Cohesity and Microsoft to simplify how businesses protect and secure data from cyberthreats

Cohesity, a leader in data security and management, has announced an expanded relationship with Microsoft that is focused on helping enterprises globally broaden and harden data security – critical as cyberattacks are occurring every 39 seconds with 30,000 websites hacked daily and costing the global economy US$6.9 billion in 2021.

There are two major elements to the expanded relationship between Cohesity and Microsoft: 

• Cohesity announces integrations that help IT and SecOps leaders defend against cyberthreats

• Microsoft Sentinel: Cohesity’s DataProtect backup and recovery solution, both on-premises as well as its Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) offering, now integrates with Microsoft Sentinel – the cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) platform. Through this integration, joint customers can benefit from streamlined access to incident reporting and ransomware alerts.
  • Azure AD and multi-factor authentication: Azure Active Directory is a standard identity platform for Microsoft customers around the globe. Cohesity provides seamless integration with Azure AD and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to safely and securely manage and access Cohesity products, including Cohesity Data Cloud and Cohesity Cloud Services.
  • Microsoft Purview via Cohesity’s partnership with BigID: Get actionable data intelligence for data discovery, privacy, security and governance across your Microsoft environment with Cohesity data classification that is powered by BigID. BigID has built integration with Microsoft Purview that joint customers can benefit from.
• Cohesity Cloud Services are available on Azure, empowering Microsoft customers to easily protect and secure their data across hybrid environments 
  • Cohesity FortKnox, Cohesity’s popular SaaS cyber vaulting service, provides another layer of protection with predictable data recovery. Live demos and product previews of Cohesity FortKnox on Azure are available with general availability planned in the coming months.
  • Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a service, an easy-to-use enterprise-grade BaaS offering, now supports Microsoft 365. Customers can use Cohesity’s BaaS offering, which protects critical SaaS, cloud-native and on-premises data, to back up their Microsoft 365 data to a data plane hosted on Azure. 

Ushering in a new era in deriving value from data

Cohesity announced that it will put forth its AI-ready data structure that, when combined with OpenAI, will advance generative AI initiatives around threat detection, classification, anomaly detection and more. To hear more about the impact AI can have on data security and management, Cohesity’s expanded relationship with Microsoft and opportunities for customers to secure, protect and derive value from data, there is a special edition of Spotlight on Security on April 11 2023 which will feature key Microsoft and Cohesity executives.

“Cohesity is integrating with Microsoft’s broad platforms across security, cloud and AI – all in order to help joint customers secure and protect their data against escalating cyberattacks,” said Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, Cohesity. “This expanded collaboration will make it simple for thousands of Microsoft customers and ecosystem partners to access Cohesity’s award-winning platform, including its differentiated benefits of scalability, simplicity and security, in hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud scenarios.”