TOKYO, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Digital travel platform Agoda CEO Omri Morgenshtern and Hoshino Resorts CEO Yoshiharu Hoshino recently convened at HOSHINOYA Tokyo, sharing insights on the successful first months of their partnership. The leaders highlighted the strong relationship formed through Agoda’s serious commitment to feedback from Hoshino, fostering a collaboration grounded in continuous improvement and innovation.

The collaboration has seen both companies working closely to enhance their offerings and improve customer experiences. Agoda and Hoshino Resorts began their partnership in November last year with a focus on addressing challenges in room bookings and customer satisfaction. Agoda’s robust engineering teams in Bangkok, India, and Singapore played a crucial role in resolving initial issues, leading to a swift improvement in service quality. This proactive approach laid the foundation for a strong partnership built on trust and mutual respect.

Omri Morgenshtern, CEO of Agoda, emphasized the importance of feedback in their collaboration. “When we received feedback from Hoshino-san, we knew we needed to make changes quickly. Our engineering team set targets and made decisive improvements, proving that we don’t just talk about change—we make it happen. This approach has been the basis of our relationship with Hoshino Resorts, and we’re excited about the win-win situations this partnership brings,” Morgenshtern shared.

During the conversation, Yoshiharu Hoshino, CEO of Hoshino Resorts, echoed these sentiments, noting the benefits of working with Agoda. He highlighted that Agoda’s commitment to understanding local cultures and adapting their services has been instrumental in the partnership. He also emphasized that Agoda’s ability to move quickly and implement changes has made a significant impact on their operations, and expressed his enthusiasm to continuing the fruitful collaboration.

The partnership between Agoda and Hoshino Resorts exemplifies how taking actionable feedback seriously can lead to successful collaborations. Agoda now has the widest selection of Hoshino’s iconic properties available on its global platform, including the recent addition of new properties: HOSHINOYA Bali, HOSHINOYA Nara Prison, Hoshino Resorts KAI Matsumoto, Hoshino Resorts KAI Miyajima, and Hoshino Resorts KAI Zao. Notably, HOSHINOYA Bali is the first Hoshino property outside Japan to be available on Agoda, opening new doors for international travelers. 

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Kakao Pay and Kakao Bank sign an MoU with global infrastructure leader Fireblocks to lay the groundwork for a digital asset ecosystem in KoreaThe companies will jointly explore Korean market opportunities in digital assets, including stablecoinsThe initiative aims to assess solutions suited to local regulatory, security, and service requirements

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kakao Pay and Kakao Bank have signed a memorandum of understanding with Fireblocks to explore secure digital asset infrastructure in Korea.

The agreement is intended to help establish secure onchain infrastructure for Korea’s emerging digital asset market and strengthen its early ecosystem. This initiative leverages Kakao’s nationwide reach, expertise across fintech and banking, and core blockchain technology. The companies expect their collaboration with Fireblocks—which has deployed digital asset infrastructure for over 2,500 global institutions including more than 100 banks—to accelerate that effort.

Under the agreement, the three companies will jointly explore business opportunities based on Korea’s market conditions and infrastructure demand. With a focus on stablecoins, they will explore digital asset distribution frameworks suited to Korea’s regulatory, security, and service requirements. They also plan to conduct proof-of-concept (PoC) tests to assess the applicability of these frameworks, as part of a shared effort to build the digital asset ecosystem.

“For banks and payment platforms in Korea, leveraging reliable digital asset infrastructure that is engineered to meet institutional requirements from day one is critically important,” said Michael Shaulov, CEO and Co-Founder of Fireblocks. “This is the prerequisite for widespread adoption, and Kakao Pay and Kakao Bank are setting the groundwork now.”

“We are pleased to collaborate with Fireblocks, the global leader in digital asset infrastructure,” said Yun Ho-young, CEO of Kakao Bank and Co-Head of Kakao Group’s Stablecoin Task Force. “By combining our technology and expertise, we will develop secure and accessible digital asset services that expand our customers’ financial opportunities.”

“The success of Korea’s emerging digital asset market depends on the reliable flow of digital asset distribution,” said Shin Won-keun, CEO of Kakao Pay and Co-Head of Kakao Group’s Stablecoin Task Force. “Our strategic alliance with Fireblocks, a leading global infrastructure provider, lays an important foundation for that.”

About Fireblocks

Fireblocks is the world’s most trusted digital asset infrastructure company, empowering global institutions to build, manage and grow their business on the blockchain. With the industry’s most scalable and secure platform, we streamline stablecoin payments, settlement, custody, tokenization, trading, accounting operations, and compliance reporting – enabling everything from institutional finance to consumer-facing digital experiences across the largest ecosystem of banks, payment providers, stablecoin issuers, exchanges and custodians. Thousands of organizations – including Worldpay, BNY, Galaxy, and Revolut – trust Fireblocks to secure $16 trillion in digital asset transactions across 200+ blockchains. Learn more at fireblocks.com 

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Cohesity Agent Resilience launches with support for Amazon Bedrock; Microsoft and Google platforms are on the roadmap. Cohesity also outlines a path to automate cyber resilience in Cohesity Data Cloud and offers Catalyst attendees early access to a free AI Resilience Academy course.

SINGAPORE, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cohesity, the leader in AI and data security, today introduced Cohesity Agent Resilience. This new Cohesity Data Cloud capability will discover, protect, and recover the infrastructure behind enterprise AI agents. The company also outlined its vision for Autonomous Cyber Resilience, which uses agentic workflows to automate its five-step cyber resilience framework: protect data, identity, applications, and agents; help ensure recoverability in all scenarios; remediate cyber and AI threats; practice application recovery; and optimize data and AI risk posture. Cohesity also introduced the Cohesity AI Resilience Academy, beginning with a free course that helps organizations manage risk as AI systems move from advising people to taking action. Cohesity announced the new capability, vision, and academy today at Cohesity Catalyst.

Key Highlights

Cohesity Agent Resilience: available now to select customers; general availability targeted for the end of 2026Supported Services: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Bedrock Agents, with Microsoft and Google agent platforms on the roadmapAutonomous Cyber Resilience: a Cohesity vision to automate its five-step cyber resilience framework using agentic workflowsAI Resilience Academy: Catalyst attendees will get early access to the free, self-paced Foundations of AI Resilience with Cohesity course immediately after the event

Across the enterprise, AI agents are querying databases, updating workflows, and using privileged credentials, often without a person reviewing each action. Gartner® predicts “up to 40% of enterprise applications will include integrated task-specific agents by 2026, up from less than 5% today.1 Governance and observability tools can identify unexpected behavior, but they cannot restore data or systems after an agent has changed, corrupted, or deleted them. Cohesity Agent Resilience is designed to address that recovery gap.

New research findings from the fifth annual Cohesity Global Cyber Resilience Report further underscore the need to strengthen AI infrastructure resilience. Fifty-six percent of organizations said they were not well prepared to detect or contain unintended actions by AI agents and automated workflows. At the same time, 58% were not very confident in their ability to verify the integrity of AI models and related data following a cyberattack.

“Detection can tell you an AI agent went off course. It cannot undo the changes,” said Vasu Murthy, Chief Product Officer, Cohesity. “Cohesity Agent Resilience provides a precise recovery path for both the agents and the resources they impact. Our vision for Autonomous Cyber Resilience is to use agentic workflows to reduce manual work from response and recovery.”

Cohesity Agent Resilience Protects the Infrastructure Behind AI Agents

An AI agent’s behavior depends on several components, including agent memory, configuration, credentials, guardrails, and workflows. At launch, Cohesity Agent Resilience protects agent memory and configuration using the same snapshot architecture, immutable backups, and clean-room recovery that Cohesity customers already rely on to protect sensitive workloads and data across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments.

Cohesity Agent Resilience includes two core functions:

Protect agent state: Protect agent memory and configuration with point-in-time recovery capabilities that help teams restore agents to a known-good state following memory corruption, misconfiguration, or malicious activity.Protect what agents manage: Protect databases, file systems, and other services agents interact with, enabling precise recovery of affected resources when needed.

Agent topology provides teams with a unified view of each agent, including its memory stores, connected applications, databases, and supporting infrastructure. That makes it easier to understand agent dependencies, assess protection coverage, and identify the resources required to restore trusted operations during incidents.

“As AI agents take on more business-critical work, we need to think beyond monitoring and make sure we can recover when something goes wrong,” said Srikanth Kuntamukkala, CIS Global Lead for Partner Sales, Cognizant. “Being able to restore an agent’s state, and the data it may have changed, could give our teams a more practical way to manage that risk as we move agentic applications into production.”

At launch, Agent Resilience integrates with Amazon Bedrock. Support for additional agent platforms, including offerings from Microsoft and Google, is on the roadmap.

Cohesity Agent Resilience is available now to select customers, with general availability targeted for the end of the year.

A Path Toward Autonomous Cyber Resilience

Cohesity also outlined how agentic workflows could help operationalize its five-step cyber resilience framework. The aim is to move beyond manually configured, point-in-time plans toward a system that continuously discovers and protects data, validates recovery readiness, and adapts response and recovery plans as conditions change, with a human in the loop. As attackers increasingly use AI to move from initial compromise to operational disruption, resilience plans that rely on manual triage and sequential approvals may not keep pace.

From Stated Objectives to Automated Execution

In this model, teams would define objectives through Cohesity Copilot rather than manually configuring policies across applications. For example, administrators would be able to specify that all applications and data required to sustain critical business operations during a cyber incident must meet specified recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) and adhere to specified threat scanning and recovery testing requirements. Cohesity Data Cloud would then assess the resilience posture of those workloads, recommend appropriate protection policies, threat-scanning strategies, and recovery-rehearsal plans, and present those recommendations for approval before execution. 

During a cyber incident, administrators can initiate automated response and recovery workflows to assess the scope of impact, identify indicators of attacker activity, and prepare an isolated recovery environment to accelerate investigation and recovery efforts.

Now Generally Available: Automated Protection for Newly Discovered Sensitive Data

As a step toward that model, Cohesity introduced enhancements to existing capabilities. Customers with Cohesity Data Cloud Enterprise Edition and Cohesity DSPM can now automate the protection of newly discovered sensitive data that is not already protected. Cohesity continuously discovers and classifies sensitive data, evaluates its protection status, and can trigger protection actions based on policy. Administrators can configure and manage these workflows directly or through Cohesity Copilot.

Built on Cohesity RecoveryAgent, Open to Customers’ AI Tools

The Autonomous Cyber Resilience model builds on Cohesity RecoveryAgent, which orchestrates key parts of incident response and recovery and helps security and IT teams work from the same plan. Cohesity Maestro, with expanded capabilities expected later in 2026, will connect Cohesity’s protection, response, and recovery capabilities to customers’ preferred AI tools, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, as well as Cohesity Helios, the company’s unified management console.

Cohesity plans to add more automation as the Autonomous Cyber Resilience vision moves toward commercial availability.

“Cyber resilience is not a one-time assessment. It requires teams to protect data, test recovery, detect threats, rehearse responses, and continually improve their risk posture,” said Murthy. “Agentic workflows can take on more of that routine work and help keep the plan current.”

Cohesity Launches AI Resilience Academy

The Cohesity AI Resilience Academy is a new learning path within Cohesity Academy. Its first course, Foundations of AI Resilience with Cohesity, starts with a simple distinction: AI assistants make recommendations; AI agents can make changes. The free, self-paced course takes 25 to 30 minutes and focuses on concepts and vocabulary rather than product configuration.

After completing the course, learners will be able to:

Define an AI agent and distinguish it from an AI assistant.Explain the additional risks introduced when AI moves from advising to acting.Identify two gaps in the AI lifecycle, one before an agent acts and one after.Describe, at a high level, how Cohesity Gaia Catalog addresses the upstream gap.Describe, at a high level, how Cohesity Agent Resilience addresses the downstream gap.

Cohesity Gaia Catalog and Agent Resilience are included to illustrate Cohesity’s broader architecture and product direction. Some capabilities discussed or shown may not yet be generally available.

Catalyst attendees will receive a direct enrollment link in the post-event follow-up and can begin the course immediately. The course will remain exclusive to attendees for approximately two weeks before appearing in the broader Cohesity Academy catalog.

Those who complete the course will earn a Credly badge titled “Foundations of AI Resilience with Cohesity,” which they can share on LinkedIn. The course will remain a free entry point into Cohesity Academy. Cohesity may offer more advanced AI Resilience courses for a fee over time.

Product Availability

Cohesity Agent Resilience is now available to select customers. Customers can contact their Cohesity account team for details. Automated protection for newly discovered sensitive data is now available to customers with Cohesity Data Cloud Enterprise Edition and Cohesity DSPM.

Additional Resources

Cohesity Global Cyber Resilience Report (fifth annual, with Vanson Bourne)Learn more about Cohesity Agent ResilienceLearn more about Cohesity’s vision for Autonomous Cyber ResilienceLearn more about the Cohesity AI Resilience Academy

1Gartner, “Gartner Predicts 40% of Enterprise Apps Will Feature Task-Specific AI Agents by 2026, Up from Less Than 5% in 2025,” press release, August 26, 2025. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-08-26-gartner-predicts-40-percent-of-enterprise-apps-will-feature-task-specific-ai-agents-by-2026-up-from-less-than-5-percent-in-2025

About Cohesity

Cohesity protects, secures, and provides insights into the world’s data. As the leader in AI and data security, Cohesity helps organizations strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and reduce IT costs. With Zero Trust security and advanced AI/ML, Cohesity Data Cloud is trusted by customers in more than 140 countries, including two-thirds of the Global 500. Cohesity is also backed by industry leaders such as NVIDIA, Amazon, Google, IBM, Cisco, and HPE.  

Cohesity is certified as a Great Place to Work in multiple countries. Follow Cohesity on LinkedIn and visit www.cohesity.com to learn more.   

Forward-Looking Statements

Any unreleased services or features referenced in this press release are not currently available and may not be made generally available on time or at all, as may be determined in our sole discretion. Any such referenced services or features do not represent promises to deliver, commitments, or obligations of Cohesity and may not be incorporated into any contract. Customers should make their purchase decisions based upon services and features that are currently generally available.

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