The combination of capabilities will expand AI security with built-in data resilience, ransomware recovery, and AI-powered infrastructure protection
Eon, the first intelligent cloud infrastructure for data backup and AI e SentinelOne (NYSE: S), a global leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, enters into a partnership to help security teams protect, detect and recover from threats across the entire attack surface of cloud data and AI.
Organizations that are accelerating their adoption of AI are facing increasingly complex challenges: AI workloads depend on enormous volumes of sensitive data, operate on complex cloud infrastructures, and run continuously at machine speed. Each stage of the AI lifecycle – from data, to infrastructure, to runtime – introduces new attack avenues and new types of failover that traditional, fragmented tools can't handle.
The partnership between SentinelOne and Eon will focus on integrating the Singularity™ platform's end-to-end AI-powered security with Eon's cloud-native data resilience solution to protect the entire lifecycle of AI workloads. By combining SentinelOne's DSPM detection and classification capabilities with Eon's Data Protection product and Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) solution, which includes a Ransomware protection for databases Unique in the industry, organizations can ensure that sensitive data is not only identified, but also backed up and compliant with regulations.
Eon's autonomous CBPM solution continuously classifies cloud resources and automatically enforces backup policies. Designed for high performance on a tiered storage system, Eon's open format storage layer enables continuous anomaly detection and enables granular restores to ensure error-free data recovery. This integrated approach surfaces priority alerts for unrecoverable data stores, allowing security teams to bridge the gap between data sensitivity and operational resilience before high-risk data enters an AI pipeline. To defend against sophisticated threats, Eon's indexed storage metadata enables heuristic anti-ransomware techniques such as entropy analysis, file extension change detection, behavioral anomaly monitoring, and locking snapshots in air-gapped vaults. Combined with SentinelOne's detection and response capabilities, as well as Purple AI's automated investigations, this synergy enables early detection of reconnaissance activity within model weights and training sets, providing a shift-left defense for the data layer and a deterministic recovery path through searchable backups and granular file-level recovery in the event of an attack.
Furthermore, the collaboration extends to the protection of AI agents and autonomous infrastructure, monitoring these high-impact operational identities in real-time to promptly counter any manipulation or escalation of privileges, while ensuring that the data layer remains immutable and recoverable.
"AI has fundamentally changed the security equation. It's not just about protecting systems, but ensuring that the data they rely on is constantly protected, accessible and recoverable," said Ofir Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Eon. "SentinelOne has developed one of the most advanced AI-powered security platforms, and together, we are extending that intelligence to the data layer. We are enabling a new security model, where enterprises can not only detect and respond to threats, but also fully restore data and continue to operate without interruption."
“AI security requires protecting data, infrastructure and runtime as a single interconnected system,” said Rob Salvagno, Chief Corporate Development Officer at SentinelOne. "Eon adds the layer of data resilience that complements this vision. The investment reflects the belief that data recoverability is critical to AI security. Together, we offer protection and recovery across the entire AI lifecycle."
As part of the deal, SentinelOne also has invested in Eon through its investment division, S Ventures. The investment underlines SentinelOne's belief that the next era of AI security will be defined by the ability to make data not only secure, but also actionable – and that Eon is the only platform specifically designed to deliver that capability at scale.
