Cohesity, the leader in AI and data security, today introduced Cohesity Agent Resilience. This new Cohesity Data Cloud capability will discover, protect, and recover the infrastructure behind enterprise AI agents. The company also outlined its vision for Autonomous Cyber Resilience, which uses agentic workflows to automate its five-step cyber resilience framework: protect data, identity, applications, and agents; help ensure recoverability in all scenarios; remediate cyber and AI threats; practice application recovery; and optimize data and AI risk posture. Cohesity also introduced the Cohesity AI Resilience Academy, beginning with a free course that helps organizations manage risk as AI systems move from advising people to taking action.
Cohesity introduces Agent Resilience to protect and recover AI agent infrastructure
Available now to select customers; general availability targeted for end of 2026
Supports Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Bedrock Agents
Microsoft and Google agent platforms on the roadmap
Outlines vision for Autonomous Cyber Resilience using agentic workflows
Introduces free AI Resilience Academy course
Across the enterprise, AI agents are querying databases, updating workflows, and using privileged credentials, often without a person reviewing each action. Gartner predicts up to 40% of enterprise applications will include integrated task-specific agents by 2026, up from less than 5% today. Governance and observability tools can identify unexpected behavior, but they cannot restore data or systems after an agent has changed, corrupted, or deleted them. Cohesity Agent Resilience is designed to address that recovery gap.
New research findings from the fifth annual Cohesity Global Cyber Resilience Report further underscore the need to strengthen AI infrastructure resilience. Fifty-six percent of organizations said they were not well prepared to detect or contain unintended actions by AI agents and automated workflows. At the same time, 58% were not very confident in their ability to verify the integrity of AI models and related data following a cyberattack.
"Detection can tell you an AI agent went off course. It cannot undo the changes," said Vasu Murthy, Chief Product Officer, Cohesity. "Cohesity Agent Resilience provides a precise recovery path for both the agents and the resources they impact. Our vision for Autonomous Cyber Resilience is to use agentic workflows to reduce manual work from response and recovery."
An AI agent's behavior depends on several components, including agent memory, configuration, credentials, guardrails, and workflows. At launch, Cohesity Agent Resilience protects agent memory and configuration using the same snapshot architecture, immutable backups, and clean-room recovery that Cohesity customers already rely on to protect sensitive workloads and data across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments.
Cohesity Agent Resilience includes two core functions:
Protect agent state: Protect agent memory and configuration with point-in-time recovery capabilities that help teams restore agents to a known-good state following memory corruption, misconfiguration, or malicious activity.
Protect what agents manage: Protect databases, file systems, and other services agents interact with, enabling precise recovery of affected resources when needed.
Agent topology provides teams with a unified view of each agent, including its memory stores, connected applications, databases, and supporting infrastructure. That makes it easier to understand agent dependencies, assess protection coverage, and identify the resources required to restore trusted operations during incidents.
"As AI agents take on more business-critical work, we need to think beyond monitoring and make sure we can recover when something goes wrong," said Srikanth Kuntamukkala, CIS Global Lead for Partner Sales, Cognizant. "Being able to restore an agent's state, and the data it may have changed, could give our teams a more practical way to manage that risk as we move agentic applications into production."
At launch, Agent Resilience integrates with Amazon Bedrock. Support for additional agent platforms, including offerings from Microsoft and Google, is on the roadmap. Cohesity Agent Resilience is available now to select customers, with general availability targeted for the end of the year.
Cohesity also outlined how agentic workflows could help operationalize its five-step cyber resilience framework. The aim is to move beyond manually configured, point-in-time plans toward a system that continuously discovers and protects data, validates recovery readiness, and adapts response and recovery plans as conditions change, with a human in the loop. As attackers increasingly use AI to move from initial compromise to operational disruption, resilience plans that rely on manual triage and sequential approvals may not keep pace.
In this model, teams would define objectives through Cohesity Copilot rather than manually configuring policies across applications. During a cyber incident, administrators can initiate automated response and recovery workflows to assess the scope of impact, identify indicators of attacker activity, and prepare an isolated recovery environment to accelerate investigation and recovery efforts.
As a step toward that model, Cohesity introduced enhancements to existing capabilities. Customers with Cohesity Data Cloud Enterprise Edition and Cohesity DSPM can now automate the protection of newly discovered sensitive data that is not already protected. Cohesity continuously discovers and classifies sensitive data, evaluates its protection status, and can trigger protection actions based on policy.
The Cohesity AI Resilience Academy is a new learning path within Cohesity Academy. Its first course, Foundations of AI Resilience with Cohesity, starts with a simple distinction: AI assistants make recommendations; AI agents can make changes. The free, self-paced course takes 25 to 30 minutes and focuses on concepts and vocabulary rather than product configuration. Those who complete the course will earn a Credly badge titled "Foundations of AI Resilience with Cohesity," which they can share on LinkedIn.
About Cohesity
Cohesity protects, secures, and provides insights into the world's data. As the leader in AI and data security, Cohesity helps organizations strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and reduce IT costs. With Zero Trust security and advanced AI/ML, Cohesity Data Cloud is trusted by customers in more than 140 countries, including two-thirds of the Global 500. Cohesity is also backed by industry leaders such as NVIDIA, Amazon, Google, IBM, Cisco, and HPE.
