Cohesity Unveils New Security Innovations and Partnerships to Help Organizations Strengthen Every Pillar of Cyber Resilience

(MENAFN- Alto ) Dubai, United Arab Emirates. – Sept. 18, 2025 – Cohesity, the leader in AI-powered data security, today announced multiple cyber resilience innovations at the company’s Catalyst 1 Data Security Summit. These include protection for compute, container, storage and database workloads across the three leading hyperscale clouds, and on-premises isolated data vaults for organizations with data sovereignty requirements. Cohesity also introduced a new identity resilience solution with enterprise identity security expert Semperis, expanded its integration with leading AI-native data security platform Cyera, and unveiled new AI-powered capabilities for Cohesity Gaia, the enterprise knowledge discovery assistant. Together, these enhancements help customers strengthen resilience and unlock greater value from their protected data.

Despite greater awareness of threats like ransomware, cyberattacks continue to cause significant operational, financial, and reputational damage. Even if an organization has solid disaster recovery processes in place, those same processes cannot be relied on to recover from cyberattacks. To address this challenge, Cohesity has defined five steps organizations can take to strengthen cyber resilience: protect all data, ensure data is always recoverable, detect and investigate threats, practice application resilience, and optimize data risk posture.

“Cyberattacks are now a permanent feature of the business landscape, and organisations can no longer rely on prevention alone,” said Johnny Karam, Managing Director and VP, International Emerging Region, Cohesity. “In the UAE and across the wider region, rapid cloud adoption, AI integration, and evolving data-sovereignty requirements demand a new level of visibility and recovery readiness. These latest innovations from Cohesity bring together advanced protection, faster recovery, and AI-powered intelligence so customers can not only withstand attacks but also turn their secured data into a source of competitive advantage. By helping enterprises protect every workload and recover with confidence, we are enabling them to meet local compliance needs, safeguard reputation, and unlock the full value of their data in an increasingly complex digital economy.”

Protecting All Data
Organizations continue to grow their cloud footprint as they accelerate their digital transformations. Cohesity helps customers protect a wide range of cloud workloads with one of the industry’s most extensive connector libraries. To keep pace with customer needs, the company plans to add 40 additional connectors by the end of 2025, including the most popular compute, container, storage, and database services across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Today, Cohesity also announced Cohesity Identity Resilience powered by Semperis to strengthen resilience for Microsoft Active Directory, which is among the most heavily targeted systems in cyberattacks and a top recovery priority. By combining Cohesity Data Cloud’s immutable foundation with Semperis’ automated forest recovery and advanced identity protection tools, customers will gain stronger defenses and rapid recovery for this critical service.

Cohesity customers will also soon benefit from another breakthrough innovation, NetBackup, DirectIO. NetBackup DirectIO allows the Cohesity Data Cloud platform to be used as a high-performance immutable storage layer for all NetBackup data sources to deliver even faster recovery and up to 53% in direct cost and storage efficiency savings.

Ensuring Data is Always Recoverable
The first to introduce cloud-based cyber vaulting with Cohesity FortKnox, the company is now launching a version for on-prem environments. The new FortKnox Self-managed option provides a complete solution enabling customers with data sovereignty requirements to implement an isolated, highly secure virtual air-gapped vault within their own data centers. Fort Knox Self-managed uses advanced obfuscation technologies to ensure the vault location cannot be discovered, even when primary cluster admin credentials are compromised.

Detecting and Investigating Threats
Cohesity NetBackup pioneered ultra-fast, hash-based threat scanning for backup data almost two years ago. Cohesity is now boosting the detection capabilities of Cohesity DataProtect with the same technology to deliver customers near-instant search results for indicators of compromise across their data. To help customers detect the latest threats seen in the wild, Cohesity will also incorporate Google Threat Intelligence into Cohesity Data Cloud’s threat scanning capability at no extra cost as part of its Cohesity Enterprise edition.

Practicing Application Resilience
Because confident recovery requires practice, Cohesity equips organizations with tools for automating and fine-tuning response and recovery. This includes solutions like Cohesity RecoveryAgent, which is now generally available. A cyber recovery orchestration tool, RecoveryAgent, automates testing, rehearsals, and recovery execution. With embedded malware scanning and agentic AI capabilities, RecoveryAgent makes it easy to organize recovery workflows and forecast recovery timelines with precision.

Cohesity is expanding its CERT (Cyber Event Response Team) offerings with new cyber resilience consulting services. These new expert-led proactive engagements, such as ransomware resilience assessments and tabletop exercises, assist customers in developing strategies and capabilities that can help increase cyber resilience, minimize downtime, and speed digital transformation.

Optimizing Data Risk Posture
As organizations strive to strengthen cyber resilience, many are turning to proactive measures like data security posture management to discover and reduce risks. Cohesity’s integration with Cyera will now seamlessly embed additional data classification and governance capabilities directly into the Cohesity Data Cloud platform. This empowers customers to identify sensitive and regulated data within backups, eliminate redundant or obsolete data, and enforce compliance requirements in near real-time to avoid risks like sensitive data restoration to unauthorized locations.

“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,” said Amit Raikar, vice president, Strategic Alliances, Cyera. “Our integration with Cohesity simplifies how organizations 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.”

“Many organizations struggle with building true cyber resilience," said Dante Orsini, chief revenue officer, 11:11 Systems. “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 optimization and all points in between.”

Beyond Cyber Resilience
Cohesity customers can also be ready to unlock business value from their protected data with Cohesity Gaia’s AI-driven knowledge discovery capabilities. Cohesity Gaia is available for both cloud and on-prem environments and features several new enhancements, including a new search interface, sensitive data redaction, multi-language support, and integrations with Slack and Google Agentspace. These capabilities allow global teams to securely gain insights from their protected data, fueling efficiency, innovation, and growth.

Learn more about the new Cohesity innovations during the Cohesity Catalyst 1 Data Security Summit, September 17 and 18. The event will also feature data security leaders from 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, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, and others sharing their proven strategies for protecting and securing data. Visit after the event for session replays and on-demand content.

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