Laugh in the face of ransomware with Cohesity’s Pegasus 6.1.1 version of its DataPlatform software. The SAP Hana-certified software allows for the immediate restores of Hana data in case of malware attacks. The Pegasus version also adds additional tools to help thwart attacks.
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“Cohesity’s offering provides both data and application protection, but goes beyond backup and recovery to enable access to those large data sets via secondary storage,” (analyst Steven) Hill said. “The easier we make data available, the more potential value we can extract from it.”
Cohesity added three features to help with ransomware protection. DataLock allows trusted administrators to lock down backup snapshots to prevent them from being modified or deleted. Cohesity backup also introduced multi-factor authentication and anomaly detection that warns customers of signs of an attack, such as data changes or ingest rates that don’t match historical trends.
Cohesity claims these features help proactively block ransomware from causing changes. The Cohesity backup platform can also detect compromised files, inform users and restore to a clean state when an attack occurs.
“The spread of malware is mostly based on social engineering, and there’s no real way to educate every user on all the possible ways they could get infected,” Hill said. “Cohesity’s model looks to detect and intervene when the malicious behavior starts, combined with a backup strategy that insures there’s always a safe copy to fall back on.”
