Evaluating identity resilience solutions?

See how competitors measure up against Cohesity Identity Resilience.

Identity is involved in 95% of security incidents today. Yet, most organizations still protect identity the same way they protect everything else: with general-purpose backup. A generic backup and recovery solution is inadequate when it comes to detecting, withstanding, and recovering from identity-based attacks. That’s why you need a purpose-built, proven solution for end-to-end resilience that’s built from years of identity-specific expertise across on-prem Active Directory (AD), cloud-based Entra ID, and Okta.

Capability	Cohesity Identity Resilience	Rubrik	Commvault	Quest
Purpose-built hybrid AD + Entra ID + Okta recovery	Yes	Limited	Limited	Yes
Automated, parallel multi-domain-controller recovery of AD	Yes	No — sequential	No — sequential manual	Not publicly disclosed
Clean AD restore that is decoupled from the OS	Yes	No	No	Limited
Ability to target any physical or virtual source for recovery.	Yes	Limited	Yes	No
Ability to recover in isolation (without internet access) with the same UI.	Yes	No	Yes	No
Post-breach identity forensics & dedicated 24/7 IR team	Yes	No	No	No
Real-time, tamper-proof change tracking & automated rollback	Yes	Limited	Limited	Not publicly disclosed
Identity backups isolated from general backup infrastructure (Zero Trust tiering)	Yes	No	No	N/A
Built-in identity threat detection and response capabilities that scan for over 220+ indicators of compromise (IOCs)	Yes	No	No	No
Detect top threats like GoldenTicket, Kerberoasting, and DCShadow attacks	Yes	No	No	Yes

Comparative capability information reflects Cohesity’s analysis of publicly available competitor information as of August 2026. Capabilities and roadmaps change—we encourage you to validate current competitor capabilities as part of your own evaluation.

PROVEN SUCCESS STORIES: Cohesity identity resilience in action

Oil and gas company

Multi-forest environment recovered in isolation

How they were breached

Teams social engineering

Initial access via remote forest

Users phished to reset passwords

Credential compromise on spoofed site

AD trusts exploited across forests

Lateral movement to production

Admin accounts exposed on endpoints

Privilege escalation

<2 hours Isolation and recovery with ADFR

Environment and scope

Vertical: Oil & gas
Scope: On-prem AD recovery
Footprint: Multiple forests across multiple locations
Customer: Existing DSP customer
Breached by social engineering via Teams and phishing

4 - 5 days Estimated time without ADFR

The ADFR advantage

Multi-forest recovery in under two hours
One automated restore across every forest at once
Malware-free recovery means lowered risk of reintroducing the threat

Key takeaway: Multiple forests recovered in under 2 hours – a recovery that would have taken 4 to 5 days without ADFR

National trucking firm

16 Domain controllers recovered

How they were breached

External Teams call + screen share

Initial access via social engineering

Kerberoasting on an SPN account

Credential threat

Lateral movement to find DA credentials

Privilege escalation

DLL hijacking / library injection

Malicious payload

<30 mins DCs restored with ADFR