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Strengthen your cyber resilience
Respond faster and recover securely from destructive cyberattacks with the Cohesity 5 Steps of Cyber Resilience© framework.
Overview
AI-powered data security and cyber resilience.
Cyberattacks continue to be the #1 threat to businesses. These disruptive attacks result in lost revenue, excessive costs, fines, and reputational damage.
It’s time for a new approach.
Cohesity helps organizations like yours evolve their strategy, with the Cohesity 5 Steps of Cyber Resilience©. This proven framework guides your organization from preparation through recovery – helping you adopt modern cyber resilience practices and technology. The result: reduced risk, and a stronger security posture.
The cyber resilience gap is wider than most organizations realize
The numbers reveal the gap between confidence and reality.
73%
of organizations experienced a material cyberattack in the past 12 months, up from 54% in 2025*
37%
Say their cyber resilience strategy is adequate for today’s threats, down from 47% in 2025*
76%
Had actual recovery time exceed their RTO; on average, recovery took almost twice as long as planned*
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Cohesity 5 Steps of Cyber Resilience©
Cyber resilience can be challenging. Here’s how Cohesity breaks down 5 steps to ensure your organization can bounce back quickly and confidently from cyberattacks.
Protect data, identity, apps & agents
Data sprawl increases your risk from a cyberattack. Unprotected workloads, data silos, and gaps in identity protection widen your attack surface—and sensitive data hiding across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem environments creates blind spots that leave you exposed.
You know where most of your data lives. Protect it. But sensitive data hides where you'd never think to look. Use Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) to discover and classify it, then protect it before attackers find it first.
Key actions:
- Deploy a modern data platform that handles 1000+ sources effortlessly: VMs, SaaS, databases, NAS, cloud workloads, and AI agent infrastructure.
- Automate backup and recovery of your identity environment, including Active Directory, with RTO targets that match your most critical systems.
- Ensure the platform simplifies day-to-day management of your entire data estate, unified by a single control plane and set of APIs.
- Use DSPM to discover and classify sensitive data across your environment and ensure it’s protected.
Ensure recoverability in all scenarios
Cyber attackers aim to encrypt or destroy your backups. Once your last line of defense is compromised, you're cornered, forced to pay the ransom. Harden your platform with advanced security features– and you’ve taken big strides to improve your security posture. Add a cyber vault for additional protection.
Key actions:
- Lock down your platform with multi-factor authentication, role-based permissions, and multi-person approval for sensitive operations.
- Deploy a cyber vault to protect your “crown jewels.” This logically air-gapped copy of data delivers ironclad isolation and an extra layer of resilience.
- Retain a long history of recovery points (60+ days) for rapid search and restore.
Remediate cyber & AI threats
Many cyberattacks are designed to be stealthy. Scanning production environments alone isn't enough. Extend threat detection into your backup data, where attackers assume you won't look. Regularly scan for malware to prevent attacks and limit the damage.
Key actions:
- Configure alerts on abnormal changes in your backups so you can spot potentially destructive activity early. Proactively scan backup data for known threats.
- Go deeper when an incident is underway. Hunt with custom YARA rules and analyze suspicious files safely in a secure sandbox.
- Get your InfoSec and IT teams aligned on the same intelligence with integrations between your backup platform and your most important security tools.
- Get incident response support every step of the way and engage Cohesity CERT (Cyber Event Response Team) early to mitigate the impact of incidents.
Practice application recovery
Congratulations. With Steps 1-3 done, your platform is stood up, hardened, and vaulted. You've regularly scanning for threats and hunting anomalies. Now define your Minimum Viable Company and build your digital jump bagTM. These two concepts help ensure faster incident response.
Practice your cyber resilience plan like a pro. Don't wing it during an actual attack: use automation to rehearse cyber response and recovery for infrastructure, data, and applications.
Key actions:
- Define and build your digital jump bagTM — the minimum set of trusted tools, credentials, and configurations required to initiate response and rebuild systems when core systems may be unavailable or untrusted.
- Define your MVC: identify the foundational workloads — identity (Active Directory/Entra ID/Okta), infrastructure, data, and critical applications — and the order they must come back online.
- Stand up an isolated recovery environment or clean room that provides a trusted environment to investigate and validate incidents, speeding recovery while minimizing the risk of secondary attacks.
- Automate and rehearse recovery workflows in the clean room so teams execute validated paths, not improvised ones, when pressure is highest.
Optimize data and AI risk posture
Your data estate continues to expand, increasing your attack surface across on-prem, SaaS, cloud, and edge environments. It’s increasingly difficult to keep track of it all, and you’re never quite sure if your most sensitive data is protected properly. Attackers armed with AI models are capable of discovering and weaponizing vulnerabilities at machine speed, raising the stakes for defenders.
The solution: Move faster and smarter with AI built to surface and act on your risk posture, with governance, control, and trust. Be proactive with DSPM and map the right protection policies to data across your estate. If a breach does happen, you can use data classification to quickly identify your risks.
Key actions:
- Continuously discover and classify sensitive data, evaluate its protection status, and automate protection of newly discovered sensitive data that isn’t already protected. The whole class of tools with DSPM makes this possible.
- Align protection policies with data sensitivity: Understand what may be in your backup estate and make sure it’s protected in the right way.
- Accelerate breach response: Assess what may have been impacted in a breach or what may have happened in a case of data exfiltration.
Product portfolio
Cohesity Data Cloud: What’s included
ANNOUNCEMENT
Cyber resilience that runs itself with you in the loop
Destructive cyberattacks move at machine speed. Autonomous Cyber Resilience shifts protection and recovery from manual coordination to automated execution.
Cohesity Data Cloud learns your applications, data, and dependencies to establish the critical services that make up your MVC.
Here’s how it works. State your resilience objectives in plain language. The platform will recommend and apply the right protection policies and cyber recovery strategies with your approval. Cohesity Data Cloud keeps watch and will recommend improvements as your data estate evolves.
Cohesity CERT (Cyber Event Response Team)
Prepare before an attack hits. Recover fast. CERT is with you throughout.
- Reduce your risk from ransomware, data theft, and prolonged downtime: Our consulting services benchmark your defenses, run tabletop exercises, and deliver a clear action plan, so you know exactly where you're exposed before attackers do.
- Minimize downtime and data loss: Expert incident response with robust recovery tools dramatically reduces the risk of data loss so your business can recover faster.
- Faster response with your IR partner: CERT works side-by-side with the world's leading IR firms, so investigations move faster and you recover sooner.
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