Cohesity partners with Google for threat protection enhancements

Cohesity has rolled out threat protection enhancements to the Cohesity Data Cloud,  including a contextual display of Google Threat Intelligence insights and incorporating Google Private Scanning.

The embedded Google Threat Intelligence capabilities surface detailed threat information, including investigative learnings from Mandiant’s incident response expertise and threat analysis, directly within the Cohesity Data Cloud user interface.

IT and security teams can rapidly assess suspicious files using the latest indicators of compromise (IOCs), reputation data, and threat details without switching tools or relying on manual handoffs

Cohesity also introduced a “secure sandbox analysis” capability, enabled by Google Private Scanning. 

This feature safely detonates suspicious files in a sandbox environment while preserving customer data privacy and sovereignty. The feature brings Google’s frontline security expertise - typically reserved for SOC and IR teams - directly into the cyber resilience layer, where teams make recovery decisions. 

From there, Cohesity provides users with detailed behavioural analysis that reveals potential system changes, network activity, registry modifications, and other payload behaviour. This allows teams to determine the actual risk posed by unknown or evasive malware before restoring data or reintroducing files into production. 

Because analysis occurs in a private scanning environment, organisations gain deep behavioural insight without exposing sensitive backup data to shared or third-party infrastructure, according to Cohesity.

These enhancements build on Cohesity’s recent threat protection innovations, including rapid threat hunting and flexible scanning options, and closely follow on from Cohesity’s expanded collaboration with Google Cloud.

Cohesity FortKnox, a managed cyber vault solution, is now available on Google Cloud. FortKnox claims to increase cyber resilience by maintaining an isolated, air-gapped copy of critical enterprise data, ensuring clean recovery even in worst-case scenarios where attackers compromise primary systems and traditional backups.

“At Google Cloud, we understand firsthand how attackers hide malicious payloads in places traditional security tools never look—including backups,” said Miton Adhikari, head of security OEM partnerships at Google.

“By embedding Google Threat Intelligence and private sandboxing directly into Cohesity’s cyber resilience platform, organisations can detect what others miss and recover with greater speed and confidence.”

“One of the biggest challenges for security and IT teams in ANZ today is the complexity of managing uncoordinated tools and solutions," said James Eagleton, ANZ MD of Cohesity, said.

"By combining Cohesity’s AI-powered platform with Google’s industry-leading threat intelligence, we can help to simplify workflows - significantly improving our customers’ ability to detect, analyse, and eliminate hidden threats, moving them from reactive to proactive threat intelligence.”