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Cohesity, an AI-powered data security provider, and Semperis, an AI-powered identity security and cyber resilience provider, have jointly announced Cohesity Identity Resilience, a new Cohesity solution powered by Semperis, to enhance the defense of critical Microsoft Active Directory assets against cyber threats.
Identity Resilience solution targets defense, recovery, and post-attack investigation
The Cohesity Identity Resilience solution enables companies to proactively harden defenses, recover rapidly, and conduct comprehensive post-attack forensic investigations to maintain operational resilience when foundational identity systems are targeted.
The solution is currently available for purchase.
“Identity is the new battleground, and enterprises need solutions that combine prevention, resilience, and recovery without adding complexity to their existing cyber resilience strategy,” said Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen. “Cohesity Identity Resilience delivers a modern, proven approach that helps organizations protect the foundation of their digital operations, so they can recover quickly from even the most critical attacks and remain cyber resilient.”
The importance of securing Active Directory
Active Directory plays a significant role in many enterprise IT environments, managing authentication and access to critical systems, applications, and data. This makes it a primary target for threat actors. When it is compromised, attackers can gain unrestricted access to IT resources, resulting in ransomware infections, data theft, and prolonged business disruptions.
Cohesity Identity Resilience provides protection and recovery for Active Directory across hybrid environments. It enables users to protect and secure on-premises Active Directory and extends those safeguards to Microsoft Entra ID in the cloud. Through Cohesity Identity Resilience, organizations are enabled to protect and recover the source of authority for objects synchronized across their entire Active Directory and Entra ID identity landscape.
“Active Directory compromises are devastating because they give attackers so many paths to take advantage of critical systems,” said Mickey Bresman, chief executive officer of Semperis. “By partnering with Cohesity, we’re integrating our industry-leading Active Directory technology with the broadly adopted Cohesity Data Cloud, ensuring the world’s largest global organizations have a trusted, streamlined path to protect against and recover from even the most sophisticated identity-based attacks.”
Semperis’ expertise in AD enables businesses to recover faster
This new solution builds on Semperis’ expertise and technology in Active Directory protection and recovery to deliver automated, malware-free recovery capabilities that minimize downtime and ensure a clean, reliable path back to regular business operation.
Among the benefits of the new solution are:
- Proactive Active Directory hardening: Provides the ability to scan on-prem or hybrid Active Directory environments for hundreds of indicators of exposure (IOEs), see risk scores, apply remediation guidance, and identify and prioritize attack paths that bad actors could utilize to reach critical privileged assets (Tier 0).
- Secure, immutable backups with capability for cyber vaulting: Enables consistent backup and recovery workflows while providing isolation of AD backups.
- Rapid and secure recovery: Restores Active Directory forests after an attack or catastrophic failure, ensuring minimal downtime.
- Specialized identity forensics and incident response capabilities: Cleanses the system of attack artifacts, ensuring the restoration of Active Directory to a trusted environment.
“Active Directory compromises often turn into prolonged business disruptions that are costly and difficult to contain,” said Scott Harrison, director of hybrid infrastructure solutions at CDW. “With Cohesity Identity Resilience, powered by Semperis, we see a solution that directly addresses this gap– helping enterprises strengthen defenses, recover quickly, and maintain confidence in their core identity systems. It’s the kind of capability our customers have been asking for, and it represents an important step forward in building true cyber resilience.”
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