The RSA Conference (RSAC), the premier cybersecurity industry event, returns to San Francisco’s Moscone Center April 28-May 1, 2025, bringing together thousands of security professionals, vendors, and thought leaders from across the globe. This annual gathering serves as the definitive forum for the latest cybersecurity innovations, trends, and best practices, featuring hundreds of educational sessions, keynotes from industry luminaries, and an expansive expo floor showcasing cutting-edge security solutions. For organizations navigating today’s complex threat landscape, RSAC provides unparalleled networking opportunities, hands-on training, and essential insights to help bolster defense strategies against evolving cyber threats.
As organizations face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, the focus has shifted from prevention alone to ensuring rapid, confident recovery after incidents. Ahead of RSA Conference 2025, Vasu Murthy, Chief Product Officer at Cohesity, shares with VMblog, how the company is enabling enterprises to strengthen their cyber resilience through AI-powered data security solutions.
With over 13,600 customers worldwide�including 85% of Fortune 100 companies�Cohesity’s platform helps organizations protect critical data, accelerate recovery times, and uncover valuable business insights. At booth #S-543, attendees can experience the company’s latest innovations, including RecoveryAgent, an AI-powered cyber orchestration solution designed to simplify recovery planning and execution in today’s complex threat landscape.
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VMblog: Give VMblog readers a quick overview of your company and its core mission in the cybersecurity space.
Vasu Murthy: Our mission at Cohesity is simple: to protect, secure, and provide insights into the world’s data. We’re the leader in AI-powered data security, and our solutions secure and protect data on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including over 85 of the Fortune 100, and nearly 70% of the Global 500, rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data.
VMblog: Where can attendees find you at RSA 2025? What’s your booth number, and what kind of experience can visitors expect when they stop by?
Murthy: Attendees can find Cohesity at booth #S-543 in the expo hall. Attendees can drop by the booth to rate their resilience, see interactive product demos, and learn how they can safeguard their critical business data and win the war against modern cyberattacks.
VMblog: What is your message to RSA attendees coming out to the show this year?
Murthy: Winning the war against modern cyberattacks requires a comprehensive approach-one that stresses preparedness and effective investigation to ensure thorough remediation and prevent reinfection. With Cohesity, organizations improve readiness, strengthen investigations with resilient data security, and achieve a secure recovery.
VMblog: What were your key learnings from 2024’s security landscape, and how have those insights shaped your solutions for 2025?
Murthy: One of our biggest takeaways from our customers in 2024 was that incident response is still a massive pain point. Companies are well aware how much even a few seconds of downtime costs. At the same time, recovering quickly and with confidence is a complicated process. That’s why we made introducing RecoveryAgent such a priority following the completion of our business combination. RecoveryAgent is an AI-powered cyber orchestration solution for Cohesity NetBackup and DataProtect that makes it easier for customers to plan their cyber recovery process, test it thoroughly and frequently, and recover confidently from incidents. RecoveryAgent also offers first-class support for integrating malware scans in the clean room, and intelligently distinguishes between rehearsals and full recoveries with tailored configurations.
VMblog: With AI being a major focus in cybersecurity, how is your company leveraging or addressing AI both as an opportunity and a potential threat vector?
Murthy: Cohesity is an AI-powered data security company, so AI and ML capabilities are fundamental to our platform, helping customers not only secure their data and recover quickly from incidents, but also discover new insights about their business. Just ahead of this year’s conference, we released RecoveryAgent, a new AI-powered cyber orchestration solution for Cohesity NetBackup and DataProtect customers. RecoveryAgent’s new agentic AI capabilities make it even easier for customers to recover with confidence from cyber incidents. We’re committed to continuing to offer our customers AI-powered innovations that increase their cyber resilience so they can win the war against modern, AI-powered cyberattacks.
VMblog: What specific market challenges or pain points is your company addressing at RSA 2025? How have these evolved from previous years?
Murthy: At RSA 2025, we’re focused on helping customers recover from cyber incidents with greater speed and confidence. As threats become more sophisticated, organizations need more than prevention-they need resilient, reliable recovery. We’re introducing RecoveryAgent, our new cyber orchestration tool, expanding access to our Clean Room incident response environment, and growing our network of data security alliances. Customer needs have shifted from simply stopping threats to ensuring they can recover quickly and maintain business continuity. Our platform continues to evolve to meet those needs and help customers persevere through disruption.
VMblog: Can you share any exclusive previews or announcements that attendees can expect to see at your booth this year?
Murthy: Attendees at the show can stop by our booth for interactive demos of our entire platform. While there, they can hear more about unique offerings in our platform like our new AI-powered cyber orchestration solution, RecoveryAgent, our Cohesity Clean Room solution, Cyber Event Response Team service, and comprehensive Data Security Alliance.
VMblog: What sets your solution apart in today’s crowded cybersecurity marketplace? Why should RSA attendees prioritize visiting your booth?
Murthy: Companies are facing more frequent and sophisticated cyber threats as attackers use AI to bolster their efforts. It’s an uphill battle to protect critical data, and their business can’t afford downtime associated with cyber incidents. Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500 rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data. Attendees should stop by to learn more about why those customers put so much trust in Cohesity and how we can help make their business more cyber resilient.
VMblog: What role does zero trust play in your security strategy and solutions? How are you helping organizations implement zero trust effectively?
Murthy: Cohesity was built from the ground up using zero trust principles, and we continue to align with and enhance the principles of zero trust security as we introduce new innovations to our customers.
VMblog: With the rise in sophisticated ransomware attacks, how does your solution help organizations better prepare and respond?
Murthy: One of the most effective ways to blunt the impact of sophisticated ransomware attacks is to have a well-tested, effective, and comprehensive recovery plan in place. Our platform was purpose-built to help customers recover quickly and comprehensively from cyber incidents, and we’ve only enhanced its capabilities throughout the year with features like our Clean Room and RecoveryAgent solutions.
VMblog: Are you participating in any speaking sessions or panel discussions at RSA 2025? Can you tell us more about these presentations?
Murthy: Cohesity is participating in a number of sessions at RSA this year, including:
- Shining a Light on Better Response and Recovery (session ID: BCIP-4322) at the Moscone South Briefing Center – this is a conversation with Cohesity Field CISO Joye Purser and Paul Zimmerman, the Director of Technology at the Blaine County School District, a Cohesity customer
- Secure Recovery: The Truth About Ransomware Resilience (session ID: BCOD-4323), an online session with Cohesity Field CISO James Blake
VMblog: What exciting demos or interactive experiences can attendees expect at your booth?
Murthy: Attendees can stop by our booth for an interactive demo of our entire platform. They can also take part in our Rate Your Resilience survey, which gives attendees an assessment of their data protection strategy based on a short series of questions.
VMblog: How is your company addressing the challenges of securing hybrid and multi-cloud environments?
Murthy: Cohesity is designed for multicloud strategies. The Cohesity data platform offers native integration with public clouds, allowing you to leverage their scalability and pay-as-you-go model for various use cases while maintaining control of your data. For instance, with Cohesity Helios, you can deploy a Cohesity cluster in the public cloud to protect cloud-native applications and enable replication from on-premises for a hybrid cloud setup, or you can subscribe to Cohesity Data Management as a Service (SaaS) offerings to oversee your data.
Since the primary reason for adopting a multicloud strategy is choice, Cohesity provides the ultimate data management platform for flexibility. It features the widest range of options regarding deployment-across multiple clouds, hybrid cloud, on-premises, and SaaS-and includes a managed or pay-as-you-grow consumption model.
VMblog: What’s your perspective on the most critical cybersecurity trends that will shape the industry in 2025-2026?
Murthy: Just a few months into 2025, we believe our 2025 predictions will hold true, especially around increased scrutiny of software supply chain vulnerabilities and increasing global regulations. We also predict that global uncertainty and an evolving US global cyber defense posture will cause companies to more heavily invest in their cyber resiliency.
VMblog: How does your solution help organizations address regulatory compliance and emerging privacy requirements?
Murthy: Understanding your data, where it resides, and your regulatory obligations regarding that data is the starting point of any risk management strategy. Cohesity’s data classification capability allows organizations to locate and classify their unstructured data as a part of their data and cyber risk management strategies, helping deliver operational resilience regardless of how an operational disruption manifests itself.
For example, Cohesity’s classification capability supports NIS 2’s requirement for Asset Management by allowing an organization to classify the impact of the data involved in the incident. This is especially valuable if a cyber incident impacts the original systems and allows appropriate reporting to both the regulator and data subjects.
Cohesity’s comprehensive data indexing and classification help to ensure adherence to DORA and GDPR as well. Having the ability to locate and classify data correctly delivers operational resilience regardless of how a disruption manifests itself. This also enables organizations to quickly identify and report the details of a cyber event to authorities where information may have been compromised, stolen, or deleted.
VMblog: How can security leaders better prepare their organizations for the evolving threat landscape in 2025 and beyond?
Murthy: Security leaders must adopt a resilience-first mindset that emphasizes prevention, rapid response, and recovery. Legacy detection tools are no longer sufficient. Organizations should invest in AI-driven, unified platforms to enhance visibility and reduce response times.
Backup data is an untapped resource and a powerful tool for threat hunting and incident response, strengthening an organization’s overall security posture. By tapping into the wealth of historical information contained in backup systems, companies can gain deeper insights into potential threats, enhance their incident response capabilities, and build a more resilient cybersecurity practice.
Finally, no organization can go it alone. Security leaders need to work with vendors who prioritize strategic partnerships to create true integrated security architectures to enhance threat response and operational resilience significantly.
VMblog: What success stories or case studies will you be highlighting at RSA 2025?
Murthy: Paul Zimmerman, the Director of Technology at the Blaine County School District, will be joining us for an in-person discussion of response and recovery practices. As a Cohesity customer, he’ll be sharing his thoughts on advancements in data security that will help you meet the security threats of today and tomorrow so you can have better results when it’s time to recover.
VMblog: Is your company involved in any parties or gatherings that a show attendee can participate in?
Murthy: Jazz Up Your Data Security – April 30 from 7:30 – 10:30 pm PT at the Dawn Club at 10 Annie Street
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