Lock down your data: Essential cybersecurity tips

It's #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth, and we're here to help you tackle today’s toughest security challenges. From improving your organization’s security posture to assessing your readiness for a ransomware attack, we’ve got the resources to keep your business protected.

6 ways to improve your organization’s security posture

With cyber threats lurking around every corner, now is the perfect time to strengthen your security posture. Our latest blog outlines six essential strategies that can help your business stay ahead of cybercriminals. From automating backups to prioritizing risk-based approaches, these tips will help you defend against attacks and ensure you can recover quickly if disaster strikes:

• Focus on a risk-based approach to identify key vulnerabilities
• Automate and test backups regularly to safeguard critical data
• Use cloud backups for fast, scalable recovery
• Build a strong incident response plan to minimize downtime

Don’t let cyber threats catch you off guard!

Is your organization truly ready for a ransomware attack?

A recent ESG study revealed some alarming stats: 65% of IT leaders ranked ransomware as one of the top threats to their organization, yet only 1 in 7 organizations were able to recover all their data after an attack. That’s a scary thought!

Want to know how prepared you are? Now’s the perfect time to assess your readiness. Taking our ransomware readiness assessment will give you a clear picture of where your organization stands, highlight potential risks, and offer actionable steps to improve your defenses.

Take the assessment now and make sure you’re ready to bounce back stronger than ever!

Delivering simplicity and resilience in the enterprise data center

IT leaders must constantly balance two critical tracks: accelerating innovation and mitigating risk. As applications sprawl across diverse environments and data-intensive workloads grow, the complexity of managing and deploying the underlying infrastructure also rises, hindering IT agility. Compounding this challenge is the need to defend against evolving cybersecurity threats and the risk of IT outages. Join us LIVE HERE ON LINKEDIN, October 10 at 10am PT and discover how 思科 , Nutanix , and Cohesity are working together to help customers:

• Accelerate the delivery of applications and services.
• Simplify the management, security, and resilience of data in hyper-distributed environments.
• Improve business outcomes using AI, hyperconverged infrastructure, and modern data security and management.

SPEAKERS:

Jeremy Foster , SVP and General Manager, Cisco Compute

Thomas Cornely , SVP, Product Management Nutanix

Raj Dutt , VP, Head of Marketing, Cohesity

Upcoming Webinars and Events

October 15: EFM Idaho CIO/CISO – Executive Exchange

October 22: Ransomware Resilience Workshop: Pittsburgh

October 23: Ransomware Resilience Workshop: Dallas, TX

October 22: it-sa 2024 Germany

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Why Cohesity? As a leader in AI-powered data security and management, we make it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. We help organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.