Veeam champions radical resilience for proactive cyber threat defense

SANDEEP BHAMBURE
VP & MD - INDIA & SAARC, VEEAM SOFTWARE

At Veeam, our mission is to help organizations achieve data resilience—not just recover from cyber-attacks, data loss, or outages, but emerge stronger and stay ahead of future threats. Recon Scanner, now integrated into the Veeam Data Platform, leverages intelligence from Coveware by Veeam, which maintains one of the world’s largest ransomware incident databases. It proactively scans backup environments for malicious activity, such as unusual file changes or suspicious user behaviour, helping detect threats early. We follow Zero Trust principles—no action is trusted by default, access is restricted, backups are immutable, and all operations are verified. Our Threat Center in Veeam ONE consolidates critical insights across the platform, giving customers a unified view of their environment’s security posture. We also partner with companies like CrowdStrike to combine endpoint protection with data resilience, offering visibility and actionable intelligence across infrastructures.

With cybercriminals growing more sophisticated and the attack surface expanding, we embrace Radical Resilience—helping organizations recover quickly with minimal disruption. Our expanded Cyber Secure Program includes quarterly security assessments, guaranteed incident response within 15 minutes, and ransomware recovery warranties, especially valuable in India and the SAARC region. Secure by Design principles guide our development process, with malware detection embedded before, during, and after backups. While Veeam doesn’t manufacture hardware, we advocate best practices for firmware and BIOS security. We recommend enabling UEFI native mode, Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and using immutable, hardened repositories. Post BIOS updates, rescanning and validation ensure systems remain fully operational, securing data protection from the hardware up.