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Rick Vanover and Emilee Tellez focus on the core of the Veeam portfolio: Resilience. The presenters track the evolution of data protection through three distinct generations of disasters, starting with Operational Resilience (fire, flood, and hardware failure), moving into Cyber Resilience (ransomware and targeted encryption), and arriving at the emerging frontier of AI Resilience. This new phase addresses risks such as over-privileged AI agents and non-human identities that can cause massive data deletion or corruption at hyperspeed. To combat these threats, Veeam introduced Agent Commander, an integration of their recent security acquisitions designed to discover AI agents, monitor their permissions via the Data Command Graph, and provide a surgical undo button for AI-driven mistakes.
The presentation highlights how Veeam has pivoted toward “Left of the Boom” preparedness, specifically through its acquisition of Coveware. This integration provides deep forensic visibility into threat actor TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), allowing Veeam to offer proactive scanning before, during, and after a backup. Emilee Tellez details a comprehensive defensive grid that includes an Incident API for EDR tool integration, Recon Scanners to identify brute-force attempts in production, and Veeam Threat Hunter, a proprietary signature-based detection engine. Furthermore, Veeam addresses the exfiltration trend in modern ransomware by emphasizing Data Sovereignty and immutable storage, claiming that no customer utilizing their 70+ immutable storage options and encryption has been unable to recover from an attack.
To dispel the myth that its software is only for small businesses or bound to Windows, Veeam showcases its enterprise-grade Veeam Software Appliance. Now running on a hardened Rocky Linux distribution, the appliance comes pre-packaged with the DISA STIG security profile at no extra cost, which is a significant benefit for government and high-security sectors. The segment features a demonstration of the appliance’s Day 2 operations, highlighting mandatory, automated updates that cover everything from the operating system to the backup application itself. By combining this hardened infrastructure with Data Labs for testing and a portability engine that facilitates massive migrations between hypervisors like VMware and Hyper-V, Veeam positions itself as the most comprehensive end-to-end resilience platform in the 2026 market.
Personnel: Emilee Tellez, Rick Vanover
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