Cohesity, the leader in AI-powered data security announces that it has expanded the Cohesity Cyber Event Response Team (CERT) service to include partnerships with leading incident response (IR) vendors.

Sanjay Poonen, CEO, Cohesity says, “With ransomware, data breaches, and other cyber threats becoming an unavoidable reality, organizations need the assurance that they can bounce back faster, stronger, and smarter. Cohesity CERT is a natural extension of our mission to empower organizations with resilient, secure data management. We’re doubling our commitment to our customers by ensuring they have the expertise and tools to navigate and recover from cyber crises effectively. Cyber resilience is the cornerstone of modern cybersecurity, and we are committed to helping our customers achieve it.”

Sam Rubin, SVP of Consulting and Threat Intelligence, Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks says, “Cybercriminals are increasingly emboldened by new technology, making cyberattacks more effective and efficient. Unit 42 provides customers with leading incident response expertise, threat intelligence, and proactive services, enabling them to effectively address the most challenging threats. Through this new partnership, Cohesity will play a crucial role in expediting the backup and business recovery processes of shared customers. This collaboration will greatly benefit our customers, ensuring a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity that enhances the overall investigation process for Unit 42.”

Kerri Shafer-Page, Vice President, Incident Response, Arctic Wolf says, “Time and information are two of the most critical parts of incident response. The more information we have, the quicker we can return a customer to normal operations. Cohesity’s quick response toolkit gives us access to all kinds of data that can enable a more comprehensive investigation and quicker recovery. Partnering with Cohesity CERT adds valuable expertise in backup and recovery and helps us ensure our joint customers are resilient no matter what attackers throw at them.”

“Your organization is only as safe as your backup controls are secure, redundant, immutable, and relevant to threat actor playbooks. However, incident response investigations can be complex and time-consuming. Therefore, our long-standing partnership with Cohesity CERT is highly beneficial to our joint customers because it adds valuable expertise in backup and recovery and helps us ensure resiliency no matter what attackers throw at them, ” adds John Anthony Smith, founder and chief security officer of Conversant Group.

Rob Harrison, senior vice president of Product Management for SecOps and Endpoint Security at Sophos says, “By partnering with Cohesity CERT, Sophos’ Incident Response (IR) team of experts who work 27/4 around the world identifying and neutralizing threats can jump right in to assess and react to active threats targeting Cohesity’s customers. This streamlined process is critical because the faster Sophos IR can get involved, the faster the team can disrupt and eject attackers before they exfiltrate data, and carry out ransomware or other damaging activities. With this partnership, Sophos customers will also be referred to Cohesity’s quick response toolkit for comprehensive backup and recovery programs. This collaboration ensures our joint customers are more resilient and able to recover faster from cyberattacks.”

Mickey Bresman, CEO, Semperis says, “Expanding our partnership with Cohesity will improve operational resilience for our joint customers and partners, by protecting the critical pathways that ransomware attackers use to compromise Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID systems. In nearly all ransomware attacks, adversaries target AD or Entra ID as the key to the organization. Without sufficient backup and recovery solutions and regular continuity testing, disruptions of these identity systems can and do occur, costing organizations money and putting critical infrastructure at risk. Semperis’ combined 150+ years of AD experience not only sets us apart in the hybrid identity system security market, but it also enables us to protect top global organizations and rebuild compromised identity systems in hours rather than days, weeks, or months.”