Modern cyberattacks are complex campaigns designed to move fast and disrupt critical operations. Security tools excel at spotting threats in production but often lack visibility into backup environments. Meanwhile, data backup platforms are built for fast recovery but have historically operated in isolation from the security operations center (SOC).
This separation creates blind spots just when speed and coordination matter most. That’s why Veeam maintains partnerships with 65+ organizations in the cybersecurity segment, including co-developed integrations and marketplace applications with partners such as Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike, to bring backup event data directly into the SOC. With this unified visibility, organizations can detect threats earlier, automate response workflows, and validate clean recovery before systems are restored. Backup is no longer just the last line of defense; it becomes an active participant in cyber defense strategy.
Inside the Ecosystem: How Veeam Integrates Across Security Domains
Veeam’s cyber resilient ecosystem connects Veeam Data Platform with leading technologies across the SOC stack. These integrations span multiple security domains, each designed to strengthen cyber resilience through shared visibility, automated response, and verified recovery.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Forward backup-related operations, security events, and Veeam ONE alarms into the SOC for active monitoring.
- Correlate backup data with endpoint, network, and identity activity to detect coordinated attacks.
- Expand threat-hunting capabilities to include anomalies detected in backup environments.
Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)
- Trigger automated playbooks for tasks such as creating clean backups, initiating malware scans, or resolving alarms.
- Reduce manual intervention and speed up response times through automated workflows.
- Centralize alert management for both production and backup environments.
Detection and Response (e.g., EDR, MDR, XDR)
- EDR: Detect and stop malicious activity at the endpoint level, for everything from ransomware to privilege abuse, while correlating with backup security events.
- MDR: Leverage managed services to investigate, triage, and respond to threats faster by combining SOC expertise with backup intelligence.
- XDR: Extend detection and response across endpoints, networks, identities, and cloud workloads, enhanced with backup security events for broader visibility.
- Align backup activity monitoring with endpoint, managed, and extended detection strategies. With the Veeam Incident API, SOC tools can flag malicious restore points or trigger quick backups, which helps accelerate investigation and ensure clean recovery paths.
Network Detection and Response (NDR)
- Monitor and analyze network traffic for signs of ransomware, insider threats, or lateral movement.
- Detect malicious activity in encrypted traffic or unauthorized data transfers.
- Feed network detections into workflows enriched with backup intelligence.
These domains create the bridge between the SOC and Veeam’s built-in capabilities, where backup signals flow directly into the broader cyber defense strategy.
Veeam Data Platform: A New Signal Source for Security Teams
Beyond integrations, Veeam delivers built-in capabilities across its protect, detect, and recover pillars of cyber resilience. These capabilities ensure that when a cyber incident occurs, your backup environment can become a source of intelligence and recovery readiness for security teams.
Protect Smarter
When an attack is underway, the last thing you want is for attackers to touch your recovery data. That’s why Veeam hardens the backup environment from the start. This makes Veeam more than just a safety net, but a secure stronghold that attackers can’t compromise. With modern secure-by-design principles, verified immutability, and ransomware readiness expertise, recovery points remain clean, intact, and ready when you need them most.
- Secure-by-design and zero-trust architecture: Security is baked in at every layer, verifying every request so no user, device, or network segment is trusted by default.
- Verified and immutable backups: Tamper-proof and air-gapped to ensure long-term data integrity across all environments.
- Ransomware readiness enablement: Access threat intelligence from thousands of cyber extortion cases through Veeam Cyber Secure and Coveware Cyber Extortion Readiness and Response Retainer to prepare before disaster strikes.
Detect Faster
When threat actors try to compromise your systems and data, detection speed makes all the difference. Veeam turns backup activity into a stream of security-relevant signals so the SOC can spot suspicious behaviors before they escalate. From restore point deletion and malware detection to multi-factor authentication (MFA) tampering, these early warning signs can trigger investigations before data is lost or encrypted.
- Inline scanning: Detect anomalies during backup jobs with entropy and file system activity analysis.
- Indicators of Compromise (IoC) scanner: Flag known hacker tools and dual-use utilities early.
- Veeam Threat Hunter: A machine learning and heuristic-based backup scanner that’s designed to detect millions of malware variants.
- Recon Scanner: Identify suspicious behavior and map it to known adversary TTPs to stop attacks sooner.
- Veeam Incident API: Integrate with SOC tooling to flag malicious restore points and trigger out-of-band backups for actively encrypted workloads.
Recover Clean
Once an attack is contained, recovery speed and integrity determine how quickly operations can resume. Recovery capabilities ensure that only clean data is restored, downtime is minimized, and business continuity is preserved.
- Veeam Cyber Secure: Accelerate incident resolution and strengthen cyber extortion readiness with expert-led negotiation and decryption services.
- Veeam Clean Rooms (powered by DataLabs): Validate backups in isolated, malware-free environments with automated testing via SureBackup and Secure Restore.
- Veeam Secure Restore: Scan backups before recovery to ensure they are free of malware by integrating Threat Hunter and YARA-rule scanning directly into the process.
- Veeam Recovery Orchestrator: Automate and test recovery at scale with built-in audit documentation to simplify compliance.
From Backup and Recovery to Strategic Signal Source
In a world where SOC teams are inundated with alerts, backup data closes a critical visibility gap. Security teams gain visibility into an environment that’s often overlooked, IT teams get the confidence of clean, tested recovery points, and the organization closes critical gaps in its cyber defense. The result? Smarter protection, faster detection, and confident clean recovery.
Visit Veeam’s Alliances Page to learn more about our security integrations and our Data Security Page for the latest Veeam security features.