Cohesity expands data protection and security offerings

Cohesity released enhancements to its data protection and security portfolio to reinforce its foundation for enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) resilience; the updates included new sovereign cloud partnerships, enhanced threat detection, and simplified packaging for midsize organizations.

The company introduced an Enterprise AI Resilience strategy and launched Cohesity Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) powered by Cyera, and it described advancements to Cohesity Gaia intended to unify protection, security, and AI-driven insights within a single platform for the AI Edge Resource Allocator (ERA).

Technical changes included integrated threat scanning for self-managed Cohesity FortKnox deployments and for dark-site Cohesity Data Cloud environments, enabling malware and Indicators of Compromise (IOC) scanning of vaulted data in isolated settings. The release also added self-encrypting drives and integrated malware scanning for the Cohesity NetBackup Flex Appliance, and a declarative recovery approach that rebuilt cloud application environments from Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) configurations. The company described a managed service option for Cohesity FortKnox on Google Cloud and integrations with Google Threat Intelligence and Google Private Scanning within Cohesity Data Cloud.

Cohesity said Cohesity DSPM powered by Cyera provided continuous discovery, classification, and posture analysis of sensitive data across cloud, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and AI-powered environments to support prioritized remediation. The company also described federated semantic search via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable AI-powered applications such as Glean to access governed backup data and announced a Cohesity Gaia Catalog to surface protected data to analytics platforms like Databricks and Microsoft Fabric.

“AI is increasing both the value of data and the risk surrounding it,” said Vasu Murthy, chief product officer, Cohesity.

The company said the Cohesity Gaia Catalog will enable teams to discover and access protected data directly from analytics platforms like Databricks and Microsoft Fabric, and it introduced Cohesity Essentials to provide simplified pricing and packaging for midsize organizations.