Introducing Cohesity Identity Resilience: A Game Changer for Identity Protection

A Strong Defense for Critical Identity Infrastructure

Cohesity has teamed up with Semperis to unveil a transformative product: Cohesity Identity Resilience. This innovative solution is designed specifically to safeguard enterprises’ vital identity infrastructure, including Microsoft Active Directory, from an increasing wave of cyberattacks. Now available for purchase, this advanced offering positions itself as the most robust solution in the market, empowering organizations to reinforce their defenses, recover swiftly, and conduct thorough post-attack forensics. This is essential for maintaining operational resilience when identity systems come under threat.

The Importance of Active Directory

Active Directory (AD) plays a pivotal role in the majority of enterprise IT environments. By managing authentication and access to critical applications and data, it functions as the "central nervous system" for these systems. Unfortunately, this critical function makes Active Directory a prime target for cybercriminals. When compromised, intruders can gain unrestricted access to IT resources, leading to potentially catastrophic consequences like ransomware infections, data breaches, and extended business interruptions.

Comprehensive Protection Across Hybrid Environments

Cohesity Identity Resilience offers extensive protection for Active Directory, seamlessly extending its capabilities to Microsoft Entra ID in cloud environments. This flexibility allows organizations to not only secure their on-premises Active Directory but also safeguard their cloud-based identity solutions. The platform ensures that the core authority for objects synchronized across Active Directory and Entra ID remains protected and recoverable.

A Vision for Identity Security

Sanjay Poonen, CEO of Cohesity, underscored the urgency of robust identity security solutions in the face of escalating cyberattacks. “Identity Security is a crucial battlefield,” he said. “Enterprises need solutions that deliver prevention, resilience, and recovery without complicating their existing strategies.” He emphasized that Cohesity Identity Resilience offers a contemporary, proven method for defending the backbone of digital operations, enabling quick recovery from even the most severe identity-related attacks.

Strengthening Channel Partnerships

Yudum Yonak, Senior Channel Director for Cohesity’s International Emerging Region and LATAM, highlighted the significance of this solution for partners and customers alike. “With Cohesity Identity Resilience, we can provide a market-defining tool that combines proactive protection, quick recovery, and post-incident analysis.” In light of the rapidly escalating attacks targeting identity access, this integrated approach allows partners to enhance the resilience of hybrid environments while streamlining management and minimizing risks.

Key Features of Cohesity Identity Resilience

Cohesity Identity Resilience is built upon the solid expertise and technology that Semperis has established in the field of Active Directory protection. This collaboration introduces automated recovery features that are both malware-free and efficient, ensuring minimal downtime and a dependable route back to regular business operations. The solution offers several key benefits:

• Proactive Active Directory Hardening: Users can scan their AD environments for numerous indicators of exposure (IOEs), assess risk levels, and implement remediation strategies to fortify defenses.

• Secure, Immutable Backups: With capabilities for cyber vaulting, the solution ensures backup and recovery processes are consistent and that Active Directory backups are kept isolated.

• Rapid Recovery Capabilities: The platform is engineered to restore Active Directory forests swiftly following a cyberattack or major system failure, minimizing operational downtime.

• Specialized Forensics and Incident Response: The system can remove malicious artifacts left by attackers, ensuring that Active Directory is restored to a trusted state.

• Post-Breach Analysis: Comprehensive forensic support is included, allowing organizations to perform rapid assessments and validate Active Directory integrity before restoring production systems.

A Unified Front Against Cyber Threats

Mickey Bresman, CEO of Semperis, noted the severe implications of Active Directory compromises, which provide attackers with numerous entry points into critical systems. By partnering with Cohesity, Semperis is integrating its market-leading Active Directory technologies with the widely adopted Cohesity Data Cloud. This collaboration aims to equip global organizations with a reliable, streamlined strategy to defend against and recover from sophisticated identity-based attacks.

Cohesity Identity Resilience stands as a testament to the strategic alliance between Cohesity and Semperis, which began in 2024, focusing on addressing the pressing needs in identity security for today’s enterprises.