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Discover how proactive cybersecurity measures, specifically immutable backups and cyber vaulting, can drastically reduce recovery times and prevent data loss in the face of sophisticated ransomware attacks.
Blaine County School District Recovers from Cyberattack in Six Days Using Cohesity
The Blaine County School District successfully recovered from a November 2023 cyberattack in just six days, incurring zero data loss and paying no ransom. The district credited Cohesity's modern backup posture, which includes immutable backups and its Fort Knox cyber vault, for its rapid restoration capabilities.
This swift recovery contrasts sharply with other organizations affected by the same ransomware actor, which took several weeks to restore operations. The incident highlights the effectiveness of advanced data protection strategies in minimizing disruption and financial impact from cyber threats, enabling critical services like education to quickly resume.
"We recovered the entire school district in 6 days. We had zero data loss coming off of everything and it was so important that it was smooth."
Nvidia Aims to Reinvent Enterprise IT Stack for AI Integration
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, announced the company's vision to reinvent the entire computing stack—including compute, networking, and storage—to seamlessly integrate AI into enterprise IT. This initiative involves developing new server, storage, and networking systems designed to support existing enterprise infrastructure while enabling advanced AI workloads.
Nvidia’s strategy aims to bridge the gap between traditional enterprise IT architecture and the unique demands of AI, allowing common platforms like VMware, Nutanix, and Red Hat to run on this new AI-ready infrastructure. This strategic pivot signifies a foundational shift in how enterprises will adopt and scale AI capabilities, extending beyond specialized AI hardware to a fully integrated, AI-centric IT environment.
"We're going to have to reinvent the whole computing stack so that we can add AI to enterprise IT."
Cohesity Enhances Backup Monitoring with Sophos, Google Threat Intelligence
Cohesity is significantly upgrading its backup monitoring capabilities with four new features designed to detect anomalies and malware. These include integrating DataProtect into its RedLab for refining detection, partnering with Sophos for market-leading threat detection, incorporating Google Threat Intelligence feeds, and enabling ultra-fast hash-based scanning in DataProtect.
These enhancements aim to provide maximum protection against evolving malware, with Sophos offering low false-negative rates and Google Threat Intelligence tracking over 1,100 threat actors. The new features ensure that backups are continuously protected and ready for recovery, offering businesses a more robust defense against cyberattacks.
"Today, I'm proud to announce four new capabilities to address these challenges."
Cohesity Introduces AI-Powered Cyber Recovery Agent for Automated Rehearsals
Cohesity has launched its new Recovery Agent, an AI-powered cyber recovery orchestration tool featuring embedded malware scanning. This agentic AI solution automates cyber recovery processes and rehearsals, generating detailed reports for auditing and assessing recovery times and potential issues. This addresses a critical gap identified by top customers in their cyber posture.
The Recovery Agent supports various workloads across on-premises and cloud environments, integrating with both NetBackup and DataProtect platforms. By automating recovery rehearsals, organizations can gain confidence in their ability to bounce back from cyberattacks, ensuring business continuity and compliance with recovery time objectives.
"Recovery agent uses agentic AI capabilities to help you get started quickly with autocreated blueprints."
Nvidia Foresees Agentic AI Revolutionizing Enterprise Platforms Like Cohesity
Jensen Huang of Nvidia predicts the emergence of agentic AI systems that will operate on enterprise platforms such as Cohesity, rather than rendering existing software obsolete. Nvidia aims to provide the foundational accelerated AI and necessary libraries for enterprise AI, while Cohesity will develop specialized expert agents for data access and problem-solving directly on its platform.
This collaboration envisions a future where AI agents become integral to how businesses interact with and manage their data. Instead of replacing enterprise IT, agentic AI will enhance platforms like Cohesity, enabling more intelligent and automated operations that leverage the unique capabilities of each system.
"I think what's likely to happen is is each one of these platforms, for example, Cohesity, will emerge upon it agentic systems, agents that that will help us do work on top of the Cohesity platform."
Cohesity Partners with Serus for Enhanced Active Directory Protection
Cohesity has announced a partnership with Serus, a leading Active Directory (AD) resilience company, to provide market-leading AD protection and fully automated forest recovery. This collaboration addresses a critical vulnerability, as over 84% of cyberattacks involve Active Directory, making its protection and recovery a complex but essential process.
The partnership aims to bring Serus ADFR together with Cohesity's immutable platform, offering a robust defense against identity-based attacks. By separating Active Directory backups from the rest of the infrastructure, the solution ensures a stronger security posture, providing organizations with advanced forensic tools and identity resilience to counter increasingly sophisticated threats.
"We are thrilled to partner with Serus, the world's leading Active Directory resilience company. We'll bring you the best Active Directory protection in the market today."
Cohesity Gaia to Introduce Sensitive Data Redaction and On-Premises Deployment
Cohesity's Gaia, a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) stack, will soon feature sensitive data redaction capabilities, automatically detecting and removing personally identifiable information and financial details before presenting AI-generated answers. Additionally, Gaia will offer native integrations with collaboration tools like Slack and Google Agent Space, multi-language support, and an on-premises version for private GPT deployments.
The on-premises Gaia, developed in partnership with Nvidia, addresses high demand from government, financial, and sovereign customers for private and secure AI environments. These new features enhance data privacy and compliance, making AI results safer and more accessible while providing flexible deployment options to meet diverse organizational needs.
"Gaia will soon support built-in sensitive data redaction. So Gaia can detect and remove personally identifiable information, financial details, and other sensitive patterns before presenting answers."
Cohesity Unveils NetBackup Direct.io for Faster, Cost-Efficient Storage
Cohesity is launching NetBackup Direct.io, a new feature allowing existing NetBackup customers to leverage Cohesity’s Data Cloud platform as an advanced storage layer. This integration promises faster recovery times, up to half the cost, and greater storage efficiency compared to traditional backup targets. Direct.io provides an efficient, high-performance, and immutable storage solution compatible with all NetBackup data sources.
Beyond storage, the data residing on the Cohesity platform through Direct.io can also be utilized for threat scanning, data classification, and unlocked for AI insights via Cohesity Gaia. This offers NetBackup users a pathway to modernize their data protection infrastructure, enhancing both security and analytical capabilities.
"Direct.io brings the benefits of Cohesity's proven cloudscale, highly available file system as an efficient, high-performance, immutable storage for NetBackup."
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