Cohesity announced multiple advancements in cyber resilience and data security at its Catalyst 1 Data Security Summit, extending its Five-Step Cyber Resilience Framework to companies and governments. The innovations include enhanced protection for cloud workloads across major hyperscale providers, a new identity resilience solution, on-premises isolated data vaults, and expanded AI-powered capabilities for its enterprise knowledge discovery assistant, Cohesity Gaia.
Cyberattacks, including ransomware, continue to pose significant operational, financial, and reputational risks to organizations. Cohesity addresses this challenge through its five-step framework designed to strengthen cyber resilience: protect all data, ensure data is always recoverable, detect and investigate threats, practice application resilience, and optimize data risk posture. Vasu Murthy, senior vice president and chief product officer at Cohesity, stated that the company’s focus is on helping organizations approach resilience comprehensively to withstand attacks, recover faster, and safeguard business continuity and reputation.
To protect data across growing cloud footprints, Cohesity plans to add 40 connectors by the end of 2025, covering compute, container, storage, and database services across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The company also introduced Cohesity Identity Resilience, powered by Semperis, to fortify Microsoft Active Directory, a common target in cyberattacks, by combining Cohesity Data Cloud’s immutable foundation with Semperis’ automated recovery and advanced identity protection tools. Additionally, NetBackup DirectIO will allow the Cohesity Data Cloud platform to serve as a high-performance immutable storage layer for NetBackup data sources, aiming for faster recovery and up to 53% in direct cost and storage efficiency savings.
For ensuring data recoverability, Cohesity is launching FortKnox Self-managed, an on-premises version of its cloud-based cyber vaulting solution, Cohesity FortKnox. This option provides a virtual air-gapped vault within customer data centers for organizations with data sovereignty requirements. The solution uses obfuscation technologies to prevent vault discovery, even if primary cluster admin credentials are compromised.
Cohesity is enhancing threat detection by boosting Cohesity DataProtect with the same ultra-fast, hash-based threat scanning technology pioneered by Cohesity NetBackup, enabling near-instant search results for indicators of compromise. Google Threat Intelligence will also be integrated into Cohesity Data Cloud’s threat scanning capability for Cohesity Enterprise edition customers at no additional cost.
Practicing application resilience is supported by Cohesity RecoveryAgent, a generally available cyber recovery orchestration tool. It automates testing, rehearsals, and recovery execution, featuring embedded malware scanning and agentic AI capabilities for organizing workflows and forecasting recovery timelines. Cohesity’s CERT (Cyber Event Response Team) offerings are expanding with new proactive consulting services, including ransomware resilience assessments and tabletop exercises, designed to help customers develop strategies for increased cyber resilience and minimized downtime.
Optimizing data risk posture involves integrating Cyera’s data classification and governance capabilities directly into the Cohesity Data Cloud platform. This integration assists customers in identifying sensitive and regulated data within backups, eliminating redundant or obsolete data, and enforcing compliance in near real-time to mitigate risks such as sensitive data restoration to unauthorized locations. Amit Raikar, vice president of Strategic Alliances at Cyera, noted that the integration simplifies data management and protection, ensuring compliant, secure, and recoverable sensitive information. Dante Orsini, chief revenue officer at 11:11 Systems, highlighted the partnership with Cohesity in delivering unified, AI-enhanced data management and cyber resilience solutions for enterprise clients.
Beyond cyber resilience, Cohesity Gaia enables customers to derive business value from their protected data through AI-driven knowledge discovery. Available for both cloud and on-prem environments, Cohesity Gaia features enhancements such as a new search interface, sensitive data redaction, multi-language support, and integrations with Slack and Google Agentspace, facilitating secure insights for global teams. The Catalyst 1 Data Security Summit, held on September 17 and 18, featured discussions from data security leaders from organizations including Capstone Research Corp., US Foods, The Weather Channel, Schwarz IT KG, Bethany Children’s Health Center, Blaine County School District, NVIDIA, Google Cloud’s Mandiant, and Palo Alto Networks Unit 42.
