Cohesity unveils AI-driven RecoveryAgent to automate cyber recovery

Cohesity has announced the launch of RecoveryAgent, an AI-powered orchestration solution designed to automate and accelerate cyber recovery processes for organisations using Cohesity NetBackup and DataProtect.

RecoveryAgent aims to support organisations in managing the complexity of modern IT environments, which often include physical, virtual, and cloud-based systems. The solution addresses cyber recovery challenges by generating customisable blueprints to automate recovery workflows in response to incidents, while helping to maintain data integrity, availability, and regulatory compliance.

The interface of RecoveryAgent allows teams to build recovery plans using scripted workflows that integrate key steps for effective incident response, such as threat hunting, malware scanning, and instant restoration of data. The platform enables rehearsed recoveries within non-production environments to verify blueprints, allowing organisations to ensure readiness without disrupting production operations.

RecoveryAgent features Agentic AI capabilities intended to assist recovery teams with rapid creation and modification of recovery blueprints, automated testing of cyber impacts and disaster scenarios, and management of granular recovery across complex hybrid environments, including on-premises infrastructure, cloud deployments, platform-as-a-service, and containers. Automated threat scanning is also included, using both native tools and threat intelligence from Data Security Alliance partners, alongside intelligent recommendations for recovery points and analysis of potentially compromised files.

The solution is designed to provide clarity on recovery times and alignment with business service-level agreements, while also assisting customers in demonstrating compliance with regulatory and business requirements by executing standard recovery practices.

Vasu Murthy, Chief Product Officer at Cohesity, commented on the launch: "Every moment matters to customers experiencing a cyber incident. Having a comprehensive and thoroughly tested incident response plan can be the difference between minimal disruption and massive impact. By simplifying and automating every step of the complex cyber recovery process, RecoveryAgent helps customers boost resilience and respond faster with more confidence to cyber incidents. The world's largest organisations trust Cohesity because we understand the impact of cyber incidents and consistently offer new solutions like RecoveryAgent to help our customers be more confident in their cyber readiness and recovery."

RecoveryAgent integrates automation of typically time-consuming recovery tasks, including vulnerability and malware scanning as well as data classification, into structured blueprints. The solution also automates forensic investigation, system configuration hardening, and patching when conducting recovery on virtual machines within RecoveryAgent. These functions are backed by Cohesity's integration with security vendors in the Data Security Alliance, which aims to improve agility and productivity for security teams.

Additional enhancements to Cohesity's clean room solution are included in RecoveryAgent, which are designed to expedite and streamline activation during recovery exercises.

Stéphane Colin, Chief Technology Officer at AntemetA, commented on their experience: "AntemetA has a complex technology infrastructure, and as a result, we need solutions developed with extensive field experience to enable us to be as effective as possible, especially as we are exposed to increasing amount of cyber risks. This is only possible with trusted partners who take time to understand our unique complexity and work with us to ensure our data can be recovered with confidence and our services guarantee the highest level of resilience, whatever cyber challenges we face. We have a longstanding partnership with Cohesity because it continues to develop solutions like RecoveryAgent, which help us deliver more relevant and effective services. That, in turn, has earned us an equally long-lasting trust from our customers."

Paul Henaghan, Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand at Cohesity, noted the relevance of cyber recovery today: "Cyber incidents are now a matter of "when", not "if" and Australian businesses need fast and tight cyber recovery processes in place. As the first new solution enabled by integrating the technologies from both Cohesity and Veritas, RecoveryAgent, with its agentic AI capabilities, can help recovery teams to automate every step of these complex cyber recovery processes, making it easier for customers to strengthen their cyber resilience and respond more quickly. By enabling faster, more intelligent, and thoroughly tested recovery processes, we're helping our customers to stay ahead and ensure readiness for any real-world cyber incidents."

RecoveryAgent is the initial offering to emerge from the joint development between Cohesity and Veritas following their combination in December 2024. By merging the strengths of NetBackup Recovery Blueprints and Recommended Recovery Points with AI functionalities from DataProtect, RecoveryAgent demonstrates the results of integrating the companies' technology portfolios and an ongoing focus on simplifying customer experiences.

The solution is available to select customers in a technology preview phase and is planned for general availability for NetBackup and DataProtect customers in the second half of 2025.