Cohesity unveils AI-driven cyber resilience for cloud & on-prem

Cohesity has announced new security advancements and partnerships aimed at strengthening cyber resilience across cloud and on-premises environments.

Cyber resilience framework

The company has extended its Five-Step Cyber Resilience Framework to organisations in both the private and public sectors.

The framework focuses on protecting data, ensuring recoverability, detecting threats, practising application resilience, and optimising data risk posture. The updated offerings provide broader protection for compute, storage, container, and database workloads across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Gregory Statton, Chief Technology Officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at Cohesity, stated:

"In today's threat landscape, having the right technology and partnerships is vital to strengthening every pillar of cyber resilience. With innovations like FortKnox Self-managed for on-prem environments to meet data sovereignty requirements, identity resilience with Semperis, and deeper integration with Cyera, Cohesity is providing customers with the tools and confidence to take action. Combined with AI-powered insights from Cohesity Gaia, these capabilities support all five steps of cyber resilience - from data protection and recovery to threat detection, application resilience, and risk posture optimisation - helping organisations recover faster and unlock greater strategic value from their data."

Data protection expansion

Cohesity plans to add 40 additional workload connectors by the end of 2025, offering enhanced protection for cloud services.

The new Cohesity Identity Resilience solution, developed in partnership with Semperis, aims to strengthen defences for Microsoft Active Directory, described as a frequent target in cyberattacks.

The partnership combines Cohesity Data Cloud's immutable infrastructure with Semperis' automated forest recovery and identity protection tools. This integration is designed to deliver rapid recovery and robust protection for critical directory services.

Another upcoming feature, NetBackup DirectIO, will allow the Cohesity Data Cloud platform to function as a high-performance, immutable storage layer for all NetBackup data sources. Cohesity reports this could yield up to 53% in cost and storage efficiency savings.

Data recoverability and sovereignty

Cohesity's FortKnox solution, previously available in the cloud, is now being extended to on-premises deployments.

The self-managed version enables organisations with data sovereignty requirements to create isolated, secure virtual air-gapped vaults within their data centres. The system uses advanced obfuscation to keep the vault's location undiscoverable even if administrative credentials are compromised.

Threat detection enhancements

New detection capabilities are being integrated into Cohesity DataProtect, leveraging hash-based threat scanning for backups. Cohesity will integrate Google Threat Intelligence within its threat scanning capability at no additional charge for Enterprise edition customers. This update is intended to enable near-instant identification of threats and indicators of compromise.

Application resilience practices

Cohesity has rolled out RecoveryAgent, now generally available, which automates the process of testing, rehearsals, and recovery. RecoveryAgent includes embedded malware scanning and uses agentic AI to organise workflows and forecast recovery timelines.

The company is also expanding its CERT (Cyber Event Response Team) offerings, providing new consulting services such as ransomware resilience assessments and tabletop exercises.

Risk posture management

Cohesity's deepened integration with Cyera will bring additional data classification and governance tools into the Cohesity Data Cloud platform, allowing organisations to identify and manage sensitive or regulated data within backups. These features help remove obsolete data, enforce compliance and reduce risks associated with restoring sensitive data to unauthorised locations.

Amit Raikar, Vice President, Strategic Alliances at Cyera, commented,

"Data sprawl is being driven by increasing cloud and AI adoption. This increases security and compliance risks that call for enterprise-wide visibility of all sensitive data that is critical to delivering cyber resilience. Our integration with Cohesity simplifies how organisations manage and protect their data. Together, we're ensuring sensitive and regulated information remains compliant, secure, and recoverable to help enterprises eliminate the cyber resilience gap optimally."

Dante Orsini, Chief Revenue Officer, 11:11 Systems, added,

"Many organisations struggle with building true cyber resilience. Cohesity and 11:11 have built a robust, long-standing partnership focused on delivering unified, AI-enhanced data management and cyber resilience solutions for enterprise clients. Our joint customers are looking for a holistic set of technology solutions and services to close gaps, from protection to optimisation and all points in between."

Cohesity Gaia advancements

The most recent updates to Cohesity Gaia, the enterprise knowledge discovery assistant, include a new search interface, sensitive data redaction, support for multiple languages, and integrations with platforms such as Slack and Google Agentspace. These enhancements prepare customers to extract business value from their protected data, facilitating global collaboration and operational efficiency.