Cohesity expands Google Cloud partnership for cyber resilience

Cohesity has announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud aimed at improving cyber resilience and data insight capabilities for organisations.

The partnership will introduce multiple new capabilities designed to help organisations better prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber threats, as well as harness more value from their business data. According to industry data cited by Cohesity, enterprises incur an average cost of USD $540,000 per hour in downtime, highlighting a significant need for comprehensive cyber resilience solutions.

Through this enhanced collaboration, organisations will be able to leverage advanced artificial intelligence-driven tools and integrated threat intelligence to accelerate the detection and recovery from cyber incidents. New developments will focus on reducing business risk and operational disruptions that often accompany such events.

Paul Henaghan, Managing Director of Cohesity Australia and New Zealand, stated: "Australian businesses are facing mounting pressure to strengthen their cyber resilience strategies in an increasingly complex threat landscape. Through our expanded partnership with Google Cloud, organisations can now harness advanced AI-driven capabilities and integrated threat intelligence to detect and recover from cyber-attacks faster than ever. This collaboration delivers the security and speed needed to protect critical data while enabling organisations to gain greater data insights."

Among the upcoming features, Cohesity is launching the integration of Google Threat Intelligence within the Cohesity Data Cloud. This integration aims to provide customers with faster detection of threats within their backup data, using intelligence from a network of over 450 threat actors and insights based on more than 1,100 incident investigations annually. The goal is to enhance threat detection and incident response, boost containment, and minimise the impact of potential breaches.

The expanded partnership will also see increased cooperation between Cohesity's Cyber Events Response Team (CERT) and Google's Mandiant Incident Response teams. By combining resources, the two organisations aim to offer comprehensive incident response services, facilitating the containment, investigation, and mitigation of cyber attacks from both primary and backup infrastructures and helping to minimise business downtime.

Another feature being introduced is the establishment of a Cloud Isolated Recovery Environment (CIRE) in Google Cloud, collaboratively set up and validated by Cohesity customers and Mandiant. This measure is intended to allow rapid and trusted restoration of data and business operations following a cyber incident, aiming to help organisations maintain customer trust and reduce the broader impact of such events.

There will also be integration between Cohesity Data Cloud and Google's Security Operations, consolidating Cohesity's data protection features with Google's security management capabilities to promote improved data resilience and an enhanced security posture for joint customers.

As organisations continue to amass large volumes of data, the need to efficiently manage, analyse, and extract value from this data grows more pronounced. Cohesity is addressing this through the integration of its Data Cloud platform with Google Agentspace, introducing Cohesity Gaia as an artificial intelligence agent. This functionality will allow enterprises to securely search and analyse data across multiple hosting environments, utilising Google Cloud's Gemini models for advanced insights. The integration is designed to enhance compliance, data security, and the discoverability of trusted data assets.

Additionally, Cohesity Gaia will incorporate Google Gemini models to further its AI-powered enterprise search assistant, enabling more advanced data analysis, discovery, and management capabilities for users.

Stephen Orban, Vice President of Migrations, ISVs, & Marketplace at Google Cloud, commented: "In today's rapidly evolving threat landscape, organisations need comprehensive solutions that not only protect their data, but also help them derive value from it. Our collaboration with Cohesity will enable customers to strengthen their cyber resilience posture while accelerating their digital transformation journeys."

Vikram Kanodia, Vice President of Technology and Cloud Alliances at Cohesity, also addressed the significance of the agreement: "Cyber threats like ransomware continue to plague global organisations, putting their businesses at risk and limiting their ability to focus on new, value-driving activities and services. Cohesity is committed to offering the most comprehensive solution to keep our customers' businesses resilient, protect their critical data, help them quickly recover from incidents, while enabling them to find new insights into their data. Working closely with Google Cloud, we're strengthening that commitment, giving our joint customers the tools to not only protect their business data but transform it into a strategic asset."

Integrations with Google Cloud for cyber resilience and data insights are projected to be available by the summer of 2025, while the incident response partnership with Mandiant and integration with Google Security Operations are already available to customers.