In today’s threat landscape, security operations center (SOC) teams are expected to respond faster than ever, but critical security signals often remain hidden in places they don’t regularly monitor. One of the biggest blind spots? Backup activity. When attackers target backups for deletion, tampering, or malware injection, those early warning signs rarely make it into the SOC’s detection workflow.
Enhancements to the Veeam + CrowdStrike Partnership
Building on our shared commitment to unite data resilience with modern security operations, Veeam and CrowdStrike are introducing new capabilities that deepen the integration between our platforms. Today, we’re adding two new Veeam dashboards inside CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM, along with new rule templates that help SOC analysts spot high-risk backup activity faster. These enhancements strengthen how backup intelligence supports front-line detection, giving teams the visibility they need to act earlier in an attack.
Introducing Veeam Dashboards for Falcon Next-Gen SIEM
To make backup intelligence even more accessible inside Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, Veeam has introduced two new dashboards designed to give SOC analysts visibility into backup security and data protection health. These dashboards mirror the experience that’s available in CrowdStrike Falcon® LogScale and bring the most relevant Veeam signals directly into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, where analysts already investigate and correlate threats.
- The Veeam Security Dashboard helps analysts spot suspicious backup behavior early, including abnormal restore patterns, unexpected backup deletions, and other high-risk activity that may indicate ransomware or insider threat movement. By surfacing these signals alongside endpoint, identity, and cloud data, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM gives SOC teams a clearer picture of how attackers may be interacting with backup infrastructure.
- The Veeam Data Protection Dashboard provides real-time visibility into backup job status, replication activity, repository state, and health alerts. This helps teams ensure their data remains protected, replicated, and recovery-ready, while also making it easier for analysts to validate the integrity of backups during an investigation or active incident.
Expanding Detection with Rule Templates
As backup signals become increasingly crucial to threat detection, Veeam is contributing a new set of rule templates that are built around high-severity backup activity events like malware identified in backups, unauthorized deletion of backup objects or repositories, and suspicious or unexpected restore operations. These templates give SOC analysts a clearer view into behaviors that often precede ransomware deployment or insider threat activity, and they support both one-time searches and scheduled monitoring within Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.
How Rule Templates Work Inside Falcon Next-Gen SIEM
Rule templates in Falcon Next-Gen SIEM provide pre-built detection logic developed by CrowdStrike and selected third-party partners like Veeam that are designed to address a variety of threat scenarios. Rather than starting from scratch, teams can use these templates as a starting point and modify them as needed for their specific environments to accelerate detection deployment.
The Rule Template Discovery dashboard helps SOC teams quickly identify which templates align with their existing data sources. Instead of manually reviewing hundreds of rule templates, the dashboard automatically surfaces which rules will work with the data that has been already onboarded, including Veeam data. Security teams can filter by severity level, MITRE ATT&CK® tactic, and specific vendors to focus on the most relevant threats. Once a template is identified, it can be quickly tested against historic data to preview expected alert volumes through dashboard interactions before being deployed as an active rule. The dashboard also surfaces newly released templates to keep your detection capabilities current with emerging threats.
Driving Faster, More Confident Detection Together
Together, Veeam and CrowdStrike make backup activity visible where it matters most — inside the SOC — so analysts can identify risks earlier and respond with greater confidence. When backup data shows signs of tampering, deletion, or embedded malware, analysts can quickly correlate those signals with endpoint, identity, or cloud activity. This helps teams spot threats earlier, reduce uncertainty during investigations, and build the confidence they need to stop attacks before they escalate.
Why it Matters
When security teams can see backup alerts and protection health alongside their other threat signals, decisions become sharper and response gets faster. Analysts no longer have to guess whether their backup data was tampered with, whether their restore points are trustworthy, or whether deletion activity is malicious.
With these new dashboards and rule templates, organizations can:
- Detect threats earlier by surfacing high-risk backup activity the moment it occurs.
- Investigate incidents faster by correlating backup intelligence with endpoint, identity, and cloud telemetry.
- Reduce uncertainty during analysis with real-time visibility into backup health, restore behavior, and potential tampering.
- Recover with greater confidence by validating clean restore points directly within the SOC workflow.
- Strengthen collaboration across teams by giving IT and security teams a shared, actionable view of backup resilience.
Looking Ahead Together
These updates reflect the ongoing evolution of the Veeam + CrowdStrike partnership and our commitment to helping customers close the gap between protection, detection, and recovery. By bringing backup intelligence directly into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, we’re giving security teams the visibility they need to act earlier and recover with confidence. Together, we’ll continue expanding the ways our platforms work in tandem to deliver stronger cyber resilience.
Download the Veeam Data Connector for CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to get started today!
