Bengaluru, Mar 6: Commvault, a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, today announced a strategic integration with CloudSEK, a global provider of predictive threat intelligence and AI-driven external risk monitoring. The collaboration aims to help enterprises proactively defend against identity-based cyberattacks fueled by stolen and exposed credentials circulating on the dark web.
As identity increasingly becomes a primary attack surface for cybercriminals, industry estimates suggest that nearly 80% of data breaches involve compromised credentials. With more than 24 billion stolen credentials currently circulating across dark web marketplaces, stealer logs, and underground forums, the window between credential exposure and exploitation has dramatically shrunk—from months to just hours—driven by AI-powered attack automation and advanced adversarial tactics.
Through this integration, CloudSEK’s real-time Dark Web Credential Intelligence will be embedded into Commvault’s Active Directory Vulnerability Assessments and Active Directory Advanced Audit and Anomaly Detection solutions. By correlating external credential exposure signals with internal identity telemetry, organizations can identify compromised accounts earlier and take immediate corrective actions such as disabling, locking, or resetting exposed credentials. The system also enables organizations to roll back malicious changes to Active Directory before attackers can escalate privileges, deploy ransomware, or exfiltrate sensitive data.
The integrated solution also automatically scores and prioritizes vulnerabilities across internal systems, public sources, and dark web intelligence, providing clear remediation guidance. This enables security teams to focus on the most critical threats while eliminating guesswork in identifying and addressing risks.
“By integrating CloudSEK’s external exposure threat intelligence with Commvault’s Active Directory protection capabilities, we’re expanding customers’ ability to uncover hidden identity risks earlier and neutralize identity-based threats before they escalate—critical as attacks become more AI-driven and agentic,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault.
“In today’s AI-driven threat landscape, partnerships are critical to closing the gap between external intelligence and internal action,” said Nivya Ravi, AVP – Partnerships at CloudSEK. “By embedding CloudSEK’s predictive threat intelligence into enterprise security workflows, we enable organizations to act on exposed credentials and identity risks before attackers can operationalize them. This is about shifting from reactive detection to proactive disruption.”
The partnership represents a significant step toward strengthening enterprise cybersecurity by combining real-time external threat intelligence with internal identity protection, helping organizations stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated and automated cyber threats.