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Cohesity Agent Resilience 

Protect and recover the infrastructure that powers AI agents 

AI agents are now one of the primary ways organizations interact with their data. And when an agent goes rogue, and acts on corrupted or compromised information, one thing matters most: how fast you can get back to a trusted state. 

AI agents are moving from pilots to production faster than most organizations can secure them. In fact, enterprises expect to be running agents at scale in a matter of months.  

The challenge 

AI agents have autonomy — they execute tasks, they trigger workflows, they act. As they move from pilot into production, their blast radius expands to the systems and the core databases that run the business. 

As agents do more for your business, the impact of potential failure grows. A single agent can interact with multiple systems. A network of agents can share information, trigger actions, and amplify mistakes at machine speed. Errors can compound before people intervene, even while identity and access checks continue to pass.  

Why you must protect agent state 

Agent state is the complete snapshot of an agent's memory, configuration, and connections at a given moment — everything it needs to know, remember, and act on. But most organizations aren't protecting any of it today. And without an agentic cyber resilience plan, your business is at risk. 

Agent Memory

Agent Configuration 

Agent Topology 

What it is 
What the agent remembers. 
 

Includes 
Conversation history, session context, and learned context. 
 

Cyber Resilience Imperative 
Regularly back up this data. Be ready to restore memory to a trusted point the moment it's compromised. 

What it is 
How the agent is instructed to behave. 

 

Includes 
Prompts, personas, system instructions, and guardrails. 

Cyber Resilience Imperative 
Regularly back up this data. Be ready to restore configuration to a trusted point before unintended or unauthorized changes take hold. 

What it is 
What surrounds and connects the agent. 

Includes 
Supported runtime components, gateways, tools, and data resources. 

Cyber Resilience Imperative 
Map these dependencies continuously. Know your impact radius and protection gaps before you ever need to recover. 

Three ways agents can go wrong and perform destructive actions 

Compromised state

High-agency actions 

Shadow agents 

What happens 
Prompt injection or bad context corrupts what an agent believes or is permitted to do.


What recovery requires 
A known-good snapshot to roll back to. 

What happens 
A high-autonomy agent changes multiple systems before a human can react. 
 

What recovery requires 
Point-in-time recovery of the full agent stack - not just the data it touched. 

What happens 
Agents built and run outside any central inventory. 
 

What recovery requires 
Continuous discovery of agent configs, memory, and connections — including the ones nobody signed off on. 


Your agentic stack is now Tier-0 infrastructure 

Since agents now perform mission-critical operations, you need to consider your agentic stack as part of your core cyber resilience strategy. Here’s the good news – you can follow the same best practices you’ve used to protect and secure your data estate today across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and edge environments. 

Every layer of the agent stack holds state, and every layer must be protected and secured, from the agent's own memory down to the data it can reach. Just like other areas of your IT estate, each layer needs to be recoverable, not just visible. 

  • Agent layer — configurations, memory, credentials, guardrails 
  • Execution layer — runtimes, workflows, model settings, orchestration 
  • Tools & integrations — MCP servers, function definitions, external links, connectors 
  • Data & storage — vector stores, databases, file systems, logs 
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The solution: Cohesity Agent Resilience 

Many vendors promise good outcomes: better detection, better control towers to watch what agents are doing. But none of them answers the question that matters the moment something goes wrong: how do you get back to a known-good state as quickly as possible?  

Cohesity Agent Resilience is the answer.  

Discover agent dependencies, protect agent state, and recover to a trusted state, extending your cyber resilience strategy to agentic infrastructure. What’s more, with Cohesity Agent Resilience, every agent action becomes recoverable and auditable. 

What Cohesity Agent Resilience protects
 

Protect the Agent Stack 

Protect What the Agent Impacts 

The components that determine how an agent behaves:

  • Memory
  • Configuration
  • Guardrails
  • Prompts
  • Runtimes
  • Gateways

The data, applications, and systems an agent interacts with.

  • Databases
  • Vector stores
  • File systems
  • Logs

Recovery with Cohesity Agent Resilience 

Swift recovery from agent failure depends on the root cause. Cohesity Agent Resilience helps you bounce back from these three common failure scenarios: 

Recover from compromised memory 

Reverse unintended configuration changes 

Recover confidently from suspicious behavior 

Restore memory to a trusted point before an agent stored or learned incorrect, malicious, or misleading context. 

Roll back to a known-good configuration when changes to instructions, guardrails, permissions, or settings cause an agent to behave unexpectedly. 

When security, observability, or AI management tools flag abnormal behavior, use a trusted recovery point to restore agent state — fast. 

Cohesity Agent Resilience delivers transformative outcomes 

  • Avoid full rebuilds and cut recovery time from hours to minutes. Use granular, point-in-time recovery to restore protected memory and configuration to a trusted baseline — instead of manually recreating accumulated context, workflows, and relationships from scratch. 
  • Preserve prior work. Avoid rerunning previous interactions solely to rebuild deleted or corrupted memory, which may also help you avoid unnecessary token consumption. 
  • Reduce the impact of agent-driven incidents. Understand dependencies and accelerate recovery when agents affect systems and data. 
  • Strengthen auditability. Maintain protected point-in-time versions of supported agent state for recovery and investigation. 

Why your peers trust Cohesity Agent Resilience 

Many platforms help organizations deploy, manage, and observe AI agents. Only Cohesity focuses on helping you restore operations once an agent goes wrong. 

Cohesity Agent Resilience complements agent control and observability platforms with a protection and recovery layer. When an issue is detected, organizations can restore the state that determines agent behavior and return to a point they trust. 

Built on the same cyber resilience foundation trusted to protect enterprise data across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments, Cohesity Agent Resilience extends those principles to the agentic enterprise. 

Scaling agents into production doesn't mean you have to scale your risk exposure. 
 

Get started with Cohesity Agent Resilience today 

Contact your Cohesity account team to learn more about Cohesity Agent Resilience. 

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