When your environment goes dark, recovery is what matters most. Whether it's ransomware, a configuration failure, or an infrastructure outage, your ability to bounce back safely and quickly can be the difference between a short disruption and a long-term crisis.
Back in April, we announced our intention to deliver a new AI-powered cyber orchestration solution for Cohesity NetBackup and DataProtect customers. Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of RecoveryAgent, a powerful new capability from Cohesity designed to make recovery smarter, safer, and simpler for organizations dealing with complex IT environments and increasingly aggressive threats.
If you’ve ever struggled with disjointed recovery tools, manual steps, or post-incident cleanup, this is for you.
Why we built RecoveryAgent
Over the past few years, we’ve seen a major shift in how organizations approach data protection. It’s not just about bouncing back from problems, it’s about designing and operating systems that expect the unexpected and continue to deliver value under pressure. Put another way, it’s about application resilience which ensures your applications continue to operate correctly in the face of natural disasters or cyberattacks.
Unfortunately, many recovery plans fall apart in practice. They live in static documents. They require too many manual steps. They assume clean data exists. And they often involve switching between tools that don’t play well together. So, we asked: what if recovery could be automated, intelligent, and repeatable?
RecoveryAgent is our answer.
What is RecoveryAgent?
RecoveryAgent is a blueprint-driven recovery orchestration engine. It helps IT and security teams prepare for and respond to disasters and cyber incidents with confidence. Instead of stitching together manual tasks and hoping for the best, RecoveryAgent lets you design workflows that do the heavy lifting for you.
Whether you’re dealing with ransomware or planning a controlled failover, you can automate your recovery process, validate your environment, and ensure the data you restore is clean and safe.
We’ve seen too many organizations struggle during high-pressure incidents because the plan wasn’t rehearsed or the tools weren’t integrated. RecoveryAgent is built to fix that.
Blueprints: The heart of RecoveryAgent
At the core of RecoveryAgent is a blueprint system. Think of a blueprint as a living, customizable recovery plan that knows exactly what to do when you need it. You define your assets, recovery configurations, threat scan policies, and timing. Then you can test, schedule, or trigger execution when needed.
Blueprints are reusable, editable, and dynamic. They let your team rehearse recovery ahead of time and execute it quickly during an actual event. This means fewer surprises, faster execution, and less reliance on tribal knowledge when pressure is high.
Built-in intelligence
Recovery is not just about restoring data. It’s about proving recoverability and ensuring your applications continue to serve your customers no matter what.
RecoveryAgent includes threat-aware recovery, which means you can scan data before restoring it to ensure it’s clean. You can also use AI-driven anomaly detection to identify suspicious patterns in backup snapshots, helping you avoid reinfection or partial restores.
We’ve also given you the ability to add pre-check validations to identify configuration drift before recovery begins. That means fewer surprises and fewer failures when time is critical.
Control without complexity
RecoveryAgent offers a balance of control and automation. You can schedule blueprints to run during off-hours, insert manual pauses for critical reviews, or script custom actions as part of the workflow.
Recovery isn't always one-size-fits-all. You may need to restore to different locations, use alternate configs, or test in isolation. RecoveryAgent gives you the flexibility to do that, all through a clean and intuitive UI.
Real-world scenarios it solves
We designed RecoveryAgent around the real challenges we kept hearing from practitioners in the field. Here are a few examples:
- Ransomware recovery: You’ve identified the attack, contained it, and now need to recover critical services. RecoveryAgent helps you orchestrate this process while scanning for threats and verifying the integrity of your data before bringing systems back online.
- Disaster recovery: When critical services go down, you need to fail over and ensure the application restarts in the correct order. With blueprints, you already have the plan in place—it’s just a matter of execution.
- Compliance and audit readiness: Regulators are requiring proof of recoverability. RecoveryAgent lets you rehearse your recovery flows and generate evidence of success without disrupting production.
- Incident preparedness: You want to test your team’s ability to respond to a cyber event. Use RecoveryAgent to simulate the real thing and refine your blueprint before the next attack.
What sets RecoveryAgent apart
What makes RecoveryAgent different from other tools? For starters, most organizations are trying to orchestrate recovery with tools that were never designed for it, relying on spreadsheets, scripts, and hope.
RecoveryAgent combines orchestration, validation, automation, and threat awareness into a single platform. It’s not a bolt-on. It’s built for recovery.
Other solutions may give you backup. RecoveryAgent gives you recovery you can trust.
RecoveryAgent is available now
RecoveryAgent is generally available today to Cohesity customers. If you already use Cohesity for backup or cyber vaulting, adding RecoveryAgent offers a powerful way to operationalize recovery without adding complexity.
If you're evaluating how to strengthen your ransomware response or modernize disaster recovery, RecoveryAgent provides your team with a head start, offering tested, flexible workflows ready to go when you need them.
Learn more
RecoveryAgent is built for the real world for the people who are on-call when things go wrong, and for the leaders who need to know their organization can bounce back fast.
To see RecoveryAgent in action or learn how it integrates with your existing environment, visit the product page for demos, documentation, and resources to get started.
