VeeamON Resiliency Summit: Veeam Unveils Security Capabilities and Malware Detection Part of Data Platform 23H2 Update

During the global VeeamON Resiliency Summit, Veeam Software, Inc. announced its Data Platform 23H2 update, including its Backup & Replication v12.1 release.

Built on the principles of data security, data recovery and data freedom, the Data Platform 23H2 update includes advanced data security, malware detection, automated recovery, and hybrid cloud capabilities to keep businesses running even in the face of increasing ransomware and cyberattacks.

“Cybercriminals are getting smarter and are specifically targeting backups,” said Danny Allan, CTO. “The Veeam 2023 Ransomware Trends report shows that 93% of ransomware attacks target backups – with 75% of those attacks being at least partially successful. Threat actors are targeting backups because organizations are more likely to pay the ransom if hackers are successful in deleting or encrypting backup data. IT and Cybersecurity experts alike know that a critical component of a cyber-resiliency strategy must be a trusted, clean backup that you can access at any time, from anywhere. Our new Data Platform 23H2 Update enables radical resilience – to not just bounce back from an outage or data loss, but to bounce forward. By providing the shortest gap between incident and recovery, our customers can keep their business running, growing and moving ahead.”

As the #1 provider WW in the data replication and protection software market ⁽ⁱ⁾, the company continues to demonstrate innovation in data protection and ransomware recovery, delivering solutions that address the evolving needs of modern businesses. The Data Platform 23H2 updates include new security and ransomware protection functionalities for Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE and Veeam Recovery Orchestrator.

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This release delivers advanced data security, malware detection, automated recovery, and hybrid cloud capabilities across the entire hybrid-cloud environment. The Backup & Replication v12.1, the foundation of the Data Platform, further reduces incident response time with proactive threat hunting for backups, integration SIEM platforms, YARA rules for ransomware pattern detection and guides to help customers implement NIST cybersecurity best practices. Organizations of all sizes can now achieve the radical resilience that can only come from complete confidence in protection, response and recovery.

Many of the cyber security features and enhancements in the Data Platform 23H2 Update are designed to help all organizations prepare and plan for security incidents by uniting IT and security teams with the technology to confront, contain and conquer ransomware.

These cyber security features and enhancements include:

• Detect and identify cyberthreats: AI-powered and built-in Malware Detection performs low-impact inline entropy and file extension analysis during backup for immediate detection. Let your SIEM tool report infections directly into Veeam Incident API, which marks existing restore points as infected or triggers out-of-band backups in response.
• Respond and recover faster from ransomware: Perform point-in-time recovery to the moment before infection with I/O Anomaly Visualizer, which ensures the lowest possible data loss thanks to Veeam CDP. Avoid reinfection with YARA content analysis and automate clean recovery by using malware-free restore points.
• Secure and compliant protection for data: Highlight threats, identify risks and measure the security score of your environment in the new Veeam Threat Center; Ensure recovery success with automated scans with the Security and Compliance Analyzer; Prevent accidental or malicious deletion or encryption of backups by employing expanded immutability support. This includes ‘4-eyes’ backup protection, and immutable backups.

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During the VeeamON Resiliency Summit keynote, Allan highlighted new Veeam product releases for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud that are coming next month, and also teased the upcoming Kasten K10 6.5 launch. Fueling its history of innovation, the company recently announced BaaS for Microsoft 365 and Azure, and a new release for its Backup for Microsoft 365 is also planned for early 2024.

Veeam Cyber Secure Program
It combines the firm’s purpose-built technology with a team of experts to help customers protect and recover from ransomware. Available in early 2024, the program gives customers peace of mind that the storage vendor is implemented to the highest security standards and the assurance that they’re ready for a cyber incident. The Cyber Secure Program includes incident recovery services like advanced onboarding, design and implementation assistance, and quarterly health checks. During a cyber incident, customers have access to a dedicated Support Account Manager and Ransomware Response Team with 30mn SLAs. Also included in the firm’s Cyber Secure Program is the Veeam Ransomware Recovery Warranty that covers up to $5 million in data recovery expense reimbursement. Veeam Cyber Secure Program means that you’re ready for the next cyber-attack, and can rest easy knowing your backups are clean, reliable, and ready for fast recovery. More information on the program is available at: https://www.veeam.com/solutions/data-security/incident-recovery.html.

The Veeam Data Platform 23H2 update will be released later this year.

“Keeping up with the pace of cyber-threat evolution is no easy feat for IT Operations or security teams today. As technologies and attack methods continuously evolve, remaining a step ahead is more difficult than ever before. Veeam is remaining true to its disaster recovery roots while helping customers to increase their cyber-resiliency, specifically helping in a couple of areas that we hear from customers are critical – reducing downtime and reducing data loss. Additionally, capabilities like the Threat Center and the Security and Compliance Analyzer will help organizations to move towards the ‘SecOps’ collaboration that has grown to be necessary., said Krista Macomber, senior analyst, The Futurum Group

⁽ⁱ⁾ Source: IDC, Semi-Annual Software Tracker, 1H2023
Note: WW data. *IDC declares a statistical tie in the WW software market when there is a difference of 0.5%-point or less in rounded revenue market share among 2 or more vendors.

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