The Cyber Resilience Imperative in the Agentic Era
Cohesity Catalyst opens with CEO Sanjay Poonen framing the central challenge: AI agents now operate at machine speed, and when they go rogue, the consequences propagate just as fast. Poonen introduces Cohesity's five-step cyber resilience framework — protecting all workloads starting with identity, building an air-gapped cyber vault, performing threat scanning and anomaly detection, practicing agentic application resilience, and discovering data through AI Security Posture Management. He positions Cohesity as the last line of defense for recovery and remediation, built on a zero-trust, immutable platform capable of handling petabyte-scale enterprise, banking, and critical infrastructure workloads. Poonen also introduces the concept of a Minimum Viable Company — a triage model that categorizes applications by recovery time objective, from one hour for identity systems to a month or more for non-critical workloads. He highlights Cohesity's strategic partnerships with Anthropic (Project Glasswing), OpenAI (Project Daybreak), Google Gemini, NVIDIA, and Microsoft, positioning the company as uniquely embedded in the inner circle of frontier AI labs and hyperscalers.
Machine-Speed Threats and the Agentic Attack Surface
Jason Clinton, Deputy CISO at Anthropic, joins Sanjay Poonen to discuss the escalating threat landscape. Clinton describes a 'vulnerability tsunami' driven by advanced AI cyber models — including open-weights models accessible to any attacker — that enable fully autonomous offensive operations. He argues this represents a phase change in the industry, requiring defenders to fundamentally rethink their security programs. The conversation covers Project Glasswing, Anthropic's defensive cybersecurity initiative, and how Cohesity is participating in it. Clinton emphasizes that the speed and scale of AI-driven attacks demand a different mindset than traditional threat response, where defenders previously had more time to react. The session establishes the dual-use nature of frontier AI models as both a threat vector and a defensive tool, underscoring why Cohesity's recovery-focused approach is positioned as essential alongside detection and prevention partners like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto.
Agent Resilience, AWS Partnership, and Shared Responsibility
A session with Matt Wood, Chief AI and Technology Officer at AWS, explores how enterprises can move fast with AI agents without sacrificing security. Wood argues that governance and guardrails are not obstacles to speed but enablers of it — organizations that build robust controls around their models can actually accelerate deployment. He describes AWS's zero-operator-access inference environment, where end-to-end encryption and hardware-verified code execution ensure that even AWS itself cannot inspect customer prompts or agent workloads by default. Cohesity announces Cohesity Agent Resilience, a new capability launching first on Amazon Bedrock, designed to back up, restore, and roll back agent infrastructure and associated data when agents go rogue or need to be destroyed. Wood frames business-critical AI agents as requiring the same resiliency treatment as databases or ERP systems, reinforcing the shared responsibility model as it extends into the agentic layer.
Global Perspectives, Customer Stories, and Closing Program
The summit features a broad roster of enterprise and public sector voices, including Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel's RE-AI digital infrastructure division, and speakers from CVS Health and Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. Brett Goldstein, Emmy Award-winning actor and writer known for Ted Lasso and Shrinking, joins Cohesity CMO Carol Carpenter for a conversation on creativity, resilience, and navigating failure — themes that parallel the summit's core message of building organizations that can absorb setbacks and recover. The closing segment directs attendees to additional product sessions covering NetBackup's road forward and Cohesity Gaia for putting backup data to work for AI, as well as guided demos of Cohesity Fort Knox SaaS, end-to-end vaulting and recovery, digital jump bag construction, and Cohesity Recovery Agent for automated failover. Cohesity also announces a free AI Resilience Academy course for all attendees, reinforcing its commitment to raising the industry bar on resilience education.
