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Cisco Transforms Crisis to Control with New Automated Ransomware
Recovery

Cisco, the leader in enterprise networking often before it moves laterally through the enterprises around the world strengthen
and security, is dramatically enhancing network to reach high-value assets. "Cisco their cyber resilience,” said Sanjay Poonen,
its Extended Detection and Response is quickly disrupting the security landscape CEO and President, Cohesity. “Our first-of-
(XDR) solution. By adding recovery to the across their entire portfolio and their its-kind proactive response is a key piece of
response process, Cisco XDR is redefining XDR solution could become the de facto our data security and management vision,
what customers should expect from reference architecture organizations turn and we’re excited to bring these capabilities
security products. This announcement to,” said Chris Konrad, Area Vice President, to market first with Cisco.” Cohesity has
brings near real-time recovery for business Global Cyber, World Wide Technology. a proven track record of innovation in
operations after a ransomware attack. “Not only does it provide broad visibility by data backup and recovery capabilities.
Cisco continues to drive momentum integrating data across endpoints, network, Cohesity’s products provide configurable
towards its vision of the Cisco Security cloud, and other sources - this extensive recovery points and mass recovery for
Cloud—a unified, AI-driven, cross-domain attack surface insight allows for superior systems assigned to a protection plan. The
security platform. With the launch of Cisco threat detection using advanced analytics. new features take this core functionality
XDR at the RSA Conference this year, Cisco Organizations should strongly consider the to the next level by preserving potentially
delivered deep telemetry and unmatched implementation of Cisco XDR to bolster infected virtual machines for future
visibility across the network and endpoints. their security posture and safeguard forensic investigation, while simultaneously
Now, by reducing the crucial time between assets effectively. Cisco undoubtedly is protecting data and workloads in the rest
the beginnings of a ransomware outbreak contributing to the overall resilience of of the environment. Cohesity’s engineers
and capturing a snapshot of business- any organization.” Cisco is expanding its worked alongside Cisco technical teams
critical information to near-zero, Cisco initially released, extensive set of third- to dynamically adapt data protection
XDR will further support that vision, party XDR integrations to include leading policies to offer organizations a stronger
while enabling new levels of business infrastructure and enterprise data backup security posture. This complements
continuity. “The exponential growth of and recovery vendors. Today, Cisco is Cisco XDR’s robust detection, correlation,
ransomware and cyber extortion has made excited to announce the first integration and integrated response capabilities and
a platform approach crucial to effectively of this kind with Cohesity’s DataProtect will enable customers to benefit from
counter adversaries. Our objective is to and DataHawk solutions. “Cybersecurity accelerated response for data protection
build a resilient and open cybersecurity is a board-level concern, and every CIO and automated recovery. Cisco XDR is
platform that can withstand ransomware and CISO is under pressure to reduce now available globally to simplify security
assaults and recover with minimal risks posed by threat actors. To this end, operations in today’s hybrid, multi-vendor,
impact, ensuring uninterrupted business Cisco and Cohesity have partnered to help multi-threat landscape.
operations,” said Jeetu Patel, Executive
Vice President and General Manager of
Security and Collaboration at Cisco. “As a
global infrastructure provider that built the
network, Cisco is redefining what a security
product should deliver. Our innovations
with automated ransomware recovery
are a significant step towards achieving
truly unified detection and response data,
turning security insights into action.” During
the second quarter of 2023, the Cisco Talos
Incident Response (IR) team responded
to the highest number of ransomware
engagements in more than a year. With
the new capabilities in Cisco XDR, Security
Operations Center (SOC) teams will be
able to automatically detect, snapshot, and
restore the business-critical data at the
very first signs of a ransomware attack,

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