Given the relentless surge in identity-related cyberattacks, organizations face more pressure than ever to safeguard their most critical infrastructure: identity systems powered by Active Directory (AD).
Announced at Cohesity’s Catalyst1 event, a new partnership between Semperis and Cohesity directly answers this call. Cohesity Identity Resilience, powered by Semperis, integrates Cohesity’s automated, immutable protection with Semperis’ rapid recovery capabilities to help organizations reduce risk and ensure business continuity even in the face of evolving cyber threats.
This partnership is the convergence of two industry leaders, each with singular expertise. With Cohesity Identity Resilience, organizations can be confident that their critical identity systems are secure and recoverable. Check out this discussion between Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen and Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman for a first-hand look at how this joint offering can help organizations reduce identity-related cyberattack risk and downtime.
Why Active Directory demands unyielding protection
Active Directory is the backbone of business infrastructure. AD manages the identities that enable every application and service—making it a prime target for attackers. If AD is compromised, business operations come to a halt.
Recovering AD after an attack is notoriously difficult. The complexity of forest recovery, the risk of lingering malware, and the presence of hidden backdoors all demand solutions beyond standard backup and restore. Enterprises need the most robust identity resilience platform—anything less risks reinfection, prolonged outages, and potential reputational damage.
What matters in recovering from identity-related ransomware attacks
A successful recovery hinges on several non-negotiable factors:
- Malware-free backups: Backups must be verified and trusted; otherwise, organizations risk reintroducing malware when restoring AD.
- Fast, clean recovery: Recovery speed is vital, but AD must be restored to a clean environment, without lingering backdoors or attacker persistence.
- Post-breach forensics: After an attack, response teams need identity-specific forensics tools to eradicate malware and prevent follow-on attacks.
From Semperis’ years of direct incident response, we know that hybrid AD environments require protection before, during, and after an attack, along with rigorous hardening and continuous monitoring. Leading IR vendors routinely bring Semperis into engagements for our specialized AD recovery expertise, demonstrating the importance of identity-centric technology, processes, and people.
Key Benefits of the Semperis-Cohesity partnership
With Semperis and Cohesity, organizations gain the industry’s most comprehensive identity cyber resilience platform. Key benefits include:
- Proactive Active Directory security: The ability to scan hybrid Active Directory environments for hundreds of security vulnerabilities, see risk scores, apply expert remediation guidance, and identify and prioritize attack paths that bad actors could use to reach critical privileged assets—including Cohesity storage clusters
- Rapid and secure recovery: Fast, malware-free Active Directory recovery, reducing downtime
- Comprehensive post-breach analysis: Comprehensive post-attack forensics, including rapid assessments within defined incident windows and validation of Active Directory integrity before restoring production systems
Partnership driven by real-world need
This collaboration was forged not in a vacuum, but at the request of mutual customers. Organizations saw the potential in combining the market’s leading AI-powered data security (Cohesity) with the industry’s most comprehensive identity security and cyber resilience offering (Semperis).
As enterprise security teams grappled with increasing attacks on identity infrastructure, they realized only a purpose-built solution could fill the gap between traditional data protection and specialized identity recovery.
With this partnership, enterprises worldwide can now count on faster, safer, and more resilient identity infrastructure—ensuring the backbone of their operations remains secure, even in the face of today’s most devastating cyberattacks.
Want to discover how your organization can consolidate your defensive efforts for meaningful resilience when it counts? Connect with our team to see Cohesity Identity Resilience in action.
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