Cohesity

Prove your Cohesity backups are clean

Cohesity protects the backup. Elastio proves what is inside. Deep File Inspection detects zero-day ransomware, slow encryption, and threats that DataHawk and anomaly detection were not built to see. Also covers Veritas NetBackup environments.

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Your backups are protected. Are they clean?

Cohesity stores deduplicated snapshots, enforces retention policies, and runs DataHawk threat intelligence. These are strong controls. None of them inspect the content of a file for threats that have no known signature or intelligence match.

If ransomware encrypted files before the snapshot was taken, Cohesity faithfully preserves a protected copy of compromised data. The backup did its job. The threat is inside.

The question is not whether your backups are protected. It is whether they are clean.

What Cohesity delivers

Cohesity is a strong data management and backup platform with integrated threat intelligence capabilities.

DataProtect with global deduplication

Policy-driven backup and recovery with efficient storage utilization across on-premise and cloud targets.

DataHawk threat intelligence

Integrates threat intelligence feeds and anomaly detection to flag suspicious changes in backup data patterns.

Anomaly detection and alerting

Monitors backup metadata for statistical deviations in file counts, change rates, and entropy scores that may indicate encryption activity.

Policy-based automation

Automated backup scheduling, retention, and tiering across hybrid environments with centralized management.

The gap in the stack

DataHawk and anomaly detection monitor for statistical deviations. Modern ransomware is designed to evade them.

HighLowNoneDetection confidenceBackup windows over timeDataHawk and anomaly detection work hereKnown threat intelligence and statistical deviationsAnomaly detection thresholdInvisible to CohesityZero-dayNo known signatureSlow encryptionSpreads across windowsPre-encrypted filesAlready high-entropyPartial encryptionSub-threshold volumeElastio Deep File Inspection: inspects every file regardless of threshold

What Elastio adds to Cohesity

Elastio closes the gap between backup protection and backup verification.

Deep File Inspection

Inspects inside the file content. Not metadata. Not entropy. The actual data. Every file in every recovery point.

Zero-day ransomware detection

Ensemble of detection models trained on 2,300+ ransomware families and 10,000+ variants. 99.995% precision. Catches threats that have no known signature or threat intelligence match.

Slow encryption detection

Identifies intermittent and partial encryption that accumulates below anomaly thresholds across backup windows. The attack pattern DataHawk structurally cannot see.

R-RPO measurement

Continuous recovery readiness. The CISO knows the actual recovery posture at any point in time, not the timestamp of the last successful backup job.

Provable Recovery

Every inspected recovery point produces enumerated evidence of what was checked, what was found, and what is clean. Recovery you can prove, not recovery you assume.

One inspects. One infers.

What you get

Elastio delivers three measurable outcomes across your Cohesity environment.

Also supported

Elastio supports Veritas NetBackup (now Cohesity)

Cohesity acquired Veritas data protection in 2024, bringing NetBackup into the Cohesity portfolio. Organizations running NetBackup are now part of the Cohesity ecosystem.

Elastio performs Deep File Inspection across NetBackup recovery points with the same coverage as Cohesity DataProtect: zero-day ransomware detection, slow encryption detection, R-RPO measurement, and Provable Recovery. If your environment runs NetBackup, whether on-premise, in the cloud, or migrating to Cohesity DataProtect, Elastio covers it.

One integration. Both platforms. No gap in coverage during or after migration.

Side by side

CapabilityCohesity aloneCohesity + Elastio
Backup protection and deduplicationFullFull
Anomaly detection and DataHawk intelligenceFullFull+ Deep File Inspection
Deep File InspectionNo coverageFull
Zero-day ransomware detectionNo coverageFull
Slow encryption detectionNo coverageFull
R-RPO measurementNo coverageFull
Recovery point verification with proofNo coverageFull
File-level threat classificationNo coverageFull

How Cohesity + Elastio work together

01

Cohesity protects

Cohesity DataProtect creates snapshots, enforces retention, and manages recovery across on-premise and cloud workloads. Nothing changes.

02

Elastio connects

Elastio connects to Cohesity DataProtect snapshots at the storage layer. No agents. No data movement. No changes to Cohesity policies.

03

Elastio hunts

Deep File Inspection runs against Cohesity backup data. Identifies ransomware, malware, and threats that anomaly detection and DataHawk cannot see, including zero-day variants and slow encryption.

04

Elastio proves

Verified Data and R-RPO are delivered to the security operations team. Clean recovery points identified with evidence. Compromised points flagged with classification detail.

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Frequently asked questions

Everything a CISO, CTO, or security architect needs to evaluate Elastio alongside Cohesity.

See what your backups are hiding

Elastio runs real attack simulations against your Cohesity backup data, including slow encryption, zero-day variants, and partial encryption, to show what DataHawk misses. Most assessments complete within days. Your data. Your environment. Real results.

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