Veritas 360 Defense to deliver hybrid cyber resilience

Veritas Technologies has introduced Veritas 360 Defense, the first extensible architecture in its space that brings together leading data protection, data governance, and data security capabilities. Veritas 360 Defense delivers a unique set of cyber resilience capabilities integrated with leading security vendors, such as CrowdStrike, CyberArk, Qualys, Semperis and Symantec by Broadcom. Veritas 360 Defense has been battle tested against real-world ransomware variants in the Veritas REDLab.

Recent research1 has shown that it takes 73 days, on average, to identify and contain a ransomware attack. Matt Waxman, senior vice president and general manager, data protection at Veritas, said: “When malware hits data that’s spread across today’s complex, heterogenous, multi-cloud environments, the response is typically managed by multiple teams using disparate tools. This can prolong the time it takes to recover – or even make recovery impossible. Veritas 360 Defense uniquely addresses these challenges by unifying data security, data protection and data governance with our security ecosystem so organisations can recover quickly, know who accessed data and proactively mitigate threats.”

A 360 Degree Blueprint for Cyber Resiliency

Built on a proven foundation of Veritas native security capabilities across data security, data protection and data governance, the Veritas 360 Defense reference architecture takes cyber resiliency to the next level by adding REDLab Validation, new product capabilities and integrations with leading security partners:

Veritas REDLab

A unique programme for Veritas offerings and integrated security partner solutions, REDLab tests and documents product integrations providing organisations with validated best practices and deployment blueprints to mitigate risk. By purposefully subjecting the integrated solutions to real-world ransomware attacks in the Veritas state-of-the-art, isolated, REDLab test environment, customers can be assured that the Veritas validated solution will protect their data, detect threats and allow them to recover with confidence.

New Cyber Resiliency Features in the Veritas Portfolio

Veritas is bolstering its cyber recovery capabilities by adding malware scanning for new workloads, including Kubernetes, anomaly detection of administrator actions and data entropy, simplified recovery malware scanning workflows and additional support for Azure Active Directory. In addition, multi-person authorisation for critical operations has been added to further harden backup and recovery infrastructure.

Expanded Ecosystem of Security Partner Capabilities Integrated With 360 Defense, Including:

• Advanced threat protection during pre- and post-incident recovery with the discovery of compromised systems and critical vulnerabilities for restoration, leveraging powerful attack-surface visibility and AI-powered vulnerability management capabilities of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.

• Advanced privileged access management with best-in-class credential management to enable security teams to securely access, administer and configure the various solutions and workloads across the Veritas partner ecosystem for 360 Defense. The partner integrations leveraged CyberArk’s API-first approach, developer friendly tools and utilities to simplify securely adding new partners to the ecosystem.

• Assessment, prioritisation and remediation of ransomware-causing vulnerabilities and backup storage through Qualys, so recoveries are always free of misconfigured or ransomware-causing vulnerabilities.

• Automated, malware-free Active Directory forest recovery and forensics to cut AD downtime by 90% and eliminate backdoors, attack paths and other vulnerabilities attackers left behind in the environment – through Semperis.

• Protection from threats to primary and secondary data sets – through Symantec.

Bill Driver, vice president, information technology, Rio Hotel & Casino, a Dreamscape Companies property, said: “We trust Veritas, with solutions like the Veritas Alta cloud data management platform, to help us protect our data as a key part of an overall security posture that includes a variety of security vendors. Knowing that Veritas is extending its relationships with other vendors that we rely on will enable us to follow simple validated designs to ensure that solutions interoperate. With Veritas and its partners taking on this role, our team is free to focus on transformational activity, confident that we’re protected against cyberattacks.”

Krista Macomber, data protection, security and cyber resiliency analyst, The Futurum Group, said: “An expanding threat landscape means that enterprises are having to introduce more security solutions than ever before to stay ahead of bad actors. But these tools don’t always work well together, which can lengthen the time to contain, and recover from, an attack. Selecting products from an ecosystem that have been pre-tested to ensure security and interoperability can give enterprises the confidence to bounce back faster from a cyberattack and lower the costs associated with a breach in their defences.”