More than 70 new features ship in v13.1, including automated Active Directory Forest Recovery, threat detection extended to more workloads, post-quantum cryptography, and Veeam Intelligence that evolves from an assistant that answers questions into an agent that investigates and acts. Read more

In February of 2024, a consortium of law enforcement agencies took down LockBit ransomware group. The discovery that LockBit retained victims’ stolen data despite promises to delete it demonstrates a critical flaw in the advice often given to ransomware victims. At the time, many legal and incident response professionals recommended payment on the assumption that LockBit had a strong financial incentive to honor its commitments and that the likelihood of data being publicly released after payment was relatively low. While that assessment may have appeared reasonable based on short-term observed outcomes, it relied heavily on assumptions about the behavior of a criminal enterprise that could never be independently verified. Read more

Organizations invest in backup to ensure they can recover when the unexpected happens. But today’s attackers understand that recovery is often the greatest obstacle to a successful attack. Rather than focusing solely on production systems, attackers increasingly target backup infrastructure itself: Attempting to delete backups, disable services, and compromise recovery points before launching an attack. Read more

MVB or MVC refers to the minimum possible version of an organization that can still operate should an incident bring down systems and operations. They are critical concepts in cyber resilience planning and response. They define the bare minimum operations, processes, systems, and data an organization must restore to remain functional after a cyberattack. Read more