Cyber Resilience: How is Cohesity reinventing data protection?

With the rise in cyberattacks, ransomware now targeting backup infrastructures, and stricter regulatory requirements, organizations must strengthen their ability to protect their data, but above all, they must ensure they have the resources to restore it quickly.

In this context, Cohesity, a solution implemented in Luxembourg by Anidris x Easi, effectively helps companies strengthen their resilience.

“Today, data protection is no longer just about keeping a backup copy. The challenge is to ensure that data remains recoverable, even after a cyberattack or any other incident, such as an internal hack,” notes Aymeric Carraro, Head of Service at Anidris x Easi.

For a long time, backup solutions were primarily designed to address everyday incidents: accidental file deletion, human error, or hardware failure. While these uses remain relevant today, they no longer fully address the reality of the risks faced by IT departments and IT security managers in Luxembourg.

Many stakeholders can attest to this: ransomware attacks now directly target backup environments to prevent any business recovery. At the same time, regulations such as NIS2 and DORA require critical organizations to demonstrate their ability to ensure business continuity. Backup is thus becoming a strategic component of cybersecurity.
 

“A backup is only valuable if it can be restored quickly and reliably when the business needs it,” emphasizes Aymeric Carraro. “Our customers are increasingly facing challenges related to these issues. To support them in this area, Anidris x Easi’s experts specializing in infrastructure solutions rely on the Cohesity solution to set up environments that address the resilience challenges faced by businesses in Luxembourg.”

In this regard, Cohesity has structured an approach around five complementary pillars of cyber resilience.

• The first step is to identify and protect the company’s critical data, regardless of its environment: data center, cloud, SaaS applications, or hybrid infrastructures.
• Next comes securing backups using immutability mechanisms that prevent an attacker from modifying or deleting them. This approach ensures data integrity even when a system is compromised.
• The platform also leverages advanced anomaly detection capabilities to quickly identify suspicious activity that may indicate an ongoing attack.
• It also involves providing teams with investigation tools that allow them to analyze detected events, assess their impact, and identify the affected data before initiating recovery operations.
• Finally, the ultimate goal remains the rapid restoration of data and applications to minimize business disruptions and the operational consequences of an incident.

“Cohesity stands out by offering a unified platform capable of centralizing the protection of physical, virtual, cloud, and SaaS environments within a single console,” explains Aymeric Carraro. This comprehensive approach simplifies administration, backup policy management, and reporting, while providing greater visibility into the company’s entire data estate.”

One of the solution’s key strengths is that it provides a centralized view of data protection and orchestrates all operations from a single platform.

While technology is a key driver for building resilience, its implementation remains crucial to ensuring its effectiveness.

As a specialist in IT infrastructure and data protection solutions, Anidris x Easi supports organizations from needs analysis through to the implementation of solutions tailored to the needs of IT departments, including defining the target architecture, integrating the Cohesity platform, and migrating existing environments…

“We have been working alongside numerous Luxembourg-based organizations for many years, strengthening their expertise in infrastructure management and resilience. With this in mind, we start by assessing their challenges and constraints, particularly regulatory and technical ones, to define the most appropriate solutions,” explains Aymeric Carraro. “From providing infrastructure to performing backups, including the deployment of environments that enable them to restore their data, we position ourselves as trusted, long-term partners.”

Beyond deployment, the team ensures that recovery procedures are regularly validated, an essential requirement for guaranteeing the true resilience of the information system.

More than just a backup solution, Cohesity has established itself as a cyber-resilience platform. Combined with the expertise of Anidris x Easi, it enables organizations to transform their data protection strategy into a true driver of business continuity, capable of addressing both cyber threats and new regulatory requirements.