Cohesity Unveils Key Security and Cloud Integrations with Microsoft and Announces Expanded AI Vision
Cohesity, a leader in innovative data management, announced that it has intensified its relationship with Microsoft to help companies expand globally and strengthen data security, which has become increasingly critical today: a cyber attack occurs every 39 seconds and 30,000 websites are hacked every day, with a cost to the global economy estimated at 6.9 billion dollars in 2021[1].
There are two main elements on which the strengthened relationship between Cohesity and Microsoft is based:
- Cohesity announces integrations that help IT and SecOps leaders defend against cyber threats
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- Microsoft Sentinel: The backup and recovery solution DataProtect of Cohesity, both on-premises and as an offering backup as a service, now integrates with Microsoft Sentinel, the cloud-native platform for security information and event management (SIEM). With this integration, customers can benefit from simplified access to incident reporting and ransomware alerts.
- Azure AD e Multi-factor Authentication: Azure Active Directory is a standard identity platform for Microsoft customers around the world. Cohesity offers seamless integration with Azure AD and Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) to securely manage and access Cohesity products, including Cohesity Data Cloud e Cohesity Cloud Services.
- Microsoft Purview thanks to Cohesity's partnership with BigID: Gain data insights for data discovery, privacy, security and governance across your Microsoft environment with Cohesity data classification, powered by BigID. BigID has built an integration with Microsoft Purview that allows mutual customers to benefit.
- Cohesity Cloud Services are now available on Azure, allowing Microsoft customers to easily protect and secure their data across hybrid environments.
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- Cohesity FortKnox, Cohesity's popular SaaS cyber vaulting service, offers an additional layer of protection with predictable data recovery. Live demos and product previews of Cohesity FortKnox on Azure are available now and will be generally available in the coming months.
- Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a service, an easy-to-use enterprise-grade backup as a service (BaaS) offering, now supports Microsoft 365. Customers can use Cohesity's BaaS offering, which protects critical SaaS, cloud-native and on-premise data, to back up Microsoft 365 data to an Azure-hosted data plane.
The beginning of a new era in creating value from data
Cohesity, that already uses Artificial Intelligence To help customers detect anomalies that may indicate a cyber attack in progress, it believes AI can be used in other ways to quickly analyze large volumes of data and allow IT and security operations to respond to a breach more quickly and accurately.
Today Cohesity announced that it will advance its AI-enabled data structure which, combined with OpenAI, will advance generative AI initiatives for threat detection, classification, anomaly detection and more. To learn more about the impact AI can have on data security and management, Cohesity's expanding partnership with Microsoft, and the opportunities for customers to protect, secure and derive value from data, watch today at 7 p.m. the special edition of “Spotlight on Security” which will see the participation of important managers from Microsoft and Cohesity.
“Cohesity is integrating with Microsoft's broad security, cloud and AI platforms to help customers secure and protect their data against growing cyberattacks,” he said. Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President of Cohesity. “This strengthened collaboration will make it easy for thousands of customers and partners across the Microsoft ecosystem to access Cohesity's award-winning platform and its distinctive benefits of scale, simplicity and security, in hybrid-cloud or multicloud scenarios.”
“Today we use both Cohesity and Microsoft solutions and are excited about this increased focus on improving security, using cloud innovations to drive cyber resilience, and gaining more valuable insights from data,” he highlighted Niall Townley, Backup Administrator del Community Health Plan di Washington. "For organizations like ours that continue to accelerate the move to a hybrid, multicloud world, it's great to be able to continue to manage data easily and securely, wherever it resides, through the Cohesity Data Cloud platform. Together, all of these benefits help us optimize the cloud while mitigating the risk of cyber threats."
"As more organizations expand their data into hybrid and multicloud environments, vulnerabilities to attacks increase and security and data protection become increasingly complex. Cohesity seeks to meet customers where they are, whether that's on-premises or across multiple cloud providers," he said. Phil Goodwin, Research Vice President di IDC. "Cohesity strives to help customers get more value from their data through better data logistics, a key part of which is data security and protection. We believe the integration with Microsoft Azure will help Cohesity and its customers stay one step ahead of cybercriminals with smarter security, now and with other exciting future use cases."
For more information:
- Follow thespecial edition of “Spotlight on Security” today at 7pm, in which Microsoft managers will participate:
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- Charlie Bell, Executive Vice President of Security
- Eric Boyd, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's AI platform
- Jurgen Willis, Vice President di Microsoft Azure Advanced Workloads and Storage
- Join Cohesity at RSA Conference 2023, scheduled for April 24-27 in San Francisco, where Microsoft Sentinel integration will be showcased at booth 5360.
- Hear from Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President of Cohesity, on why customers and partners are choosing Cohesity in this video
- Find out more about Cohesity Catalyst, the summit on data management and security to be held from 23 to 25 May.
[1] Zippa: 30 Important Cybersecurity Statistics [2023] Data, trends, and more.
