Veeam Software
Cloud Application Security Engineer
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About Veeam Software
Veeam Software is a US-based information technology company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 2006, Veeam specializes in backup, disaster recovery, and modern data protection software for various environments, including virtual, cloud-native, SaaS, Kubernetes, and physical workloads. The company has grown significantly, employing around 6,000 people and establishing itself as a global leader in data protection solutions. Veeam's core products include Veeam Backup & Replication, which offers incremental backups and image-based replication, and Veeam Data Cloud, which provides solutions for public and private cloud environments. The company also focuses on monitoring, reporting, and analysis for virtual infrastructure, supporting a range of workloads. Veeam emphasizes scalable, AI-powered data protection and is transitioning towards subscription-based services to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes.
Security at Veeam Software
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Security Philosophy
“Veeam's AppSec philosophy emphasizes "Secure by Design"and "Zero Trust Principles". Their approach includes "Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment"to "identify, assess, track, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities". They also focus on "AI-Powered, Best-in-Market Threat Detection"and advocate for "Shift-left backup catches risks early". Information regarding developer enablement versus gatekeeping, and specific stated pain points or goals, is not publicly available.”
Security Team
Key public-facing leaders include Gil Vega, Veeam's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and Rehan Jalil, Veeam's President of Security & AI. Rehan Jalil's role involves "ensuring consistent engineering standards, application security, and operational excellence". While Veeam acquired 600 AI and security experts, specific information regarding the AppSec team's organizational structure, estimated size, and active AppSec-specific job postings is not publicly available.
Key Initiatives
Veeam's initiatives include a focus on "Shift-left backup catches risks early". Their vulnerability management process involves identifying, assessing, tracking, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities, as evidenced by public knowledge base articles detailing "vulnerabilities found in Veeam Backup & Replication 13"and "vulnerability in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows allows for Local Privilege Escalation". Recent initiatives include "AI-Powered, Best-in-Market Threat Detection"and "Veeam Intelligence provides a chatbot experience", alongside building "The Largest Ecosystem of Security Integrations". Information on a specific Security Champions Program, detailed triage/remediation processes (SLAs, MTTR), or specific Secure SDLC artifacts is not publicly available.
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