How does Cohesity protect customer data when using AI for vulnerability discovery?

Customer data never leaves the customer's environment. Cohesity works with major enterprise customers, particularly banks and public sector organizations, to ensure security protocols are validated without exposing sensitive data. The company uses AI-assisted techniques and partnerships with providers like Anthropic and OpenAI for vulnerability analysis while maintaining strict data isolation.

What makes Cohesity's security approach different in the age of AI-accelerated threats?

Cohesity was built with security-by-design principles for the cloud era, incorporating machine learning and AI techniques before generative AI became mainstream. The company employs continuous automated testing, ongoing penetration testing, and access to non-publicly available AI systems for vulnerability analysis. When vulnerabilities are found, Cohesity rapidly assesses severity, prioritizes based on real risk, and develops validated fixes faster than traditional approaches.

AI-Driven Vulnerability Discovery & Security Response

Name: AI-Driven Vulnerability Discovery & Security Response
Uploaded: 2026-05-12T20:28:02-04:00
Duration: 2 min 58 s
Description: AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery. Now, attackers and defenders can find weaknesses in software faster than ever before. Our CEO & President Sanjay Poonen outlines how we are ready for this and how our AI & data security portfolio is secure by...

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AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery for both attackers and defenders, and Cohesity has built its platform with security-by-design principles to address this evolving threat landscape.
Cohesity employs continuous automated testing, penetration testing, and AI-assisted vulnerability analysis in partnership with Anthropic and OpenAI, with dedicated teams working alongside Fortune 500 customers.
Over 70% of Global 500 companies trust Cohesity, with major banks and enterprises collaborating on security protocols while ensuring customer data never leaves their environments.

Summary

Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen addresses how artificial intelligence is transforming vulnerability discovery for both attackers and defenders in cybersecurity. He emphasizes that Cohesity's platform was built with security-by-design principles for the cloud era, incorporating machine learning and AI techniques before the recent generative AI boom. The company employs continuous automated testing, ongoing penetration testing, and AI-assisted vulnerability analysis using non-publicly available AI systems in partnership with major AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI. Poonen highlights that over 70% of the Global 500 companies are Cohesity customers, with major banks, public sector organizations, and telecommunications companies actively collaborating on security protocols. He reassures customers that their data never leaves their environment and that Cohesity's rapid vulnerability assessment and remediation processes are designed to stay ahead of emerging threats. The message centers on Cohesity's commitment to resilience as a trusted partner throughout the entire lifecycle of potential cyber events.

Chapters

0:00 - AI as Vulnerability Discovery Tool
0:23 - NIST Framework & Assumed Breach
1:05 - Secure by Design Architecture
2:03 - Rapid Vulnerability Response Process

Key Quotes

0:00 "AI is now becoming an incredible vulnerability discovery tool, and this is going to be an opportunity for defenders like us, but also for attackers."
0:42 "In our 13,000 customers, we have over 70% of the global 500. These are the biggest banks, and some of these banks are named banks that are working with us to ensure that their code is, you know, sort of protected."
1:05 "We have been built to be secure by design. We were built for a cloud and security era, and many of the machine learning and AI techniques were built into the kind of capabilities even before Genevieve AI was actually sort of come to bear in the last three years."

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