Reduce data risk and increase cyber resilience with Cohesity and Cyera

Sensitive data is everywhere. It lives in gigantic datasets, in the cloud, and hidden in secondary environments that you may never think twice about. 

For security and IT leaders, blind spots around sensitive data have become one of the biggest barriers to improving cyber resilience. Here’s the hard truth: if your secondary datasets contain unprotected or non-compliant data—you're at risk. And it’s a risk that your board and regulators are closely monitoring.  

At Catalyst 1, our recent data security summit, we announced a major step forward in closing this crucial data security gap: an expanded integration between Cohesity Data Cloud and Cyera—register here to watch all the Catalyst 1 videos. As a recent Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Cyera is redefining how organizations gain visibility into sensitive data.  

In the first phase of our integration, Cohesity Data Cloud and Cyera customers could pinpoint gaps in protection policies and take steps to improve their security and risk posture for sensitive data. Today, we’re going even further—delivering compliance-driven protection and recovery, prioritization of mission-critical data, proactive risk detection, and cost optimization capabilities to help you improve your cyber resilience.

DSPM + Cohesity helps you optimize data risk posture

Our five-step cyber resilience model, seen below, provides actionable guidance for strengthening your resilience posture.

Figure 1: The 5 steps of cyber resilience.
 

Step five calls for organizations to optimize their data risk posture. In this phase, you’re becoming proactive in looking across your data estate to detect and mitigate risks. Without knowing where your sensitive (and riskiest) data lives, it can be impossible to make sure it’s appropriately protected. On top of that, during an incident, you need to be able to assess what data may have been impacted in a breach or what may have happened in a case of data exfiltration.  

When you address this topic head-on, you can confidently answer these tough questions: 

• What sensitive data do we have? 
• Where is it stored? 
• Who has access to it? 
• How is it being protected (if at all)? 
• How do we minimize impact or risk? 
• Does it make sense to have this data?

Figure 2: While primary data involved in day-to-day operations is monitored by DSPM tools, there are mountains of data in secondary data sets that introduce risk and potential compliance violations that also need to be addressed. 
 

Unlike traditional data classification tools, modern DSPM solutions like Cyera are turbocharged with AI to provide context-rich, real-time visibility across structured and unstructured data. But visibility is only half the battle. If you can’t secure and recover that data, it remains a liability. That’s where Cohesity comes in. Together, Cyera and Cohesity help organizations to: 

1. Protect and secure sensitive data. 
2. Prioritize business-critical data during recovery.
3. Work towards compliant, risk-free recovery from secured secondary data.
4. Accelerate incident response and minimize downtime.
5. Optimize costs by eliminating stale data.

New capabilities for cyber resilience

Here’s how the expanded integration between Cyera and Cohesity helps organizations become more secure, compliant, and recovery-ready:

Compliant and secure recovery: You can gain deep, contextual insight into sensitive data, whether PII, IP or other mission-critical assets, directly within Cohesity Data Cloud. Know exactly what you have, who accessed it, and when. Use this intelligence to automatically prioritize protection of data that keeps your business running, enabling faster, safer restoration after cyber events.  

Figure 3: See rich insights and context for across every dataset. Understand exactly where sensitive data lives in Cohesity’s Data Cloud and prioritize mission- critical data to protect and recover.
 

Risk identification: Compliance teams have to keep up with a growing set of regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and more. Now you can easily apply pre-defined compliance policies to data in Cohesity Data Cloud. These rapidly identify sensitive or regulated data that may not be protected according to policy or regulatory requirements. Use this feature to lower your security risks and help support restoreations that are is both secure and compliant.

Figure 4: Select from over a dozen pre-defined data residency policies that can detect for violations so your team can remediate quickly.
 

Accelerated incident response: When a breach happens, time and clarity are critical. Cyera and Cohesity now exchange threat and data intelligence, giving security and IT teams a more accurate view of potential risks—and the ability to quickly pinpoint, validate, and restore clean, compliant backups. This, in turn, reduces downtime (and the chaos!) during incident response. When you understand the blast radius of an attack quickly, you can submit legal disclosure to satisfy regulations even faster.

Figure 5: Compliance violations and security risks are identified in each dataset so your IT and security teams can quickly figure out what sensitive data is impacted.
 

Cost optimization for superior TCO: Automatically identify and remove redundant, obsolete, or trivial (ROT) data from primary datasets while ensuring sensitive, high-value data remains protected in Cohesity Data Cloud. Reduce costs with our industry-leading compression and deduplication capabilities. 

How it works

Cyera continuously discovers, classifies, and contextualizes sensitive data, pinpointing unprotected or “shadow” data and categorizing it by residency, duplication and sensitivity. This intelligence flows directly into Cohesity Data Cloud, where it's used to automatically tag high-risk data across secondary datasets. Watch the demo to see the integration in action:

Visibility, security, and recovery—unified

Cyber resilience is a journey. The job is never done because your environment—and your adversaries—are always changing. In today’s threat landscape, organizations need a constant feedback, loop between visibility, protection, response, and recovery.

Cohesity and Cyera deliver a unified, security-driven approach to closing blind spots, strengthening compliance, and accelerating recovery so you can face cyber incidents with confidence. That’s how you work towards Resilience Everywhere.

More resources: 

• Get the integration
• Cohesity and Cyera Solution Brief
• Cyera Partner Page

Disclaimer

Any unreleased services or features referenced in this blog are not currently available and may not be made generally available on time or at all, as may be determined in our sole discretion. Any such referenced services or features do not represent promises to deliver, commitments, or obligations of Cohesity and may not be incorporated into any contract. Customers should make their purchase decisions based upon services and features that are currently generally available.