Cohesity granted US patent for AI data security platform

AI-powered data security company Cohesity has been granted a US patent for the technology behind its Gaia generative AI platform for enterprise data.

The patent covers Cohesity’s ability to allow enterprises’ secondary data to be securely searchable and usable as a governed knowledge source for generative AI applications. It specifically covers Cohesity’s method of combining secondary data systems with a retrieval-augmented generation semantic layer.

According to one of the patent’s inventors, Cohesity CTO and VP for APJ Gregory Statton, this approach eliminates the need to replicate sensitive data within separate AI environments. It also allows for the preservation of existing governance, compliance, security and access controls protecting sensitive data and reduces the risk of its exposure, he said.

“The patent behind Gaia represents a fundamental shift in how enterprises think about the data they already hold. For years, organisations have sat on vast reserves of rich, governed, but largely untapped secondary data,” he said. “My thinking, when working with the team during the creation, was to change all that. By enabling AI-driven insights directly from backup data, without moving or duplicating it, we've built something genuinely unique: a patented RAG architecture that keeps data in place — maintaining all of the security and process management advantages of that while unlocking its full value.”

With the grant of the patent, Cohesity has become the first data protection company to patent a generative AI platform for enterprise data.

Cohesity CEO and President Sanjay Poonen said protected recovery data is immensely valuable to an organisation.

“It is an organisation’s most important, complete and trusted repository of enterprise information and institutional knowledge — yet it remains among the most underutilised,” he said. “This patent reflects years of foundational engineering work to change that with a security-first architecture for enterprise AI. Cohesity Gaia applies AI directly to that data, without forcing organisations to move or duplicate sensitive information, unlocking insights while maintaining the governance, access controls and cyber resilience they depend on. No other platform delivers these advantages today.”

Gaia is available as part of the Cohesity Data Cloud platform.

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