Veeam Continues to Champion Data Resilience by Signing CISA Secure by Design Pledge

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veeam^® Software, the #1 leader by market share in Data Resilience, today signed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Secure By Design Pledge underlining its commitment to power data resilience for customers to keep their business running no matter what happens. CISA’s Secure by Design pledge is a voluntary pledge for enterprise software products and services - including on-premises software, cloud services, and software as a service (SaaS) – in line with CISA’s Secure by Design principles.

This pledge seeks to complement and build on existing software security best practices, including those developed by CISA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), other federal agencies, and international and industry best practices. The Secure by Design pledge is a good faith promise to make demonstratable and measurable progress across a set of seven shared focus areas, which multi-factor authentication (MFA), default passwords, reducing entire classes of vulnerability, security patches, vulnerability disclosure policy, common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE), and evidence of intrusions. In the spirit of transparency, Veeam is encouraged to share with CISA within one year their approach and development so that others can learn and benefit from their progress.

“Our business is about ensuring organizations’ data is protected and available at all times. Today, we power data resilience for 550,000 customers and work with 34,000 partners around the world,” said Gil Vega, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Veeam. “Whether an organization is facing a cyber-attack, outage or a natural disaster, Veeam is trusted to keep data safe, protected and available. We’re passionate about CISA’s Secure by Design principles of integrating robust cybersecurity practices into our product development and service offerings. This pledge is another testament to Veeam’s mission of enabling data resilience and ensuring businesses are able to bounce forward from cyber-attacks and data disruptions.”

Veeam Data Platform is a single solution that provides data security, data recovery, and data freedom to back up and use data from anywhere without platform or cloud lock-in. Veeam currently supports VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization, as well as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Veeam Data Cloud provides the same powerful data protection capabilities Veeam is known for, delivered ‘as a Service’ for Microsoft 365 and Azure data protection.

Veeam continuously invests, innovates, and adds to industry and regulatory credentials to help ensure critical business data is protected and secure. For more information, visit https://www.veeam.com.

Learn more about Veeam and discover how organizations of all sizes can keep their data secure, protected, and accessible during VeeamON Data Resilience Summit, taking place virtually October 1 (AMER and EMEA) and October 2 (APJ). Register now for free: https://www.veeam.com/veeamon-data-resilience-summit.

About Veeam Software

Veeam^®, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes every business should be able to bounce forward after a disruption with the confidence and control of all their data whenever and wherever they need it.​ Veeam calls this radical resilience, and we’re obsessed with creating innovative ways to help our customers achieve it.

Veeam solutions are purpose-built for powering data resilience by providing data backup, data recovery, data freedom, data security, and data intelligence. ​With Veeam, IT and security leaders rest easy knowing that their apps and data are protected and always available across their cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments.

Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 74% of the Global 2000, that trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. ​Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.