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Commvault Expands AgentRecover to Restore AI Agents and Affected Systems
Commvault is expanding AgentRecover to help IT teams trace unwanted AI agent activity and recover both the agents and the enterprise systems they affect.
The company announced the capabilities Nov. 10 at SHIFT 2026, targeting agents on Microsoft Foundry and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The expansion combines discovery of agents and their dependencies with activity auditing and recovery of supported resources.
"Business logic is moving out of applications and into agents, and agents don't behave deterministically," said Pranay Ahlawat, Commvault's chief technology and AI officer, in the announcement.
The planned capabilities map agents' connections to data, applications, identities, configurations and infrastructure. Customers can also use identity recovery and change auditing to investigate the identities through which an agent acted.
Recovery Scope Depends on the Incident
In an accompanying technical post, Commvault describes a recovery process that uses agent activity and resource information to determine which components need attention. Depending on the incident and workload capabilities, that could mean restoring individual components or a broader AI system to a trusted point.
The post explicitly cautions that this does not imply selectively reversing only the agent's changes. It also distinguishes identifying protection gaps from closing them: visibility into an unprotected resource does not automatically configure protection.
Protecting an agent's configuration and protecting its underlying workloads serve related purposes. Commvault says its broader recovery capabilities cover supported AI data systems, applications and infrastructure. Cloud Application Recovery, purchased separately, may support applicable recovery workflows.
The post also separates AgentRecover from Data Activate, which makes protected data available for analytics and AI, and Agent Studio, which supports agents for resilience workflows. Those offerings are outside the core AgentRecover solution.
Security Controls and Recovery
A separate Zscaler partnership announcement addresses AI discovery, runtime governance, and agent detection and recovery. The proposed collaboration pairs Zscaler's visibility and policy enforcement with Commvault's recovery capabilities. The release identifies collaboration opportunities but gives no joint-product delivery date.
AgentRecover capabilities for Microsoft Foundry are targeted for early access in November, with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore following in December. Commvault plans further discussion at SHIFT Virtual on Nov. 18.
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