GEC NEWS WIRECohesity has expanded the Cohesity Cyber Event Response Team (CERT) service to include partnerships with leading incident response (IR) vendors. The Cohesity CERT team has years of specialized incident response expertise and has helped numerous customers respond and recover quickly from high-stakes security events since its formation in 2021. By partnering with leading IR vendors such as Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, Arctic Wolf, Sophos, Fenix24, and Semperis, Cohesity CERT augments the traditional IR process, infusing rich data and backup and recovery expertise, helping to speed investigations and enable customers to recover quicker from incidents.
Using native platform capabilities, Cohesity CERT can share a consolidated set of customer-approved operational data with its IR partners, including logs, reports, inventories, and more. This rich dataset, together with Cohesity CERT’s deep data security and recovery expertise, enhances the digital forensics, threat intelligence, and containment capabilities of IR partners, enabling them to perform more effective and efficient analysis of the cyber incident and quickly resolve issues while reducing business downtimes. Customers also have peace of mind their IR partner of choice can collaborate directly with Cohesity to streamline their cyber response and ensure they restore clean data faster.
“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,” said Sanjay Poonen, CEO, Cohesity. “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.”
Johnny Karam, Managing Director and Vice President, International Emerging Markets at Cohesity, added: “Cyber-attacks are a business certainty, and the speed and accuracy of communication determine the level of business impact and compliance risk. New national and international regulations across all markets in the Emerging Regions clearly dictate the financial, reputational, and business consequences of security breaches. Therefore, our priority is to ensure Cohesity customers have maximum insight that can be rapidly shared with approved parties, including external incident response providers and relevant authorities. We enable the widest and most detailed analytics through integration with the most globally trusted Data Security Alliance partners, which is why 85% of Fortune 100 companies, operating mostly in tightly regulated financial, pharmaceutical, and public sectors, trust us to deliver business resiliency and compliance integrity.”
“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,” said Kerri Shafer-Page, Vice President, Incident Response, Arctic Wolf. ”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,” said John Anthony Smith, founder and chief security officer of Conversant Group. “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.”
For customer security, certain formalities and documentation may be required for advanced information sharing activities. Please contact Cohesity.
