Veeam Software has entered into a new partnership with cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks to simplify security operations and strengthen data resilience.
The integration addresses the need for organisations to take an integrated approach to protecting their data backups and proactively responding to cyber threats through the capabilities offered by Veeam’s new Apps and Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XSOAR. With this new integration, Veeam is the first Palo Alto Networks partner to independently design and develop a data collector, dashboards, and reports for Cortex XSIAM.
“Cyber threats are a reality for every single organisation,” said Veeam’s SVP of Strategy Dave Russell. “It takes teamwork to fight this escalating battle against ransomware. We are excited to integrate with Palo Alto Networks to provide customers with capabilities to further strengthen their data resilience. This powerful integration enables our 550,000 customers to better protect their backups and respond to cyberattacks faster, tightening their security posture and helping to ensure reliable, rapid and trusted recovery.”
The partnership will see Veeam and Palo Alto Networks integrate technology to centralise, scale, and automate data monitoring and incident response. By integrating Palo Alto Networks AI-driven security operations centre platform with Veeam’s recovery capabilities, organisations can identify and respond to cyberattacks faster, helping to ensure the resilience of their business-critical backup data.
“We are thrilled to collaborate with Veeam, empowering organisations to respond and react more quickly to threats facing their critical data,” said Palo Alto Networks’ Pamela Cyr. “By combining the power of Palo Alto Networks’ AI-driven security operations centre platform with data resilience capabilities from Veeam we can help customers identify and respond to threats, ensuring the resilience of business-critical data. The new integration demonstrates our shared commitment to providing organisations with tools and technologies that help them proactively combat evolving cyber threats and strengthen their security posture.”
The integration introduces two new applications – the Veeam apps integrated with Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XSOAR that leverage a bi-directional API connection to monitor, detect, and respond to security incidents impacting critical business data and data backups. The Veeam app integrated with Cortex XSIAM brings data from Veeam Backup and Replication and VeeamONE environments into Cortex XSIAM, providing a centralised view of data and backup security-related activity. The Veeam App integrated with Cortex XSOAR enables regular API queries against Veeam Backup and Replication and Veeam ONE, monitoring for significant security events or alerts. Both applications are included at no charge to Veeam Data Platform Advanced and Premium customers.
Key customer benefits of the Veeam and Palo Alto Networks integrations include:
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Centralise security operations: Obtain a comprehensive view of security operations across the entire environment, including the Veeam environment, to stop threats and improve situational awareness.
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Easily configure critical security systems: Simplify setup and installation of Veeam apps with pre-configured monitoring and security dashboards, helping to ensure smooth and efficient onboarding.
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Automate incident investigation and response: Eliminate alert fatigue and speed up incident response with AI-powered automation to deliver real-time, automated response to potential security threats in Veeam environments.
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Scale security strategy with automation and AI: Monitor enterprise-scale environments without overwhelming security teams with burdensome alerts and manual processes.
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Help maintain compliance and regulatory requirements: Ensure efficient and effective incident management while meeting recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, and supporting industry compliance regulations with automated ransomware recovery.
These new integrations will be highlighted at the VeeamON Data Resilience Summit, which will be held virtually on October 2, 2024.
New Veeam Apps integrated with Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XSOAR are included in Veeam Data Platform Advanced and Premium.
