Data management provider Cohesity Inc. today announced an expansion to its Data Security Alliance ecosystem with the addition of leading data security posture management vendors to identify and locate previously unknown data repositories and mitigate associated security and privacy risks.

Cohesity launched the Data Security Alliance in November. The initial members of the alliance included a long list of security firms: BigID Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., CyberArk Software Ltd., Okta Inc., Palo Alto Networks Inc., Securonix Inc., Splunk Inc. and Tenable Inc. Google LLC’s Mandiant and PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. are also participants through a security advisory relationship. The DSPM providers joining the alliance today include Cyera Inc., Dig Security Inc., Normalyze Inc., Sentra Inc. and Securiti Inc.

The alliance was founded to address the issue wherein copies of data are often shared between clouds without oversight by the information technology department or security operations center, resulting in the growth of shadow data that puts data security, cyber recovery and compliance at risk.

The alliance brings together “the boldest solutions and the brightest minds” in security to provide customers with a comprehensive approach that integrates data protection and resilience into an end-to-end security strategy. The strategy starts with prevention, extends to early detection and protection and also includes rapid recovery — critical in the event of a cyberattack.

The new members of the DSA bring additional DSPM capabilities to the alliance, giving customers a deep understanding of where their sensitive data is, who has access to it, how it’s being used and where it’s stored. Partners in the alliance can leverage the Cohesity Data Cloud to help joint customers advance their security posture. 

Cohesity’s data security and management technology, coupled with the benefits of DSPM, will deliver instant discovery of all data workloads, both sanctioned and unsanctioned, while also providing assessments of which data workloads have sensitive data that are often targeted by bad actors.

“As organizations rapidly move to the public cloud, their data risk and exposure increases in lockstep,” noted Elad Horn, group vice president of product at Cohesity. “We look forward to continuing our partnership with leading DSPM vendors to help our joint customers rapidly identify and protect their most sensitive and business-critical data.”

Cohesity was previously in the news in May when it expanded its partnership with Google Cloud and unveiled Cohesity Turing, a set of artificial intelligence technologies that bring AI capabilities to data security and management.

Amith Nair, senior vice president and general manager of cloud at Cohesity, spoke with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.’s livestreaming studio, in January about how the current ransomware threat landscape has moved beyond just securing infrastructures from the edge through firewalls and other networking layers.

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