Veeam Backup Connector

Why This Matters

Ransomware attackers don’t stop at production systems. They target your backup repositories, snapshots, and recovery chains too. Without verifying that those backups remain clean and untampered, you’re left without a clean recovery option. Elastio fills that critical gap. You don’t just check job completion or immutability; you gain an automated control that verifies backups are recoverable and ransomware-free. The integration with Veeam lets you bring that control into your existing backup ecosystem.

Key Capabilities

• Native, agentless integration with Veeam Backup & Replication (on-premises and cloud) via native Veeam APIs.
  
• Scheduled or on-demand behavioural inspections of backup data at scale, detecting ransomware encryption, hidden malware, and insider threats.
  
• Automatic identification of the last known clean recovery point, drastically reducing guesswork during a recovery.
  
• Policy-based alerts and dashboards for risk and compliance teams: track which backup sets are validated, clean, and which require investigation.
  
• Seamless workflow fit: Elastio automatically scans after each Veeam backup job completes, so there’s no disruption to your existing operations.

How It Works (High-Level Architecture)

1. Veeam Backup Server executes scheduled or on-demand backup jobs as usual.
2. Elastio Worker VM (or cluster) connects to Veeam via the native Veeam APIs, inventories backup jobs, and mounts the relevant recovery point.
3. Elastio runs its behavioural ransomware engines on the mounted data, looking for signs of encryption, malware, and tampering.
4. Detailed threat results and forensics are sent into the Elastio SaaS console (and your SIEM): a backup set is marked either Clean / Recovery-Ready or High-Risk / Review Required.
5. Your SOC, IR, or DR team acts on the alerts, and optionally initiates a restore from a validated clean recovery point for fast and clean recovery.  Elastio provides Threat Hunt capabilities, detailed ransomware intelligence, and access to our expert incident response team for forensics.

Deployment Scenarios / Use Cases

Cloud-native & Hybrid Backup Infrastructure
Perfect for organizations using Veeam in cloud, hybrid or on-premises settings. After each Veeam job, Elastio provides continuous assurance of your backup repository recovery health.

Financial Services & Highly Regulated Industries
When proving recoverability matters just as much as backing up, Elastio + Veeam gives you audit-ready evidence that backups are free of ransomware and ready for restore.

Ransomware Response-Readiness
In the event of a ransomware incident, speed and confidence matter. Elastio, integrated with Veeam lets you rapidly identify reusable recovery points, avoiding downtime associated with scanning all recovery points for clean copies.

Setup & Prerequisites

• Veeam version: Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 or later.
• REST API enabled: Ensure the Veeam server’s REST API service is running (default port 9419).
• Service account: Create a dedicated Veeam service account with “Backup Administrator” role for Elastio integration.
• Elastio Worker VM: Minimum spec: 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, 100 GB storage. Supported hypervisors: ESXi, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Proxmox.
• Hypervisor Support: VMware, ESXi, HyperV, Nutanix, Proxmox.

Why Elastio vs Generic Backup Verification?

Backup job completion and immutability checks confirm process, but they don’t detect malicious encryption, hidden malware, and silent tampering of recovery points. Elastio adds behavioural ransomware detection on top of your Veeam backups and gives you proof of the last safe recovery point. That makes this integration a control-centric solution, not just another capability gap to fill.