Cohesity ADFR powered by Semperis

Cohesity partners with Semperis to provide identity resilience solution. Semperis Active Directory Forest Recovery (ADFR), ensures fast and malware-free recovery of Active Directory, making it ideal for situations like ransomware attacks, cyber incidents, or other disasters. This solution ensures clean, authoritative restoration of Active Directory, prevents malware reinfection, preserves directory integrity, and offers support for cloud-based storage.

By combining forest recovery capabilities with Cohesity’s data protection, orchestration, and recovery workflows, this solution delivers a unified and streamlined experience by reducing tool switching and aligning identity recovery with existing Helios operations. It reduces recovery time and improves operational confidence as part of an organization’s overall cyber resilience strategy.

The ADFR interface is displayed within Helios, while all recovery workflows and controls continue to be managed through ADFR.

Why Cohesity and Semperis Integration

Active Directory is a tier 0 asset, often the primary target in ransomware attacks and cyber incidents. If Active Directory is compromised, organizations need to restore it rapidly and reliably to recover access to their applications, systems, and data.

Active Directory Forest Recovery (ADFR) powered by Semperis enables rapid, malware‑free recovery of Active Directory environments, while Cohesity provides resilient storage, orchestration, and recovery workflows to support enterprise‑scale operations.

Together, this solution helps reduce recovery time, prevent reinfection, and improve operational readiness by aligning identity recovery with broader data protection and security operations within Cohesity Helios. Users can assess recovery readiness and access AD forest recovery capabilities from Cohesity Helios dashboard, providing a unified experience, faster response during cyber incidents and directory outages.

Benefits

This section lists the benefits of Cohesity ADFR powered by Semperis:

Rapid Active Directory Recovery: Restore Active Directory environments quickly after ransomware attacks, cyber incidents, or accidental damage, helping minimize downtime for identity‑dependent applications and services.
Clean, Malware‑Free Restores: Recover Active Directory to a trusted, known‑good state using recovery processes that are decoupled from the operating system, reducing the risk of malware reinfection and preserving directory integrity during recovery operations.
Unified Operational Experience: Access Active Directory recovery capabilities and view recovery readiness from Cohesity Helios, alongside existing data protection and security operations.
Improved Recovery Readiness Visibility: Assess Active Directory recovery readiness as part of Cohesity’s broader security and operational dashboards, helping identify gaps before an incident occurs.
Recovery in Isolated or Disconnected Environments: Restore Active Directory environments even when internet connectivity is unavailable, supporting recovery in restricted or compromised network conditions.
Identity‑Specific Threat Detection: Identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) and indicators of exposure (IOEs) specific to identity systems, helping assess the security state of Active Directory during recovery operations.
Resilient and Scalable Storage Support: Leverage Cohesity’s secure and resilient storage capabilities to protect Active Directory recovery data and support enterprise‑scale recovery scenarios.

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