency of developing a cyber resilience strategy in the AI era. (* Disclosure below.)

A focus on developing a cyber resilience strategy

Through their partnership, NetApp and Commvault are combining primary-storage threat detection and recovery orchestration into a more integrated cyber resilience offering. The joint approach connects NetApp’s Autonomous Ransomware Protection with Commvault’s threat-aware backup and Synthetic Recovery capabilities to help customers identify threats sooner, accelerate recovery workflows and reduce the risk of reinfection, according to Gulati.

“With the advent of AI … these attackers, these malicious users — within hours — can actually completely ruin your infrastructure, can completely encrypt everything and run away before you even think about how to respond,” Gulati said. “That’s why this closed-loop architecture of detecting threats early, and then triggering the right set of workflows to recover quickly, almost immediately, is a game changer for the industry.”

The deeper value of the co-engineered integration lies in what happens at the Commvault control plane the moment NetApp detects a threat. Rather than waiting hours for a security team to manually assess damage, the joint architecture sends detection signals directly to Commvault, triggering backup and recovery workflows immediately, Gulati explained. That kind of automation not only speeds response times, but also helps organizations contain the impact of an attack and recover with greater confidence, Graff added.

“Imagine a world where a cyber threat comes in,” Graff said. “Now instead of having disparate technologies and siloed security and data teams, with Autonomous Ransomware [Protection] from NetApp and with Commvault’s clean recovery with Synthetic Recovery, when that threat comes in, we can minimize the blast radius and then recover not only just quickly, but cleanly — not reinfecting the files from the malicious code that’s been infected.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the RSAC 2026 Conference:

(* Disclosure: NetApp sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither NetApp nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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