Protect and secure your data from cyber attacks
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The 5 Steps to Cyber Resilience
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With Cohesity’s AI-powered data security, customers can rapidly respond to and recover from ransomware and disasters, improve cyber resilience, and gain insights from their data using generative AI.
With today’s sophisticated cybercriminals successfully evading EDR and XDR to encrypt, exfiltrate, ransom, or simply wipe your data, Zero Trust is a necessary requirement—but still not enough. You need AI/ML-enabled defense capabilities that minimize your attack surface and disrupt the kill chain.
When your business is down, every second counts. Recovering VMs, databases, and file shares securely, rapidly, at scale, and with confidence is why customers hire Cohesity.
Protect, secure, and gain insights into your enterprise data—no matter where it lives—with our platform, Cohesity Data Cloud.
A leader in all the top analyst reports. Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Omdia, GigaOm, and KuppingerCole recognized Cohesity as an industry-leading vendor in security posture, ransomware protection, unstructured data management, cloud backup, scale-out file storage, and data protection.
Cohesity is a 6X and Veritas is 19X Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms
GigaOm Ranks Cohesity the top Leader in GigaOm Radar for Hybrid Cloud Data Protection
Cohesity is the ONLY vendor selected Customers’ Choice 7X running for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions.
Cohesity provides vast workload coverage for on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments—ensuring consistency in efficiency and immutability. Public cloud native and private cloud object store workloads supported by Cohesity are twice that of Rubrik.
Rubrik Security cloud has inconsistencies in its already limited workload coverage for cloud- native workloads, with some relying only on export and replication, thus creating challenges for consistent protection.
Cohesity offers solution options with elastic scalability, without compromising the efficiency features of the core technology, like deduplication. Cohesity's elastic solution has workload coverage parity with our non-elastic solution. Compared to Rubrik's non-elastic solution, Cohesity's elastic solution can provide a 25% to 600% lower static compute footprint.
Rubrik brings solution options with elastic deployment in the cloud, but only for a subset of workloads. Other workloads require protection by a non-elastic solution. Some cloud-native workloads, such as AWS S3 and Azure Files, do not offer global deduplication. This increases cloud costs just for protection alone.
Cohesity lets Database Administrators retain control of the protection of their databases, while ensuring adherence to strict SLAs and backup security with immutability. Native tooling for DBAs avoids friction between global control and the convenience DBAs desire. Cohesity uniquely offers backing up on S3 protocol natively to increase protection speeds without siloed storage.
The lack of a native tooling for DBAs creates hurdles to global protection for databases. The lack of a native S3 storage option takes away convenience for DBAs when choosing between S3 and block storage.
Typical for most workloads due to superior sliding-window dedupe, Zstandard compression.1
Typically, this is due to fixed block sizes, limited deduplication across source types, and less compression. No dedupe is supported for flash media increasing space requirement for landing backups prior to deduplication.2
Cohesity brings solution options that don’t add restrictions or noticeable overhead, helping organizations achieve assured, recoverable backups with immutability. Many third-party archive object storage targets are available in multiple public and private clouds offering object- level locking.
For immutability, Rubrik’s advice is to align locking periods with backup frequencies, which forces the creation of multiple sets of policies, or SLA domains. This forces customers to adopt complexity to achieve efficiency for ensuring backup recoverability. While multiple archive targets based on object storage are supported, very few support locking, with current blob (object equivalent) locking supported only for Azure. This creates indirect lock-in.
Cohesity brings a solution option with uninterrupted protection, designed to support large enterprises that cannot afford interruptions, even for critical security updates. Thus, Cohesity ensures continued SLA compliance, reducing data loss risk.
Rubrik uninterrupted protection has different types of exceptions where the protection restarts instead of continuing uninterrupted for some workloads during upgrades, or simply upgrades get blocked for some enterprise workloads, during the upgrade process. This increases the risk of SLA non-compliance and data loss risk.
Cohesity-managed key option takes away risk of lost or tampered key, thus reducing attack surface and shared burden. Sheltered Harbor endorsed solution option for Banks and financial institutions helps increase customer confidence.
Customers are still responsible for managing multiple risks themselves, having to guard a larger attack surface. No solution option with Sheltered Harbor endorsement is available.
Cohesity solution options provide increased threat awareness, covering hypervisors, NAS, S3, cloud VMs, and Kubernetes workloads for threat scans.
Rubrik, despite offering multiple methods for threat detection, has limited coverage when it comes to multicloud and Kubernetes workloads.
Cohesity features a secure way to store first-response tools like contact lists, insurance details, and forensics tools with granular data locks.
Without a granular data lock, Rubrik lacks easy yet secure access methods for contact lists, insurance details, and forensics tools. This requires restores of larger data sets to find the tools for the first response.
Immediate and scalable restore of VMs and databases for faster forensics, sandboxing, and recovery with a superior design to access the latest and previous recovery points with unmatched speeds.
Chain-based metadata processing requires background “stitching together” of snapshots when restoring at scale, which slows down sandbox population for forensics. Unless a thorough investigation is done, jumping to the last non-infection indicated recovery images only leads to possible future reinfection.
Resuming NAS file share access immediately without restore, enables staging restores of infrastructure with clean images for rebuilding your environment post-attack.
Without the instant NAS access feature, figuring out a “place to land” rebuild images and then restoring those adds to downtime.
Recovery is never interrupted by an unexpected reboot or hardware failure.
VM interruption or data loss due to node loss or unplanned reboot can add to recovery times.
Rapidly restore the latest and previous VMs, databases, and NAS shares for dev/test or analytics.
Less scalable live mounting and restores.
Enables multiple use cases with file and object services beyond the backup target use case, with security features like file-level data lock and efficiency features like deduplication. Example use cases include archiving and legal holds for data, a medical image archive, and a multi-protocol target for video surveillance, as well as Splunk SmartStore.
Single-purpose, non-platform architecture requires additional silos for use cases beyond backup, recovery, and security. APIs alone do not make any solution a platform.
Pluggable integrations with solutions like Cisco XDR enable forensics with automated snapshots for various stages of the attack chain, and not just confirmed attacks, without added costs. This enables forensics for security and response teams to “feel and touch” the point-in-time for objects at various stages of an attack.
Integration is limited to metadata exchange and manual on-demand snapshot triggering after the fact. Previous snapshot times are not synced with the attack chain event, creating “a loss of time” effect during forensics, which prolongs the investigation phase, and, in turn, the downtime.
1Space saving estimate based on a typical mix of VMs, databases, and file shares as observed in head-to-head sizing and as relayed to Cohesity by prospects. 2When Cohesity needs 25% less space, if Rubrik needs 100 TB then Cohesity needs 75 TB; compared to the 75 TB that Cohesity needs, Rubrik needs 25 more TB, which is 33% more than Cohesity needs; if Rubrik has not quoted 33% more license than Cohesity, then Rubrik is likely not quoting enough license to provide sufficient in-cluster retention to recover rapidly from sophisticated attackers.
Software Capabilities
Enterprise Data Protection
Instant Mass Restore
Multi-Protocol Backup Target
Instant NAS volume access
AI Operational Assistance
Digital Jump Bag TM
Ransomware Anomaly Detection
Cohesity Event Response Team (CERT) Service
Threat Containment
Threat Hunting and Monitoring
Sensitive Data Classification & Monitoring
Cyber Recovery Orchestration
Sensitive Data Classification
Cyber Vaulting
Cohesity Core
Rubrik Foundation
Limited
Cohesity Enterprise
(200 TB for yr. 1)
(1 GB Index + 2000 queries for yr. 1)
Rubrik Business
Rubrik Enterprise
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