Cohesity has expanded its AI-powered data security portfolio through a strengthened partnership with HCLTech, introducing a managed clean room capability within the HCLTech VaultNXT platform. The move is designed to help enterprises accelerate cyber recovery, improve regulatory compliance, and strengthen resilience against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.
The new capability integrates Cohesity Clean Room technology and AI-powered data security features into HCLTech’s consulting-led cyber resilience framework, providing organizations with a secure, isolated environment for forensic investigation, malware containment, validation, and trusted recovery following cyber incidents.
As ransomware attacks and regulatory requirements continue to rise, organizations are increasingly shifting their focus from simple data restoration to comprehensive cyber recovery strategies that ensure business continuity and compliance. The enhanced VaultNXT offering addresses these demands through policy-driven cyber vaulting, immutable recovery copies, governed access controls, and audit-ready processes aligned with regulations such as DORA and NIS2.
Managed Clean Rooms Bring Greater Recovery Assurance
A key feature of the expanded solution is the managed clean room environment, which enables organizations to safely analyze compromised systems, verify data integrity, and recover critical workloads without exposing production environments to further risk.
“Cyber resilience today requires more than backup and recovery. Organizations need secure environments to investigate, validate, and restore trusted data while maintaining compliance and business continuity.”
– Johnny Karam, Managing Director & Vice President, International Emerging Markets, Cohesity
According to Kit Beall, Chief Revenue Officer at Cohesity, cyber recovery strategies must evolve beyond basic backup restoration.
“Cyber recovery strategies need to go beyond restoring data to include investigation, validation, and trusted recovery. Cohesity and HCLTech are bringing together market-leading managed clean room services and AI-powered data security to help customers recover trusted data faster, support compliance requirements, reduce risk, and operate with greater confidence.”
The integrated approach combines automated recovery workflows, strong security controls, and governed processes, enabling enterprises to reduce downtime and restore operations more efficiently after a cyber incident.
Analytics-Driven Cyber Recovery Gains Momentum
From a cybersecurity and analytics perspective, the announcement reflects an industry-wide shift toward measurable cyber resilience. Organizations increasingly require visibility into the recovery process, including validation of clean data, incident analysis, recovery timelines, and regulatory reporting.
By incorporating AI-powered insights into recovery operations, enterprises can improve threat detection, accelerate decision-making, and gain greater confidence that recovered data and applications are free from compromise before returning systems to production.
The solution also supports enterprise governance initiatives by creating documented, repeatable recovery procedures that can be audited and tested as part of broader business continuity and risk management programs.
Supporting Compliance and Operational Continuity
The partnership is particularly relevant for highly regulated industries where operational disruptions can carry significant financial and compliance consequences. With regulations such as DORA in Europe and NIS2 requiring stronger cybersecurity and resilience frameworks, organizations are looking for solutions that integrate security, compliance, and recovery into a unified model.
Rampal Singh, Senior Vice President, Hybrid Cloud Business Unit at HCLTech, emphasized that the collaboration transforms data protection into a strategic security asset.
“By combining HCLTech’s global scale and cyber resilience expertise with Cohesity’s AI-powered data security and recovery, we help customers reduce downtime, stay compliant and operational, and respond faster to evolving cyber threats.”
AI Security Becomes a Boardroom Priority
As AI adoption accelerates globally, enterprises face new risks related to data integrity, operational continuity, and threat sophistication. The Cohesity-HCLTech collaboration highlights how organizations are moving toward proactive cyber resilience strategies that combine AI-powered security, secure recovery environments, compliance frameworks, and managed services.
With businesses increasingly recognizing that recovery readiness is as important as prevention, the enhanced VaultNXT platform positions Cohesity and HCLTech to help enterprises build a more resilient, compliant, and secure digital future in the age of AI-driven cyber threats.
