Dear Partners,
When we talk about infrastructure and its management, security is often the hot topic that comes up. According to the research, there was a 47% increase in cyberattacks per business in Q1 2025.
I even devote a significant amount of time in many of my seminars to talking about security best practices and how Veeam integrates with security tools. We always guide our partners to prepare their backup infrastructure to be ransomware resilient, which refers to prepare for, withstand, respond to, and recover from a ransomware attack. It's a proactive and holistic approach that goes beyond simply trying to prevent attacks, acknowledging that prevention alone may not be enough in today's sophisticated threat landscape. Instead, it focuses on building robust systems, processes, and a security-aware culture to minimize the impact of ransomware attacks and ensure business continuity even if an attack is successful.
| Veeam Security Features Highlights | |
| Backup Environment Security | Security & Compliance Analyzer |
| SIEM, syslog integration | |
| Veeam Threat Centre | |
| Multi-Factor Authentication | Veeam Backup & Replication Console |
| Enterprise Manager SAML | |
| AWS, Azure & GCP appliances | |
| Immutable Backups | Veeam Hardened Repository |
| S3 compatible storage, which offers object lock | |
| Purpose-build dedupe appliances | |
| Verified & Reliable backups | Storage level corruption guard |
| SureBackup automated recovery verification | |
| Secure client authentication | Microsoft gMSA support |
| 100% Kerberos support | |
| Key-based Linux authentication | |
| Data Freedom | Self-describing backups |
| Cloud and Hypervisor mobility | |
| End-to-end encryption | AES 256 backup encryption |
| TLS or AES 256 data traffic | |
| FIPS 140-2 cryptography | |
| Role based security | Local privileged accounts |
| Integrated Threat Detection | YARA backup scanner |
| Secure restore | |
| Advanced Anomaly Detection | AI/ML entropy & content scanner |
| Index scanner | |
Installing the aforementioned security mechanisms in your Veeam backup system is advised.
As I always stated, the foundational work of the BSF is essential for the overall success and effectiveness of the Indian military. Here, Veeam ONE plays a broader role of BSF. For this reason, we specifically encourage our monitoring team to keep a watch out for Veeam ONE alarms, recognize them (acknowledge them), and take the necessary action. Most of the time, negligence is the reason for such attacks.
Regards,
Jigar Thakker
Sources: Veeam blogs & technical documentations, social media references, etc.
Please ignore my grammatical and typo mistakes.
