Veeam Buys Securiti AI in $1.7B Deal

In a landmark move reshaping the data management industry, Veeam Software has finalized a deal to acquire Securiti AI for a staggering $1.725 billion. This strategic acquisition merges Veeam’s established data resilience expertise with Securiti AI’s advanced capabilities in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), privacy, governance, and AI trust. The unified platform will empower organizations to gain a complete view of their entire data landscape, ensuring robust security, precise recovery options, and the ability to confidently leverage data for artificial intelligence initiatives.

The merger directly tackles the pervasive issue of fragmented data sprawled across applications, cloud services, SaaS platforms, endpoints, and backup systems. CIOs, CISOs, and CDOs will gain access to a single, unified command center, providing comprehensive control and insight over all data assets. This integrated approach promises near-zero data loss, minimal business disruption, and the precise ability to recover, rollback, and secure both data and AI models, thereby accelerating safe AI innovation.

This creates a single control plane that spans both production and secondary data, allowing enterprises to uniformly manage their entire data estate. It effectively combines Veeam’s proven data resilience with Securiti AI’s specialized strengths in DSPM, data privacy, and establishing trust in AI systems.

The timing of this consolidation is critical. Many organizations struggle to extract value from the vast majority of their data, which is unstructured, encompassing emails, documents, and customer interactions that constitute 70-90% of all enterprise data. Compounding this challenge, cyber threats are intensifying, regulatory requirements are becoming stricter, and AI projects are frequently stalling because the underlying data cannot be fully trusted.

Industry research suggests a startling 80-90% of AI projects ultimately fail, with many of these failures rooted in data-related problems. Issues with accuracy, data lineage, permissions, identity management, and privacy concerns are common culprits. Legacy approaches that rely on a patchwork of isolated tools for data security and management are ill-equipped to handle new AI-specific threats. This often forces IT and security teams into difficult compromises between security, risk management, and the need for business agility. The combined force of Veeam and Securiti AI is designed to eliminate these trade-offs by delivering a centralized command center for all data operations.

“We are witnessing a fundamental shift in the role of data,” stated Anand Eswaran, CEO of Veeam. “The focus is no longer solely on protecting data from cyberattacks and disasters. It’s equally about discovering all your data, ensuring it is properly governed, and making certain it is trustworthy enough to transparently fuel AI. This data trust issue is the primary reason AI initiatives fall short. By uniting the market-leading strengths of Veeam and Securiti AI, we are delivering these essential capabilities in one integrated solution. This helps customers understand, secure, recover, and ultimately unleash their data to generate new business value.”

Rehan Jalil, CEO of Securiti AI, echoed this sentiment, noting, “Enterprise-grade AI cannot succeed without a solid foundation of data security. Our technology solves that fundamental problem, enabling the safe and responsible use of data and AI. Merging our unique capabilities with Veeam, the global leader in data resilience, creates an unprecedented value proposition for customers. They will have one data command center that delivers data resilience, DSPM, privacy, governance, and AI trust for their entire data landscape. Veeam’s global reach and innovative spirit, combined with our technology and intelligence, will provide customers with unmatched business resilience and security to fully unlock the potential of AI.”

Securiti AI is widely recognized as the pioneer of the Data Command Center concept. This platform is powered by a sophisticated knowledge graph that unifies data intelligence and security controls across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Its built-in and extensible agentic AI framework automates core functions for data intelligence, security, and control. Additionally, its Gencore AI module facilitates safe and secure enterprise AI search capabilities.

Upon completion of the transaction, Rehan Jalil is set to join Veeam in the role of President of Security and AI.

Industry analyst Paul Stringfellow, a Senior Analyst for Security & Risk at GigaOm, commented on the strategic fit. “Integrating Securiti AI’s sophisticated data security platform with Veeam’s resilient data protection platform marks a significant evolution in how organizations will protect and govern their information in this new AI-driven era.”

“Together, these platforms effectively close the divide between security, governance, compliance, and resilience,” Stringfellow added. “This enables organizations to develop a comprehensive, context-rich understanding of their data. This synergy makes it possible to identify which data is truly critical, how it is being utilized, who has access to it, and for what purpose. These are all vital insights for applying precise and effective controls that proactively mitigate risk, guarantee compliance, and support strong governance frameworks.”

(Source: HelpNet Security)