Resilience Over Panic: Four Steps for the Age of Frontier AI
Commvault, Monday, July 13th, 2026
Commvault proposes mean time to clean recovery as the key resilience metric as frontier AI compresses attacker timelines.
Commvault argues that frontier AI models doubling in capability every few months will compress the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, with advanced offensive capabilities reaching adversaries within six to nine months.
The post urges organizations to stop measuring recovery speed alone and adopt mean time to clean recovery, or MTCR, which requires verifying that restored systems are malware-free before returning to production.
Its four-step framework covers defining a minimum viable company, isolating crown jewel workloads in air-gapped environments, validating recovered data for threats, and running live recovery drills instead of tabletop exercises.