Veeam and Sophos Technologies Integrate to Vigilantly Detect Cybersecurity Threats Like Ransomware, Determine the Warranted Response, and Quickly Recover Impacted Data by Exchanging Critical Information

OXFORD, U.K. — 十月 24, 2023 —

Veeam® Software, the leader in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, today announced a strategic partnership with Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering 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 advance the security of business-critical backups against ransomware attackers who attempt to manipulate, delete or change the customers backup environment as a tactic in their overall attack chain to increase pressure on victims to pay the ransom.  

With persistent cyberattackers constantly upping their game, the question is no longer if or when, but how often an organization will be impacted, making it more critical than ever for organizations to have the right protection and recovery capabilities in place. Together, Veeam and Sophos technologies vigilantly detect cybersecurity threats, determine the warranted response and rapidly recover impacted data, providing organizations peace of mind knowing their data is always available and easily recoverable. 

“The growing threat of cyberattacks can only be addressed by companies coming together to offer customers more complete and integrated protection,” said Danny Allan, CTO at Veeam. “Combining the #1 global leader in data protection and ransomware recovery with the #1 MDR offering provides customers with the most comprehensive cybersecurity protection and recovery on the market today. Keeping businesses running, no matter what happens, is central to Veeam’s overall mission, and by uniting with Sophos to create an end-to-end approach, we take another step in protecting customers from bad actors by 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. Should a threat be identified, such as an attacker attempting to tamper with backups, Veeam sends an alert to Sophos MDR—a fully-managed threat hunting, detection and response service that provides a dedicated 24/7 security team that rapidly identifies and neutralizes complex attacks, 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 actions to disrupt, contain and fully-eliminate the attacker. 

“Active adversaries are remarkably adept at evolving their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), often outpacing the detection capabilities of many organizations, as evidenced by Sophos X-Ops threat intelligence. The need for secure backups is paramount, and always-on security operations is imperative in fortifying 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 extending this urgently needed offering to organizations using Veeam. Together, we’re keeping organizations running securely.”

Additional key benefits of this strategic partnership include: 

  • Defending Against Ransomware: Advanced threat detection and prevention capabilities from Sophos, with immutable backups and versioning provided by Veeam, ensure backup data remains secure and recoverable.

  • Improving Threat Response Time: Sophos MDR security operations specialists execute immediate response actions to stop confirmed threats with an industry-leading average response time of 38 minutes—96% faster than the industry benchmark.
  • Identifying Internal Security Threats: Comprehensive monitoring of internal and external threats like malware detect unauthorized or suspicious activity that could compromise backup data.
  • Preventing Accidental Deletion: Backup versioning, audit trails, and immutable storage options safeguard backup data against unintentional actions.
  • Maintaining Compliance: Robust data protection and security features can help organizations meet regulatory compliance requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and other industry-specific regulations.
  • Satisfying Cyber Insurance Requirements: Sophos MDR helps satisfy critical cyber insurance requirements, like having 24/7 threat monitoring—reducing the likelihood of a claim denial and helping organizations get better premiums.

Availability

This Veeam Data Platform and Sophos MDR integration is expected to be available later this year. For more information, visit https://www.veeam.com

Supporting Quotes

“Coordinating cybersecurity and cyber recovery strategies gives companies the best chance of defending against, and recovering from, a ransomware attack. ITOps and SecOps teams must work closely together for both incident response planning and crisis communications. Ransomware attacks are on the rise and customers require holistic solution that can assist them through the entire data security and recovery cycle. This partnership between Veeam and Sophos aims to combine key disciplines: the ability to detect cybersecurity threats, determine the warranted response and recover impacted data quickly and safely.” – Phil Goodwin, research vice president at IDC

“Backups are an increasingly attractive target for adversaries to destroy before launching ransomware. Security is our number one priority as a trusted managed service provider. We need to know immediately when a customer’s backups are being tampered with or when malware is present so we can quickly neutralize threats and preserve data integrity. We proudly protect our customers’ diverse environments with Sophos MDR. This new partnership extends 24/7 threat detection and response as an extra layer of security to our backup and recovery solution, Nevtec Data Protection Services (NDPS), powered by Veeam. Knowing that Sophos’ highly trained security operations specialists are monitoring our backups 24/7 and can neutralize threats within minutes is a tremendous value add.” – Steve Neverve, president at Nevtec

关于 Sophos

Sophos 是全球领先的网络安全公司,凭借其人工智能驱动的平台和专家主导的服务,保护着全球 60 万家组织的安全。Sophos 根据各组织在不同安全成熟度的各式各样的需求提供支持,并与其共同成长,携手应对日益严峻的网络攻击。其解决方案结合机器学习、自动化、实时威胁情报以及来自 Sophos X-Ops 的前线真人专家的专业知识,提供 24/7 全天候高级威胁监控、侦测与响应服务。
Sophos 提供行业领先的托管式侦测与响应 (MDR) 服务,同时配备一整套全面的网络安全技术组合,包括端点、网络、电子邮件和云安全、扩展式侦测与响应 (XDR)、身份辨识威胁侦测与响应 (ITDR),以及下一代 SIEM。结合专家咨询服务,这些能力帮助组织主动降低风险,并更迅速地响应,提供力求在不断变化的威胁面前保持领先所需的可见性和可扩展性。
Sophos 通过全球合作伙伴生态系统进入市场,包括托管式服务提供商 (MSPs)、托管式安全服务提供商 (MSSPs)、经销商、分销商、市场集成商以及网络风险合作伙伴,为组织提供灵活的选择,使其能够在保护业务安全的同时建立值得信赖的合作关系。  Sophos 总部位于英国牛津。如欲了解更多信息,请访问 www.sophos.cn。