Security Best Practices
Commvault, Friday, February 6th, 2026
Backup and recovery integrations depend on secure workload credentials. A single compromised credential can open access far beyond one system, and threat actors know it.
Three key controls for credential hygiene to help your organization reduce risk
The best static credential is the one you don't have. Where feasible, move from secret-based authentication to managed identities or other 'secretless' approaches, so credentials are issued, protected, and rotated by the platform rather than stored and handled manually. However, we realize this is not always possible for some legacy systems and configurations.