Cohesity DSPM, powered by Cyera, combines data discovery, classification, and recovery in a single platform—and is designed to help organizations identify AI risks early on.
If you don’t know your data, you can’t protect it or recover it quickly in an emergency. This basic premise of modern data security is becoming increasingly important with the rapid spread of AI applications in companies. Data protection provider Cohesity and AI security platform Cyera are responding to this with a joint product: Cohesity DSPM, powered by Cyera – a solution that combines data discovery, classification, governance, and recovery under one roof.
Data flood overwhelms traditional protection
The background is well known, but the consequences are less so: Sensitive data spreads faster across cloud, SaaS, and AI workloads in modern enterprise architectures than security teams can capture. AI-powered agents create new, difficult-to-track access patterns and increase the risk of data leaks, compliance violations, and business interruptions. Many existing data security posture management (DSPM) solutions reach their limits in such environments: they struggle to keep pace with the scale, complexity, and speed of large enterprises and find it difficult to translate visibility into concrete protective measures or targeted recovery readiness.
Agentless scanning, AI-native classification
The new solution relies on agentless scanning technology and AI-native classification to continuously detect and monitor sensitive data on a large scale. According to the manufacturer, the platform provides insights into petabytes of data within minutes – with a classification accuracy of up to 95 percent. Through unified detection, classification, and health analysis, security teams gain a centralized overview of sensitive data risks and can prioritize actions before incidents occur.
In combination with the Cohesity Data Cloud, the product is designed to close a continuous protection loop: from proactive risk detection to governance and compliance to accelerated recovery after an attack. At the same time, the solution is designed to help identify redundant, obsolete, and unnecessary data sets (known as ROT data), thereby reducing operating costs.
Ransomware victims demand better data classification
Industry analyst Todd Thiemann of Omdia sees the partnership as part of a larger trend: Companies that have suffered successful ransomware attacks identify more precise data classification and better data protection as key areas for action. The combination of scaled data intelligence and enterprise-wide data protection that Cohesity and Cyera are striving for addresses precisely this demand – by aligning transparency, protection, and recovery with common operational goals.
Relevance for the German market
Isabell Rauchenecker, sales manager at Cohesity Germany, points to the specific requirements in this country: Many companies in Germany face the challenge of keeping track of sensitive data across increasingly complex cloud, SaaS, and AI environments. The solution is designed to provide security teams with end-to-end visibility into structured and unstructured data assets for the first time, as well as clear priorities for managing risk – thereby accelerating cloud, SaaS, and AI initiatives more quickly and securely.
Cohesity DSPM, powered by Cyera, is available now. Cohesity says it is active in more than 140 countries and is used by 70 percent of Global 500 companies. With a valuation of $9 billion and more than $1.7 billion in funding from Accel, Blackstone, Sequoia, and others, Cyera is one of the most capital-rich players in the AI data security market.
Dr. Jakob Jung is Editor-in-Chief of Security Storage and Channel Germany. He has been working in IT journalism for more than 20 years. His career includes Computer Reseller News, Heise Resale, Informationweek, Techtarget (storage and data center) and ChannelBiz. He also freelances for numerous IT publications, including Computerwoche, Channelpartner, IT-Business, Storage-Insider and ZDnet. His main topics are channel, storage, security, data center, ERP and CRM.
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