Cohesity Zero Downtime

Your AI agents have the keys. Do you know which doors they’re opening?

Hijacked AI sessions. Data lifted from business tools. Knowledge bases poisoned to steer AI decisions long after the attack ends. AI security and data resilience just collided, and we’re here for it.

Shelly Calhoun-Jones, Technical Marketing Director at Cohesity, sits down with Praneeta Paradkar, Security Leader, AI & Data Security, to talk about what this means for organizations adopting AI fast, often without knowing what their AI can access, do, or reveal.

Come with questions. We’ll bring opinions.

Host: Shelly Calhoun-Jones, Technical Marketing Director, Cohesity

Guest: Praneeta Paradkar, Security Leader, AI & Data Security

Your data isn't just stored. It's governed. Wherever it lives, local laws come with it, and that's rewriting the rulebook for how global companies manage risk. In this episode, we break down data sovereignty in plain terms. What it actually means. Why it's exploding as a conversation as regulations multiply region by region. And how organizations are rethinking data residency, cross-border transfers, and control as part of a real resilience strategy. We get into the tension between running a global business and staying inside local data laws. What happens when two regulations contradict each other. And how security and compliance leaders are building strategies that hold up no matter where their data sits.

Featuring:

Jed Wallace, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Cohesity

Bob West, Data and AI Security Officer, Cyera

Cyber risk doesn't stop at your firewall anymore. It's tangled up in treaties, trade, and geopolitics whether we like it or not.

In this episode, Joye Purser sits down with Edna Conway (former C-level exec at Microsoft and Cisco, current board member and international cyber policy voice) live from RSAC. They get into why "agent" might be the wrong word for the AI systems flooding our environments, how CISOs can finally talk risk in a language the board actually understands, and the UN treaty most security teams have never heard of that could force companies to hand over their own technology.

Edna breaks down the real story behind the Cybercrime Convention (70 nations signed on) and the ICT Security Treaty quietly taking shape behind it. She also makes the case for why security can't afford to operate in silos anymore. Procurement, legal, ops, and security all need to be at the same table, building one holistic view instead of a dozen disconnected ones.

What we cover:

• Why "non-human identity" governance matters more than the AI buzzword itself
• How to score and communicate agent risk in dollars, not colors
• The UN Cybercrime Convention and the new ICT treaty on the horizon
• Why 70 nations signing on should be a wake up call for every ICT provider
• Building resilience by embedding security into the processes you already have
• Why breaking down silos between security, legal, procurement, and ops is the real unlock

Cyber resilience is a team sport and it's a geopolitical one too.

Every unfilled cybersecurity role is an open door. Understaffed teams are easier targets. Gaps in GRC, threat detection, and incident response don't stay quiet. They turn into headlines.

In this episode of Zero Downtime our own Theresa Miller is sitting down with Deidre Diamond, Founder & CEO of CyberSN and Founder of Secure Diversity to talk hiring, retention, and what's actually working when threats keep evolving but headcount doesn't.

Hiring properly isn't overhead. It's defense.

A retail breach exposed a gap most security teams never see coming. Here’s what happened, and how to close it. Security is everyone’s responsibility. In this conversation, Simone Petrella breaks down a high-profile retail breach and the organizational gap that made it worse. She shares what CISOs can actually do about it.

In this episode:

- A real breach case study from the retail sector

- Two best practices for running better security exercises

- The one thing a CISO should never say

- Why security can’t live in one department alone

Host: Joye Purser, Global Field CISO, Cohesity

Guest: Simone Petrella, Founder & Principal, CleoPetra Strategies

Data doesn't manage itself. And when it slips through the cracks, that's when risk creeps in and resilience takes a hit.

In this episode of Zero Downtime, we sit down with Don Easton, Cybersecurity Professor, and Shelly Calhoun-Jones, CISSP CCSK, Technical Marketing Director at Cohesity, to talk about what happens when data management falls behind. We dig into why overlooked data is a liability, how it slows you down when you need to respond fast, and what it actually takes to build a stronger, more resilient data lifecycle.

If you're ready to take control of your data instead of letting it control you, this one's for you.

🎙️ Featuring:

Don Easton, Cybersecurity Professor, Lane Community College

Shelly Calhoun-Jones, CISSP CCSK, Technical Marketing Director, Cohesity

Databases run your business. Are you backing them up like it?

Ransomware doesn't care how critical your database is. It'll hit anyway. In this episode, we're getting into what it actually takes to protect complex, distributed database deployments without slowing teams down.

Theresa Miller (Cohesity) and Dan Coombes (MongoDB) break down how the Cohesity and MongoDB partnership delivers consistent backups, fast point-in-time recovery, and centralized management for enterprises running mission-critical workloads. We talk through the real gap between database agility and enterprise-grade security, and what it takes to close it.

If your recovery goals are strict and your tolerance for downtime is zero, this one's for you.

Featuring:

Theresa Miller, Senior Director, Technical Marketing at Cohesity

Dan Coombes, Senior Product Manager at MongoDB

YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/live/thQ9V98snL8

In this episode of Zero Downtime, Joye Purser sits down with Kristen Beneduce, former Deputy CISO at Nextdoor and incident response lead at Sandia National Labs, to talk about what it actually takes to secure AI systems before they become a liability. Kristen brings a rare perspective, having worked both inside a national lab with a deeply embedded security culture and in the private sector where security still has to fight for its seat at the table. She breaks down why AI agents need to be treated like users, complete with access controls, monitoring, and accountability, and why the organizations getting this right are building faster, not slower.

They cover:

• Why security controls make businesses more efficient, not less
• How to build tighter linkages between security and engineering teams
• What good AI incident response actually looks like Why "being prepared for anything" is the only real strategy.
• If your organization is adopting AI and hasn't had this conversation yet, start here.

YouTube URL: https://youtube.com/live/60WnpwncqC8

Cyber resilience extends beyond preventing attacks; it requires maintaining control even if defenses are compromised. Learn how effective data management strengthens security, addresses gaps in traditional controls, and why knowing what you have, where it lives, and how it’s used is essential for resilience.

YouTube Link: https://youtube.com/live/x1YnuNDL5zM

Integrity and trust go far beyond legal compliance. Tune in to hear Erin Joe, former FBI Special Agent and legal expert discuss how Security Teams should view data security – and resilience – as a matter of professional integrity.

YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/live/T5axQD7cP2E?si=Z4cZrgVzcn11SY_S