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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.
76%
of organizations have been victims of cyberattacks with material business impact*
87%
Experienced revenue loss as a result*
92%
Experienced legal or regulatory consequences*
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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.
Discover and protect all data
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.
- 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.
- Automate backup and recovery of your identity environment, including Active Directory, with RTO targets that match your most critical systems.
Ensure data is always recoverable
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 auth, role-based permissions, multi-person approval for sensitive operations – zero trust all the way.
- Deploy a cyber vault – logical air-gapped copy of data for ironclad isolation and an extra layer of resilience.
- Retain a long history of recovery points (60+ days) for rapid search and restore – without the limitations that push older backups to archives.
Detect and investigate threats
Many cyberattacks are designed to be stealthy. Scanning production alone isn't enough. Extend threat detection into your backup data, where attackers assume you won't look, and accelerate investigations to prevent attacks, and limit the damage of an incident.
Key actions:
- Monitor 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 before they touch production.
- Get your InfoSec and IT teams aligned on the same intelligence with integrations to your most important security tools.
- Engage Cohesity CERT early to accelerate detection and incident response.
Practice application resilience
Congrats – with Steps 1-3 done, your platform's stood up, hardened, vaulted. You've scanned threats and hunted anomalies. Now? Define your Minimum Viable Company and build your Digital Jump Bag. 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. Imagine: your systems down, pressure is mounting – but you're calm, because you've executed your plan plenty of times before.
Key actions:
- Define and build your Digital Jump Bag — so your team can restore trusted tools, credentials, and configurations and start response, even when primary systems are down.
- Define your MVC: identify the foundational workloads — identity (Active Directory), infrastructure, data, and critical applications — and the order they must come back online.
- Automate and rehearse recovery workflows so teams execute validated paths, not improvised ones, when pressure is highest.
- Embed threat scanning into recovery workflows – and break the doom loop of attack, recovery, and reinfection.
Optimize your data risk posture
Ransomware's evolving, to act faster and be even more destructive. And your data? Exploding across on-prem, SaaS, cloud, edge. It’s increasingly difficult to keep track of it all, and you’re never quite sure if your most important data is protected properly. Hidden dangers are everywhere.
The solution: 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:
- Discover and classify: Find out what data is where - scan your environments, assess what data is where, how it’s accessed and used, including by AI, and what protection level it has.
- Cover your backup estate: 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
Cyber Incident Response Simulator
See how you’d respond under pressure
Think you’re ready for a ransomware attack? Step into our hands-on, gamified simulator and put your incident response skills to the test.
Cohesity CERT (Cyber Event Response Team)
Prepare before. Recover fast. CERT is with you before the attack and through it.
- Reduce 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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