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Reading Time: 8 minutesThe Veeam Managed Hardened Repository is a bootable ISO based on Rocky Linux 9.2 (Blue Onyx) distribution preconfigured by Veeam. The idea is to dramatically simplify the provisioning experience and improve the security of the hardened repository, with a solutionpre-hardened out of the box with all advanced security settings already applied. This because immutability may be not enough if you configure your repository in a wrong way!
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (VHRISO) is a Managed Hardened Repository delivered as bootable ISO with a Rocky Linux distribution preconfigured by Veeam. The idea is to dramatically simplify the provisioning experience while eliminating (or at least reducing) the need for any Linux expertise. But also have an OS pre-hardened out of the box with all advanced security settings already applied. This because immutability may be not enough if you configure your repository in a wrong way! Recommendations are based on Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) created and maintained by the Defense Information Systems Agency […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesVeeam Threat Hunter is a new feature introduced in Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 that provides the speed of YARA scans and the breadth of malware detection of a classic antivirus. Note: this function is able to scan backups only for VMs with Windows guest OS and without any file or volume encryption at guest level (like Bitlocker). But how fast it is? In the Veeam Community somebody declares 3x-6x faster in testing depending on the contents being scanned when testing against Windows Defender.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring the last IT Press Tour #59, Antoine Simkine from DigiFilm Corporation has presented they unique solution called DigiFilm ARCHIFLIX. It’s an interestin approach on store data on a movie film support using PIXA (Digital Visual Codes on Film) encoding.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany customers are using backup tools to identify potential dormant threats in their environment and Veeam Backup & Replication adds a lot of malware detection methods starting with v 12. Whether through periodic manual spot-checks, continuous scheduled backup scans (for example with SureBackup), or alert-driven scans, risks can be uncovered without adding overhead to production environments while allowing for a fast response from security teams. However, one of the challenges with searching for threats is knowing what to look for.
Reading Time: 7 minutesVeeam Backup & Replication 12.3 (build 12.3.0.310) has been recently released and it’s already available for download and fix some security issues. But before upgrade to this version, it’s better to read carefully the related release notes and the upgrade guide.
Reading Time: 6 minutesVeeam has just released the Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 version. For a list of all news see the what’s new document, the relase notes and the Veeam web page. It adds new workload supports and new interesting features, expecially in the security area.
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