A poor security posture is often not the result of unwillingness, but of human error. With Security Advisor, Cohesity wants to counter this for storage clusters that customers manage themselves.
Suppliers such as Cohesity are increasingly focusing on data management. We wrote about this several times earlier this year. This involves, among other things, optimally managing your backups and possibly restoring them. Cohesity’s new DMaaS services also do this in the (AWS) cloud. However, security is gaining an increasingly prominent place among the providers of this type of service. Ransomware in particular plays an important role in this. According to a study by Check Point Software, this branch of malware grew by 93 percent in the first half of 2021. It is clear that this deserves some attention.
Cohesity has developed a real architecture around dealing with threats. The goal of this Threat Defense architecture is to provide customers with a relatively simple way to improve their security. Obviously, they do not want to take over the role of security player. However, you can set up your environment as well as possible from the point of view of data management, so that you run as little risk as possible there. This therefore concerns what we now call cyber resilience.
Today, Cohesity announces the new Security Advisor service as part of its Threat Defense architecture. You can best see this as an extra pair of eyes watching and checking whether your environment complies with the best practices that Cohesity has drawn up itself. Incidentally, this specifically concerns the clusters that customers manage themselves. The DMaaS cloud environments are managed by Cohesity. Naturally, the company already applies its own best practices there.
Score and tips
Cohesity Security Advisor works a bit like you are used to from a password manager, for example. You get a certain score from such a tool to indicate the strength of your passwords. That is what Security Advisor basically does for the clusters that you manage yourself. Security Advisor scans your environment and checks things like configurations, but also ACL, audit logs and encryption. These are all things that are crucial in protecting data and therefore for its security. The result of the scan is a score that indicates how the environment is performing against Cohesity’s best practices.
With only a score you are not very much further as an organization. That is why Security Advisor also makes suggestions to improve security. In other words, you will be shown how to better configure the environment. The tool is also intended to provide you with insight and overview. On the one hand, by demonstrating in fairly detail how the security of your environment is. On the other hand, also by making all those insights centrally available. You are not bound by geographical restrictions, as this all happens within the cloud-based dashboard of the Helios platform.
Price and availability
As mentioned above, Security Advisor is part of the Helios platform. It is immediately available to users of that platform, at no extra cost.
