In this second part (the first part can be found here) of setting up and hardening a Veeam “hardened repository,” I will cover how to set up Ubuntu 20.04 in a secure way. While it’s “just a minimal installation,” I have seen many questions on this topic, so let’s clear some things up. Read more

The Veeam Hardened Repository is Veeam’s native solution to provide trusted immutability for backups of Veeam Backup & Replication on a Linux server. By supporting generic Linux servers, Veeam ensures that customers always have a choice about their hardware without vendor lock-in. Veeam also allows customers to use their trusted Linux distribution (Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE) instead of being forced to use a “custom Veeam Linux”. Read more

“Veeam is a winner — it accelerated our Digital Transformation, played a pivotal role in our data center migration and elevated our cybersecurity operation. We couldn’t have accomplished what we accomplished without Veeam.” Read more

At VNOG, we provide essential fire-fighting services and assistance in the event of accidents, disasters and crises to the 870,000 citizens of North and East Gelderland in the Netherlands. In this blog post, I’ll tell the story of my most memorable day as VNOG’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Read more

Business continuity, simply put, is enabling your business to continue operating at an acceptable level in the event of an incident - large or small. Continuity for your business means being proactive, ready for inevitable disruption and able to react to resume critical services.   Read more

One of the cornerstones of Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices is using multiple accounts to manage your workloads. Dedicating accounts to specific business units or even specific applications provides numerous benefits that increase agility, improve security and streamline operations. This practice also helps operators follow the principle of least privilege, whereby only a minimal set of privileges required to perform a task are assigned to responsible users and services, and ideally, only for the time required to complete the task. Read more

As your business embraces Amazon Web Services (AWS), it is imperative to ensure that your data remains secure/protected and you are minimizing costs. One of the ways to increase security and minimize costs in AWS is through a Gateway Endpoint. Read more

Enterprises routinely face challenges when it comes to protecting their critical workloads. Meeting demanding Service Level Agreements (SLAs), unsought multi-team workflows, and convoluted or sprawling toolsets are just a few of the common constraints that organizations routinely face. When these challenges start to compound, you quickly wind up in situations where simple tasks can grind your applications to a halt.  Read more

As Veeam released Veeam Backup for Salesforce, Veeam also published the data protection industry’s first independent research project on protecting Salesforce data by surveying 800 unbiased respondents across three personas (Salesforce administrators, backup administrators, IT operations): The 2022 Salesforce Protection Trends Report. Read more

2023 is fast-approaching, as is the release of Veeam Platform v12. Now is a great time to take a closer look at your backup strategies from all directions: To the cloud, of the cloud and even from the cloud. From consistent cloud bill shock, to the overwhelming tyranny of choice in cloud platforms and services, to the ever-looming threat of a cyber-attack, there’s a litany of reasons organizations should consider taking time to evaluate and optimize. Read more