New embedded Google Threat Intelligence and private sandboxing capabilities aim to eliminate undetected malware lurking in historical data.
Cohesity has announced major enhancements to its Cohesity Data Cloud through an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud. The new capabilities embed Google Threat Intelligence and introduce Google Private Scanning directly into the platform, enabling organizations to uncover, analyze, and eliminate hidden malware before it triggers large-scale cyberattacks.
With modern ransomware and stealthy, long-lived threats increasingly bypassing traditional detection tools, organizations face a critical blind spot: undetected malware residing in backup data. Cohesity’s latest features are designed to close this gap by providing native, intelligence-driven analysis within the cyber recovery workflow—without requiring external tools or manual processes.
Vasu Murthy, Chief Product Officer at Cohesity, highlighted the urgency of tackling these concealed risks. “Undetected malware hidden in backup data can both reinfect restored systems and reveal low-and-slow attacks that evade traditional detection,” he said. “By integrating Google Threat Intelligence, including Google Private Scanning, directly into Cohesity Data Cloud, we’re giving customers exceptional visibility into potential threats—without workflow fragmentation or added complexity.”
“Malware hiding in backups is one of the most overlooked risks in cybersecurity.”
— Gregg Petersen, Regional Director, Middle East, Cohesity
The integration allows IT and security teams to access real-time threat indicators, reputation data, and context from Google’s vast intelligence ecosystem, including insights derived from Mandiant’s incident response experience. Suspicious files can now be detonated safely within a private sandbox environment, preserving data confidentiality while exposing malicious behavior before recovery.
Gregg Petersen, Cohesity’s Regional Director for the Middle East, emphasized that the industry has long focused on preventing attacks but not on securing the starting point of recovery. “With Google, we’re shifting detection and analysis into the moment that matters most the start of recovery,” he said.
The enhancements complement Cohesity’s broader cyber resilience roadmap on Google Cloud, including the availability of Cohesity FortKnox, the company’s managed cyber vault solution, now offered on Google Cloud.
Both the embedded Google Threat Intelligence and secure sandbox analysis features are now generally available through Cohesity Data Cloud and can also be accessed via the Google Cloud Marketplace.
