Securing your backups and demonstrating compliance with Continuity

  • 16 February 2023
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Customers in regulated industries like finance, healthcare, telecommunications, and energy are required to validate their compliance with regulatory standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, various ISO standards, and others. Compliance is a difficult problem area. Data must be gathered from across the organization and compiled into standardized reports and submitted to the regulatory body. Then, for any gaps identified, remediation actions must be defined and progress to rectify the gaps must be demonstrated. Lastly, compliance is an ongoing process that must be followed and enforced by policy wherever possible to avoid fines and penalties that could result from an audit failure. Additionally, many organizations applying for cybersecurity insurance face an increasingly complex list of requirements, so the problem field has potential to grow into non-regulated sectors. In summary: compliance is enormously time-consuming, difficult, and the stakes are high.

Continuity Software's StorageGuard is a solution purpose-built for solving many of the challenges of maintaining regulatory compliance in your storage infrastructure. While there are several frameworks and solutions for securing guest operating systems and applications, this solution focuses specifically on the storage system and its configuration. More details are available on their website at https://www.continuitysoftware.com/storageguard/.

Continuity has developed an integration for Veeam which allows their customers to assess backup security for compliance with various standards. This would allow our mutual customers to easily create assessments of their Veeam environment in relation to a specific regulation. For Veeam's customers who operate in the regulated industries mentioned previously, this could be a meaningful partnership to help them resolve a critical pain point.

Continuity is hosting a webinar on March 2, 2023 at 10 AM ET, and will be featuring Veeam in a discussion about ransomware and compliance and this integration. We have co-authored an article on their blog to promote the upcoming webinar, which is available here: https://www.continuitysoftware.com/blog/how-to-demonstrate-backup-compliance-a-practical-guide/ - There is a sign-up for the webinar at the article's conclusion.

You can also find it on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/events/avertingdisaster-howtoautomates7023958331413151744/

Join us on March 2 at 10:00 AM ET to learn more about their solution and integration with Veeam.


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@ericeberg nice jib.  I am assuming that this is using the Veeam Mount API to look at backups?  It sounds like a great integration point!

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Very interesting scenario for this writeup.  Nice job.

Userlevel 7
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@ericeberg  very interesting thank you for sharing

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Sounds great! But the trial is limited to 14 days only. Can this be made free for Veeam Legends in order to learn and test before recommending it? 

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Great job!

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Sounds very interesting!

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