What city departments and services does Cohesity protect for Detroit?

Cohesity protects data for all major city departments including water, fire, transportation, municipal parking, finance, HR, property taxes, political departments, city council, and the mayor's office. Essentially every department in the city has their data secured by Cohesity in some capacity.

How did Cohesity help Detroit meet cybersecurity insurance requirements?

Cohesity's built-in security features including encryption, immutability, multi-location replication, and proven recovery capabilities provided the definitive proof insurers require. The comprehensive data protection and ransomware resilience made it significantly easier for Detroit to qualify for cybersecurity insurance.

City of Detroit's Data Protection Strategy with Cohesity

Name: City of Detroit's Data Protection Strategy with Cohesity
Uploaded: 2026-05-26T19:56:52-04:00
Duration: 3 min 6 s
Description: For the City of Detroit, protecting data goes beyond technology – it's about supporting the essential services people rely on every day. Hear why the City of Detroit trusts Cohesity to protect data across departments, strengthen resilience against ran...

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05/26/2026

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City of Detroit uses Cohesity to protect data across all municipal departments including water, fire, transportation, finance, and political offices, supporting essential services that citizens rely on daily.
The city achieved a 40% reduction in backup management time, freeing IT staff to focus on other productive initiatives while maintaining enterprise-grade protection for critical systems.
Detroit selected Cohesity for its proactive security features including encryption, erasure coding, immutability, and ransomware protection, which simplified cybersecurity insurance qualification and strengthened overall resilience.

Summary

The City of Detroit's IT infrastructure team manages data protection for all municipal departments, from water and fire services to finance and transportation. This customer story highlights how Detroit selected Cohesity as their enterprise backup solution to protect critical city services that directly impact residents' daily lives. The city's IT leadership emphasizes that their technology decisions are driven by the need to serve citizens and taxpayers, making data security and system availability paramount. Detroit's implementation of Cohesity addresses multiple strategic priorities: ransomware protection, operational efficiency, and the ability to use backups as a source of truth during outages. The partnership with HPE, a historical technology partner for the city, influenced the selection process to ensure compatibility across their infrastructure stack. The deployment has delivered measurable operational improvements, including a 40% reduction in backup management time, allowing IT staff to focus on other productive initiatives. Detroit's approach demonstrates how public sector organizations are adopting enterprise-grade data protection to meet both cybersecurity insurance requirements and the high-stakes reality of supporting essential municipal services.

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0:00 - Detroit's IT Mission
0:39 - Proactive vs Reactive Protection
1:21 - HPE Partnership Integration
1:38 - Operational Efficiency Gains
2:25 - High-Stakes Reliability Requirements

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0:29 "... pretty much every department in some way, shape or form is having their data secured by Cohesity."
0:39 "I would say what makes Cohesity different from other solutions is that Cohesity is proactive instead of reactive."
1:45 "We've been able to drastically reduce, I'd say roughly about 40% of the amount of time, and that is something that we can make productive."
2:52 "It's NICE to know that when the going gets tough, I truly do trust and believe that Cohesity would be right there with us."

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