As director of public sector sales for Veeam in the U.S., I spend my days talking with state agencies, county CIOs, school districts, and federal program managers who are under relentless pressure. Ransomware actors see public services as soft targets, compliance mandates tighten every budget cycle, and legacy infrastructure isn’t aging gracefully. When 911 dispatch, …
In my role at Veeam, I have the privilege of working closely with state, local, and education (SLED) organizations across the U.S. Every day, I hear first-hand the challenges IT teams face including tight budgets, aging infrastructure, rising cyberthreats, and the constant pressure to meet compliance mandates. It’s not easy. In fact, with 87% of …
Safeguarding Public Sector Data: Veeam’s Blueprint for SLED Resilience Read More »
Key Takeaways Mandatory reporting is now standard. New regulations like DORA, NIS2, and HIPAA updates require organizations to report cyber incidents—sometimes within just 72 hours—to maintain transparency and avoid penalties. 72-hour incident response windows are achievable, but only with preparation. Meeting tight timelines demands documented IR plans, defined workflows, cross-functional coordination, and automated detection tools. …
What if you paid the ransom and your data was still destroyed? For many organizations, this is the nightmare scenario: you think you’ve negotiated your way out of a ransomware attack, you’ve paid the ransom demanded, and you’ve waited for the promised decryption tool. But when you think your data is safe and the ordeal …
Dangerous Tools in Clumsy Hands: Lessons from the VanHelsing Ransomware Leak Read More »
In today’s enterprise IT landscape, organizations are challenged to maximize performance, control costs and drive efficiencies across their virtual environments. Additionally, migrating to a new hypervisor is a complex and costly process. It involves much more than simply replacing software—it demands thorough planning and significant investment across multiple areas, such as: Feature set and functionality …
Driving Enterprise Efficiency: VMWare Rightsizing Powered by Veeam ONE and Pure1 Read More »
Key Takeaways: Defining a MVB/MVC state ensures organizations can quickly restore the most critical systems and processes after a cyberattack. Industry frameworks and compliance rules like NIST, CSF, or DORA all require this information. Veeam accelerates recovery to an MVB/MVC state through backup, clean room testing, and more features to then fully recover. New …
Today, I’m happy to share that Automated Reasoning checks, a new Amazon Bedrock Guardrails policy that we previewed during AWS re:Invent, is now generally available. Automated Reasoning checks helps you validate the accuracy of content generated by foundation models (FMs) against a domain knowledge. This can help prevent factual errors due to AI hallucinations. The …
AWS is committed to bringing you the most advanced foundation models (FMs) in the industry, continuously expanding our selection to include groundbreaking models from leading AI innovators so that you always have access to the latest advancements to drive your business forward. Today, I am happy to announce the availability of two new OpenAI models …
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), a new AWS service that lets you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). With Amazon EVS, you can deploy fully functional VCF environments in just hours using a guided workflow, while running your …
Introducing Amazon Elastic VMware Service for running VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS Read More »
Cybersecurity is a moving target, and as organizations increasingly rely on Microsoft 365, Entra ID has become the latest battleground in the war on information security. In our recent webinar, “The Overlooked Risk in Your Microsoft 365 Defense: Identity Protection”, Veeam expert Karinne Bessette and industry leader Joseph Carson explored the real-world risks organizations face, …
