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C has announced an expanded relationship with

Cohesity and Microsoft to simplify how businesses protect and secure data from cyberthreats

ohesity , a leader in data security and management ,

C has announced an expanded relationship with

Microsoft that is focused on helping enterprises globally broaden and harden data security – critical as cyberattacks are occurring every 39 seconds with 30,000 websites hacked daily and costing the global economy US $ 6.9 billion in 2021 .
There are two major elements to the expanded relationship between Cohesity and Microsoft :
• Cohesity announces integrations that help IT and SecOps leaders defend against cyberthreats
• Microsoft Sentinel : Cohesity ’ s DataProtect backup and recovery solution , both on-premises as well as its Backup-as-a-Service ( BaaS ) offering , now integrates with Microsoft Sentinel – the cloud-native security information and event management ( SIEM ) platform . Through this integration , joint customers can benefit from streamlined access to incident reporting and ransomware alerts .
• Azure AD and Multi-Factor Authentication : Azure Active Directory is a standard identity platform for Microsoft customers around the globe . Cohesity provides seamless integration with Azure AD and Multi- Factor Authentication ( MFA ) to safely and securely manage and access Cohesity products , including Cohesity Data Cloud and Cohesity Cloud Services .
• Microsoft Purview via Cohesity ’ s partnership with BigID : Get actionable data intelligence for data discovery , privacy , security and governance across your Microsoft environment with Cohesity data classification that is powered by BigID . BigID has built integration with Microsoft Purview that joint customers can benefit from .
• Cohesity Cloud Services are available on Azure , empowering Microsoft customers to easily protect and secure their data across hybrid environments
• Cohesity FortKnox , Cohesity ’ s popular SaaS cyber vaulting service , provides another layer of protection with predictable data recovery . Live demos and product previews of Cohesity FortKnox on Azure are available with general availability planned in the coming months .
• Cohesity DataProtect delivered as-a-Service , an easyto-use enterprise-grade BaaS offering , now supports Microsoft 365 . Customers can use Cohesity ’ s BaaS offering , which protects critical SaaS , cloud-native and on-premises data , to back up their Microsoft 365 data to a data plane hosted on Azure .
Ushering in a new era in deriving value from data
Cohesity announced that it will put forth its AI-ready data structure that , when combined with OpenAI , will advance generative AI initiatives around threat detection , classification , anomaly detection and more .
“ Cohesity is integrating with Microsoft ’ s broad platforms across security , cloud and AI – all in order to help joint customers secure and protect their data against escalating cyberattacks ,” said Sanjay Poonen , CEO and President , Cohesity . “ This expanded collaboration will make it simple for thousands of Microsoft customers and ecosystem partners to access Cohesity ’ s award-winning platform , including its differentiated benefits of scalability , simplicity and security , in hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud scenarios .” u intelligent DATA SECURITY www . intelligentciso . com
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