Punta Cana, DR.- Veeam® Software, a leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, today announced a strategic alliance with Sophos, global leader in innovation and delivery of cybersecurity as a service. Through the partnership, Veeam Data Platform will integrate with Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR), adding a critical layer of human-led threat detection and response to improve the security of business-critical backups against ransomware attackers. who attempt to manipulate, remove or change the clients’ backup environment as a tactic in their overall attack chain to increase pressure on victims to pay the ransom.
As persistent cyber attackers constantly up their game, the question is no longer if or when an organization will be affected, but rather how often, making it more important than ever for businesses to have the right protection and recovery capabilities in place. Together, Veeam and Sophos technologies carefully detect cybersecurity threats, determine the warranted response, and quickly recover affected data, giving organizations peace of mind that their data is always available and easily recoverable.
“The growing threat of cyberattacks can only be addressed if companies come together to offer customers more comprehensive and integrated protection,” said Danny Allan, CTO of Veeam. “The combination of the No. 1 global leader in data protection and ransomware recovery with the No. 1 MDR offering provides customers with the most comprehensive cybersecurity protection and recovery on the market today. Keeping businesses running, no matter what, is critical to Veeam’s overall mission, and by joining with Sophos to create an end-to-end approach, we take another step to protect customers from bad actors, strengthening their overall security posture and enabling radical resilience.”
Veeam Data Platform monitors an organization’s environment to detect potential threats against customers’ production workloads and their backup environment. If a threat is identified, such as when an attacker attempts to tamper with backups, Veeam sends an alert to Sophos MDR, a fully managed threat hunting, detection and response service provided by a dedicated 24/7 security team. week, which quickly identifies and neutralizes complex attack threats, including ransomware, network breaches, hands-on keyboard adversaries and more. The Sophos MDR security operations team can determine if an attack is occurring and take action to disrupt, contain and completely eliminate the attacker.
“Active adversaries are remarkably adept at evolving their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), often surpassing the detection capabilities of many organizations, as demonstrated by Sophos X-Ops threat intelligence. The need for secure backups is paramount, and always-on security operations are imperative to hardening this business-critical data,” said Marty Ward, vice president of Technology Operations at Sophos. “Sophos MDR is the most widely used MDR offering, with more than 19,000 customers worldwide, and we look forward to expanding this urgently needed offering to organizations using Veeam. Together, we keep businesses running safely.”
Additional key benefits of this strategic alliance include:
- Defense against ransomware: Sophos’ advanced threat detection and prevention capabilities, with immutable backups and version control provided by Veeam, ensure backup data remains secure and recoverable.
- Improved response time to threats: Sophos MDR security operations specialists execute immediate response actions to detect confirmed threats with an industry-leading average response time of 38 minutes, 96% faster than the industry benchmark.
- Identification of threats to internal security: Comprehensive monitoring for internal and external threats, such as malware, detects unauthorized or suspicious activity that could compromise backup data.
- Preventing accidental deletion: Backup versioning, audit logs, and immutable storage options protect backup data from unintended actions.
- Maintaining compliance: Robust security and data protection features can help organizations meet regulatory compliance requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and other industry-specific regulations.
- Compliance with cyber insurance requirements: Sophos MDR helps meet critical requirements for cyber insurance, such as having 24/7 threat monitoring, reducing the likelihood of a claim being denied and helping businesses earn better premiums .
Availability
The Veeam Data Platform and Sophos MDR integration is expected to be available later this year. For more information, visit https://www.veeam.com.
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