Case Study: Citizen Potawatomi Nation achieves ransomware-protected, rapid data recovery and heritage protection with Cohesity FortKnox and DataProtect

Citizen Potawatomi Nation protects its data—and heritage with Cohesity FortKnox and AWS

Citizen Potawatomi Nation (CPN) is a federally recognized tribe that delivers government services, runs tribal enterprises, and preserves cultural history and language for ~38,000 members. Facing rising ransomware threats and relying on a single onsite backup, CPN wanted to adopt the CISA-recommended 3-2-1 strategy to ensure faster, more reliable restores and to protect irreplaceable cultural data.

CPN deployed Cohesity DataProtect on HPE for local backups and Cohesity FortKnox on AWS for an immutable offsite vault, eliminating proxy complexity and costly offsite storage. The two-location, ransomware-hardened approach made restores minutes instead of days, saved IT time, met compliance goals, qualified the tribe for cybersecurity insurance, and ensured tribal business and cultural data remain protected and recoverable.

Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Christopher Abel

CIO/IT Director