Veeam Data Platform Named the Winner of the 2026 SC Award for Best Business Continuity, Disaster and Ransomware Recovery Solution at RSAC 2026

Annual awards recognize Veeam Data Platform for helping organizations protect, recover, and maintain access to critical data amid cyberattacks, outages and other disruptions

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veeam^® Software, the Data and AI Trust Company, today announced that Veaam Data Platform has won the 2026 SC Award for Best Business Continuity, Disaster and Ransomware Recovery Solution. The SC Awards, now in their 29th year, serve as the benchmark for cybersecurity excellence, spotlighting organizations and technologies that are shaping the future of cyber resilience and information security.

CyberRisk Alliance and SC Media announced this honor during an in-person ceremony at RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco, bringing together cybersecurity leaders, practitioners, and innovators from across the ecosystem. The award recognizes Veeam Data Platform as a unified solution enabling organizations to protect, recover and maintain access to critical data amid cyberattacks, outages, and other disruptions. Veeam Data Platform’s advanced ransomware resilience and seamless integration across physical, virtual, and cloud environments have set a new standard for trusted data resilience in an era of sophisticated cyber threats and operational risk.

Award-winning innovation and impact

Veeam Data Platform’s latest release introduced Recon Scanner 3.0, providing real-time operational threat visibility and flagging suspicious activity across endpoints. Its AI-powered malware analysis agent now automatically detects, classifies, and reports malicious activity while guiding organizations through secure remediation. The platform’s architecture, built on immutable backups and robust security controls, is trusted by more than 550,000 organizations globally.

“The Veeam Data Platform bridges traditional data protection with proactive cybersecurity,” said Manoj Yerrasani, vice president of engineering for data and personalization at NBCUniversal and an SC Awards judge. “Its ability to detect adversary behavior early – before backup data is compromised – advances the disaster recovery market.”

Leadership and vision for the future

“We’re honored by this recognition from SC Media. It highlights Veeam’s role at the forefront of data-centric security innovation,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam. “Veeam Data Platform is trusted by customers around the world to ensure their data is safe and protected no matter what happens. We are building the trusted data platform for the agentic enterprise, moving organizations beyond simply protecting data to empowering them to activate and unlock its full potential with AI.”

The 2026 SC Awards drew nearly 500 nominations across 33 categories, with winners selected by a distinguished panel of 39 independent judges. This year’s honorees represent a cybersecurity community that is meeting rising expectations with innovation, execution, and measurable business impact.

About the SC Awards

This year’s winners were selected through a multi-stage review led by an independent panel of practitioners and executives from the CyberRisk Collaborative (CRC) community. Entries were evaluated for problem clarity, strength of approach, evidence of effectiveness (including measurable outcomes), repeatability and scalability, and business impact. View the full list of 2026 SC Awards winners here: www.scworld.com/sc-awards.

For more information on Veeam, visit https://www.veeam.com/.

About Veeam Software

Veeam® Software is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk.

Veeam delivers deep contextual intelligence across every data asset, identity, and AI model. The company governs access for both humans and AI agents, automates privacy, compliance, and remediation processes, and protects and recovers organizations from modern threats – including ransomware, disasters, AI errors, and ensuring the restoration of clean, trusted data. Veeam empowers organizations to move beyond simply protecting data, enabling them to activate and unlock its full potential.

Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.

About CyberRisk Alliance

CyberRisk Alliance provides business intelligence that helps the cybersecurity ecosystem connect, share knowledge, accelerate careers, and make smarter and faster decisions. Through its trusted information brands, network of experts, and more than 250 annual events, CRA delivers actionable insights and serves as a powerful extension of cybersecurity marketing teams. Its brands include SC World, the Official Cybersecurity Summits, Identiverse, InfoSec World, CyberRisk Collaborative, Security Weekly, ChannelPro, ChannelE2E, MSSP Alert, ExecWeb, LaunchTech Communications, and CyberRisk TV.

Learn more at www.cyberriskalliance.com.