Case Study: Large International Bank achieves compliance and slashes AD recovery from days to hours with Quest RMAD DRE

Bank ensures compliance with fast AD disaster recovery

A major international bank with about 11,000 employees in the financial sector faced a critical challenge: regulatory requirements and cyber-resilience demands meant it had to prove fast disaster recovery for Active Directory (AD). An internal assessment found the bank’s traditional backup-and-recovery approach would take several days to restore AD—an unacceptable, high-risk outcome for such a regulated organization.

The bank deployed Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition (RMAD DRE) from Quest, which automates and streamlines Microsoft’s manual AD recovery procedures and supports multiple recovery methods. The result: AD recovery time dropped from days to hours, the IT team can run recoveries independently (no external backup team required), the solution passed penetration testing, and the bank now meets compliance requirements across its 10 forests and ~50 domain controllers.