Varonis and Cohesity: Improving Cyber Resilience with Data Security

Backup datasets often contain sensitive information — from PII to intellectual property — and a wide range of business-critical data. Without visibility into their backups, security teams are left with a blind spot that increases the blast radius and impedes cyber recovery.

Together, Varonis and Cohesity close that gap, pairing deep insight into backup data with stronger security and faster recovery.

Varonis integrates with Cohesity to combine proactive data security with cyber resilience, surfacing what’s inside backup data, automating remediation, detecting threats, and enabling secure recovery.

How Varonis and Cohesity reduce risk and strengthen resilience 

Varonis and Cohesity address the gap between data security and cyber resilience, from discovery through recovery. Each layer builds on the last:

Discover and classify sensitive data

Varonis automatically discovers and classifies sensitive and regulated data across Cohesity Data Cloud, helping organizations identify risk, reduce data exposure, strengthen cyber resilience, and accelerate recovery efforts. Continuous visibility into sensitive data supports compliance, retention requirements, and AI readiness.

Lock down access and shrink the blast radius

Overexposed data is a breach waiting to happen. Varonis maps your entire permissions structure, providing visibility into where data resides, who has access to it, and who's using it. From there, you can enforce least privilege: managing access at a granular level and safely automating permission changes, while shrinking the blast radius with minimal effort.

Detect and stop threats in real time

Varonis builds baseline behavioral profiles for users and non-human identities, then continuously monitors for the activity that signals an attack, including suspicious data access, lateral movement, and privilege escalation. When something looks wrong, Varonis can alert your team and leverage automated responses to prevent data from being affected, like shutting down user sessions and changing passwords, with no wait for manual triage.

And for organizations that want 24x7 coverage, Varonis Managed Data Detection and Response (MDDR) provides expert-led monitoring, investigation, and response to help stop threats before they impact critical data.

Contain ransomware and recover fast

If ransomware reaches your data, the two platforms work together to contain and recover. Varonis flags the abnormal file activity that signals encryption and triggers an automated response to lock it down. Cohesity hardens the data itself with AES-256 encryption, multifactor authentication, DataLock for WORM and FIPS-compliant encryption.

And because Cohesity keeps unlimited, fully hydrated snapshots, you can mass-restore files, VMs and application objects almost instantly, cutting recovery time from days to minutes.

Optimize cost

Varonis Data Lifecyle Management continuously identifies redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data, helping organizations safely archive or dispose of data that no longer provides business value. By shrinking the amount of data stored and protected in Cohesity, customers can improve storage efficiency, reduce infrastructure costs, and maintain a cleaner, more manageable data estate while preserving compliance and security requirements.

Complete visibility, protection, and recovery

Security teams work faster when the picture is unified. By continuously identifying sensitive, stale, and overexposed data, Varonis helps organizations reduce cyber risk before an incident occurs and provides the context needed to prioritize recovery efforts when one does.

Cohesity gives you a single UI and enterprise search across silos, VMs, backups, data centers, remote sites, and multiple clouds. Varonis layers on the context that makes that data defensible: classification, automated remediation, threat detection, and ROT reduction.

Together, Varonis and Cohesity deliver a unified approach to data security and cyber resilience, helping organizations protect sensitive data throughout its lifecycle.