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Cohesity and Semperis announced a new product, Cohesity Identity Resilience, powered by Semperis, to defend enterprises’ critical identity infrastructure, including Microsoft Active Directory assets from cyberattacks. Now available for purchase from Cohesity, the solution is the strongest of its kind in the market, enabling companies to proactively harden defences, recover rapidly, and conduct comprehensive post-attack forensic investigations. Role within IT environments Active Directory is the central nervous system of most enterprise IT environments, managing authentication and access to critical systems, applications, and data. Active Directory’s crucial role within IT environments makes it a primary target for cybercriminals. When Active Directory is compromised, attackers can gain unrestricted access to IT resources, often resulting in ransomware infection, data theft, and prolonged business disruption. Users protect and secure on-premises Cohesity Identity Resilience supports Active Directory protection and recovery across hybrid environments Cohesity Identity Resilience supports Active Directory protection and recovery across hybrid environments. The solution helps users protect and secure on-premises Active Directory and extends these safeguards to Microsoft Entra ID in the cloud. Organisations can protect and recover the source of authority for objects synchronised across their entire Active Directory and Entra ID identity landscape.  Key battlegrounds of cyberattacks “Identity Security is one of the key battlegrounds of cyberattacks for enterprises and governments. They need solutions that combine prevention, resilience, and recovery without adding complexity to their existing cyber resilience strategy,” said Sanjay Poonen, chief executive officer, Cohesity. “Cohesity Identity Resilience delivers a modern, proven approach that helps organisations protect the foundation of their digital operations, so they can recover quickly from even the most critical attacks on identity infrastructures and remain cyber resilient. We’re excited to partner with Semperis on this effort.”  Semperis’ proven expertise and technology Cohesity Identity Resilience builds on Semperis’ proven expertise and technology in Active Directory protection and recovery, delivering automated, malware-free recovery capabilities that minimise downtime and ensure a clean, reliable path back to normal business operations. With Cohesity Identity Resilience, customers benefit from: Proactive Active Directory hardening – Provides the ability to scan on-prem or hybrid Active Directory environments for hundreds of indicators of exposure (IOEs), see risk scores, apply remediation guidance, and identify and prioritise attack paths that bad actors could use to reach critical privileged assets (Tier 0).  Secure, immutable backups with capability for cyber vaulting – Enables consistent backup and recovery workflows while providing isolation of AD backups.  Rapid and secure recovery – Restores Active Directory forests after a cyberattack or catastrophic failure, ensuring minimal downtime.  Specialised identity forensics and incident response capabilities – Cleanses the system of attacker artefacts, ensuring Active Directory is restored to a trusted environment.  Comprehensive post-breach analysis – Offers comprehensive post-attack forensic support, including rapid assessments within defined incident windows, and validation of Active Directory integrity before restoring production systems.  Advantages of critical systems Cohesity Identity Resilience builds on the partnership between Cohesity and Semperis that began in 2024 “Active Directory compromises are devastating because they give attackers so many paths to take advantage of critical systems,” said Mickey Bresman, chief executive officer, Semperis. “By partnering with Cohesity, we’re integrating our industry-pioneering Active Directory technology with the broadly adopted Cohesity Data Cloud, ensuring the world’s largest global organisations have a trusted, streamlined path to protect against and recover from even the most sophisticated identity-based attacks.” Cohesity Identity Resilience builds on the partnership between Cohesity and Semperis that began in 2024. Important step forward in building true cyber resilience "Active Directory compromises often turn into prolonged business disruptions that are costly and difficult to contain,” said Scott Harrison, director, Hybrid Infrastructure Solutions, CDW. “With Cohesity Identity Resilience, powered by Semperis, we see a solution that directly addresses this gap—helping enterprises strengthen defences, recover quickly, and maintain confidence in their core identity systems. It’s the kind of capability our customers have been asking for, and it represents an important step forward in building true cyber resilience.” 

Cohesity, a pioneer in AI-powered data security, now supports the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council with Cohesity DataProtect. This allows the organisation to drastically reduce the time and resources needed to manage its backups, both on-premises and in the cloud and significantly accelerate the data recovery processes to enhance its cyber resilience. The Haute-Garonne Departmental Council manages a vast collection of data covering different functions, including building plans, architectural services, departmental archives, social assistance requests, and even transport cards. This diversity of formats and data silos made recovery a long process that required many internal resources. Cohesity DataProtect Cohesity allowed the Departmental Council to harmonise all its data into a simple-to-use, high-performance key To resolve any incident, “You had to be an expert in backup administration,” explains Jean-Xavier Mauruc, database systems administrator at the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council. The migration to Cohesity has allowed the Departmental Council to harmonise all their data into a simple-to-use, high-performance solution. Cohesity DataProtect helped to streamline the Departmental Council's backup operations by reducing the number of backup jobs from 150 to around 15. This reduction enabled the Departmental Council to significantly reduce time spent on administrative tasks, from two to three hours per day to just a few minutes, saving it up to 15 working hours per week. Advanced security threats The Departmental Council was also looking for a robust and resilient solution to deal with cyber threats, including the fight against ransomware, while maintaining their existing production infrastructure. The solution had to be easy to use to manage various daily tasks, from integration to corrective and operational maintenance. For Jean-Xavier Mauruc, “DataProtect from Cohesity offers native security improvements. Being a solution specifically designed with advanced security threats in mind, it provides inherent protection against ransomware. Cohesity stood out as an optimal choice.” Cohesity and DataProtect cloud services Beyond the administrative team, the simplified processes and interface of Cohesity and DataProtect cloud services have allowed employees to manage recoveries themselves without additional training, saving both time and money. The adaptation took place very quickly, and the Departmental Council is now well-equipped to protect its various institutional data while continuing to safely promote economic and social progress for the inhabitants of Haute-Garonne. In this territory of more than a million inhabitants, Olivier Savornin, group vice president of EMEA at Cohesity, said, “We are proud to support the Departmental Council in its efforts to secure and manage data, vital for the region's sustainable development.”

Cohesity, a pioneer in AI-powered data security announced the appointment of Vasu Murthy as SVP and Chief Product Officer. Vasu Murthy Murthy is a veteran with over 25 years of experience building enterprise software at scale. He has successfully led software launches at companies ranging from day-zero startups to large, global brands, with strengths in driving rapid growth and managing complex multi-product scaling efforts.  Murthy will bring this vast experience in data protection, security, and analytics to Cohesity to further its industry-leading AI-powered data security portfolio.   Work experience Before Rubrik, Murthy was VP of Products for the Analytics Platform at Oracle, launching several $100M+ products Murthy joined Cohesity from Rubrik, where he was VP of Products and was responsible for the company’s core product, platform, and technology partnerships. He helped grow Rubrik’s ARR tenfold over six years to IPO while navigating transformation across three fronts: software to subscription, on-prem to cloud, and backup to data security. Before Rubrik, Murthy was VP of Products for the Analytics Platform at Oracle, launching several $100M+ products while driving market-leading innovation and cloud transformation. He joined via its acquisition of DataScaler, an in-memory database company he co-founded. Murthy is an IIT Kharagpur graduate based in the Bay Area. Customer-first mindset “Vasu’s strong experience supporting organisations through significant growth and transformational change with a customer-first mindset, as well as his deep domain expertise, made him the perfect fit for Cohesity,” said Sanjay Poonen, president and CEO, of Cohesity. “Vasu has consistently delivered exceptional results in his past experiences, shaping product portfolios to meet customer needs while driving business evolution and transformation. His data protection, security, and analytics expertise will help us further extend our innovations as we enter a new era of Cohesity in the coming years.” Enterprise data protection “Cohesity has taken an aggressive and innovative approach to leveraging AI to strengthen the security of its platform and offer customers new insight into their business data." "And combining Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business will only bring more resources to develop new products at scale, something I’m deeply excited about,” said Murthy.  Differentiated vision and platform “Cohesity has a differentiated vision and platform that has the potential to transform the industry completely." "As we scale our R&D investments and build best-in-class offerings to support global customers, I look forward to partnering with the team to make a bigger impact. I’m thrilled to join Cohesity in their journey as we enter the next growth phase.”   Recent Cohesity highlights Murthy joins Cohesity during a time of significant momentum:  In February, Cohesity announced its intent to combine with Veritas’ data protection business.  In March, Cohesity announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to help organisations safely unlock the power of generative AI, resulting in NVIDIA becoming a new investor.  In April, Cohesity extended its collaboration with IBM to strengthen cyber resilience, which resulted in IBM's investment in the company.  In August, Forbes named Cohesity for the fifth time in its 2024 Cloud 100, and CRN recognised Cohesity Gaia as a 2024 Tech Innovator in the artificial intelligence category. The company continued to bolster its product offerings and drive strategic partner growth, building its strategic partnership with Crowdstrike, expanding its collaboration with Intel, and recently announcing its advanced visualisation tool for Gaia.  Throughout the year, Cohesity’s leadership team welcomed deep industry expertise to continue driving market leadership, including the addition of Dr. Craig Martell as CTO and the appointments of Olivier Savornin and Fraser Hutchinson in EMEA.