Veeam Software has announced the Veeam App for Microsoft Sentinel, an integration that brings backup intelligence directly to the Microsoft native cloud SIEM. The goal: close the “blind spot” that many SOCs face regarding attacks targeting a organization’s last line of defense—their backups—and coordinate real-time detection, investigation, and response with IT.
From now on, SOC analysts can correlate security signals with Veeam Data Platform events, view tactics and techniques detected by Veeam Recon Scanner, and automate containment and recovery actions without leaving Sentinel.
What the Veeam App for Microsoft Sentinel provides
- Actionable intelligence: ingestion of more than 300 backup and restore events (job failures, suspicious activity, ransomware detections, Recon Scanner findings), mapped to MITRE ATT&CK to accelerate proactive breach detection.
- Automated response: playbooks and bidirectional API connectivity enable initiating restores, running antimalware scans, and orchestrating remediation directly from Sentinel, reducing manual effort.
- Unified visibility: native dashboards display detections, restore activity, and job health alongside other SOC signals, facilitating investigations and compliance.
- IT + Security workflow: breaks down silos by connecting backup operations with security operations, accelerating ransomware response and improving team coordination.
Why it matters: from “isolated backup” to “intelligent backup”
Attackers have learned to destroy or contaminate backups before encrypting production data. Without telemetry from the backup platform in the SIEM, the SOC reacts late or lacks context. By escalating Veeam events to Sentinel and automating restores and scans directly from the SIEM, organizations gain critical minutes and operational consistency: the same rules, playbooks, and authorizations that protect production also activate data resilience.
Typical use cases
- Ongoing ransomware: correlating encryption spikes and alerts with Veeam alerts (job anomalies, blocks, Recon Scanner signals) → isolate assets, verify immutable copies, and orchestrate clean restores.
- Persistent threats: detecting TTPs in backup environments (snapshot deletion, suspicious credential rotation) → playbooks that revoke tokens, rotate keys, and validate restore point integrity.
- Compliance and audit: backup health dashboards + security traces in one place → evidence for audits and recovery SLAs.
Availability and licensing
The Veeam App for Microsoft Sentinel is included at no extra cost for Veeam Data Platform Advanced and Premium customers and is distributed through the usual Microsoft channels (Marketplace and Sentinel Content Hub). More details will be provided at the VeeamON Global Launch on November 19.
Strategic insights
- Convergence of SecOps–DataOps: the SOC stops “guessing” what’s happening in backups and acts with first-hand data.
- More predictable recovery times: restores triggered from the SIEM with central governance.
- Reduced friction: fewer tool jumps, fewer tickets, and more consistent responses.
In an environment where attackers are already targeting backups, integrating backup into the SOC isn’t a luxury—it’s a key piece of modern cyber resilience.