Availability of Veeam Data Platform 23H2 Update with Expanded Cyber Protection Capabilities and AI Assistance

Veeam Software, Inc. released availability of the Data Platform 23H2 update, including its Backup & Replication v12.1 release as well as ONE v12.1 and Recovery Orchestrator v7.

This latest release, with a focus on radical resilience, includes hundreds of new features and enhancements designed to protect enterprises’ most critical data, and also to enable them with radical resilience to bounce forward from ransomware and cyber-attacks.

“The latest Veeam Data Protection Trends Report found that 85% of organizations experienced at least one ransomware attack in the last year, while only 16% were able to recover without paying the ransom,” said Danny Allan, CTO,. “Ensuring your organization is protected and resilient in the event of an attack is the only way to make your business immune to its impacts. The new Data Platform 23H2 update, including Backup & Replication v12.1, builds on what Veeam does best: reducing downtime and data loss for our 450,000 customers. This latest release provides the shortest gap between cyber incidents and recovery, arming our customers with radical resilience to keep their business running and moving forward.”

60% of organizations need significant or complete overhauls between their backup and cyber teams, with those roles closest to the challenges of cyber events often the least satisfied with the partnering between the teams.ⁱ⁽¹⁾ New updates of this latest company’s release are designed to unite IT, cloud and security teams with technology to confront, contain and conquer ransomware together.

Features and enhancements include:

AI-powered built-in Malware Detection Engine performs low-impact inline entropy and file system analysis during backup for immediate detection of ransomware and malicious file management activity.
Veeam Threat Center highlights threats, identifies risks and measures the security score of an environment.
YARA content analysis helps pinpoint identified ransomware strains to prevent reinfection of malware into an environment; detects the presence of sensitive data in backups (like PII, PHI and PCI data).
Enhanced backup protection prevents accidental or malicious deletion or encryption of backups, including using additional immutability capabilities and the new four-eyes principle to prevent accidental backup or repository deletion.
Security for cloud backup ensures least privilege access to backup and recovery tasks with more granular IAM permissions, as well as immutable backups for Amazon RDS PostgreSQL databases.
Security and compliance analyzer continuously verifies user backup infrastructure hardening and data protection approaches against best practices to ensure recovery success.

As the #1 provider WW in the Data Replication and Protection software market ⁽²⁾, the company is launching capabilities to help organizations of all sizes achieve radical resilience that can only come from complete confidence in protection, response and recovery.

Key capabilities include:

AI-powered assistant driven by large language models and using product documentation as a context provides real-time access to wealth of firm’s knowledge, improving efficiency.
Object storage backup strengthens recovery with powerful granular restore capabilities for on-premises or cloud object storage data, secured by an ultra-resilient immutable backup.
Expanded workloads in the cloud to now protect Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure Blob, Azure virtual networks, and Google Cloud Spanner.
Automated cloud recovery validation saves time by automating the manual post recovery tasks required when recovering an on-premises workload into Microsoft Azure.
Veeam App for ServiceNow offers open integration leveraging ServiceNow workflows to monitor backup jobs, sessions and restore points in a pre-built dashboard with automatic incident creation.
Plug-in for IBM DB2 and support for Linux and SAP HANA running on IBM Power eliminates the need for multiple backup solutions in an IBM data center.
IBM 3592 ‘Jaguar’ tape support reduces costs without compromising security by combining company’s air gapped data protection with low-cost storage at enterprise scale.
Expanded enterprise capability with support for large volumes on NetApp Ontap FlexGroups, instant recovery for PostgreSQL, and integration with native backup immutability on EMC Data Domain and HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Copy storage.

“Cybercrime continues to be a highly profitable business for cyber criminals who are getting smarter and their attacks more sophisticated,” said Phil Goodwin, research VP, IDC. “This has raised the bar for backup and recovery vendors that now need to provide a full range of cyber-recovery capabilities. This includes security functionality that allows targeted companies to detect and stop the attack in its tracks Veeam’s new announcement offers significant enhancements to cyber protection capabilities. The AI-powered built-in malware detection engine, threat center and zero-trust further demonstrate Veeam’s ongoing efforts to keep customer environments safe and recover quickly if attacked.”

The Veeam Data Platform 23H2 update is available.

⁽¹⁾ Veeam Ransomware Trends Report 2023; May 23, 2023.
⁽²⁾ Source: IDC, Semi-Annual Software Tracker, 1H23 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.