As artificial intelligence accelerates the speed and sophistication of cyberattacks, Commvault has unveiled a new cyber resilience simulation designed to help organisations experience an AI-driven attack before facing one in the real world.
Called Minutes to Recovery™, the interactive exercise places IT and security professionals on both sides of a cyber incident. Participants first assume the role of an attacker, using frontier AI tools similar to those now employed by cybercriminals to develop realistic phishing campaigns and compromise environments. They then switch roles to defend against the attack before finally leading the recovery process, restoring systems while ensuring malicious code is not reintroduced.
The launch comes as the time between vulnerability disclosure and active exploitation continues to shrink. According to Commvault, that window has fallen to just 29 minutes in 2025, highlighting the need for organisations to move beyond static recovery plans and validate their ability to respond under pressure.
Rather than focusing solely on prevention, the simulation is designed to test the effectiveness of detection, decision-making and recovery processes in realistic scenarios. Participants are required to make rapid operational decisions with incomplete information while balancing competing priorities, reflecting the conditions many organisations face during an active cyber incident.
The two-hour exercise concludes with a Mean Time to Clean Recovery (MTCR) benchmark, providing organisations with a measurable assessment of how quickly they can recover systems and data following an AI-enabled attack.
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Anna Griffin, Chief Market Officer at Commvault, said organisations need to rethink how they evaluate cyber resilience.
“The question organisations need to answer is no longer, ‘Do we have a recovery plan?’ Instead, they should be asking, ‘Can we prove it will work under pressure?’ As AI compresses the time between compromise and impact, resilience becomes a measurable business capability.”
The simulation will be delivered globally in six languages and will also be available through Commvault’s partner network, enabling partners to facilitate resilience workshops with customers.
Allen Downs, Vice President of Security and Resiliency at Kyndryl, said testing recovery capabilities in realistic scenarios has become increasingly important as AI changes the threat landscape.
“Resilience is not defined by the plans organisations create, but by the scenarios they have rigorously tested,” he said.
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