Cohesity develops headless data security architecture

AI-powered data security company Cohesity has unveiled Maestro, a solution aimed at helping enterprises embed data protection and recovery operations within their existing AI platforms.

The solution is designed to provide a headless architecture for cyber resilience, in which key Cohesity actions, telemetry signals and data assets can be driven through agents, without the need for an interface.

Cohesity says that Maestro has been built on the open MCP standard and can integrate natively within popular enterprise AI platforms including Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, without the need for custom integrations or proprietary connectors. The platform is open by design to provide customers with greater flexibility and choice over the components that make up their AI stack.

Maestro will provide users with native access to Cohesity platform capabilities such as data protection, restore, status, reporting and threat hunting, as well as telemetry and threat signals. Other core capabilities include the semantically enriched search solution Cohesity Gaia and a range of Cohesity AI agents for conversational reporting, recovery group and blueprint orchestration. The Cohesity Maestro MCP interface and additional agents are expected to be available later this year.

Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen said the company’s customers are already running Claude, Gemini, GPT and other popular AI agents on their platforms.

“Cohesity Maestro gives those platforms direct access to our data protection capabilities. No new console. No workflow changes. Just the power of Cohesity, wherever their AI already lives,” he said. “This is what headless data protection looks like, and Cohesity is the first in our industry to deliver it.”

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