Veeam Completes Acquisition of Securiti AI to Create the Industry’s First Trusted Data Platform for Accelerating Safe AI at Scale

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 11, 2025--

Veeam ® Software, the #1 global leader by market share in Data Resilience, today announced the completion of its $1.725 billion acquisition of Securiti AI, the recognized leader in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), privacy, governance and AI trust.

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The combination brings together the world’s leading Data Resilience platform – trusted by over 550,000 customers and 82% of the Fortune 500 – with the industry’s most advanced data security, governance and AI Trust platform. Together, they form the first unified and trusted Data Platform: one system to see, secure, govern, and recover all data at AI speed.

The New Reality: AI Moves Fast. Trust Must Move Faster.

“AI investment is exploding, yet nearly 90% of enterprise initiatives fail because the data powering AI cannot be trusted,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam. “Safe AI at scale requires more than great models – it demands trusted, governed, recoverable data. Veeam already leads the world in Data Resilience – unmatched in share, global footprint and innovation. By combining that foundation with Securiti AI’s leadership across DSPM, privacy, governance, and AI trust, we are delivering the first platform that can see everything, secure everything, and recover anything across the entire data estate.”

AI has transformed previously dormant unstructured data into a source of competitive advantage - but also into a fast-moving, high-stakes risk surface. Fragmented security, governance, and protection tools are too slow for machine-speed data access and AI agent behavior.

Together, Veeam and Securiti AI will give customers:

This is resilience, security, governance, and privacy united to make AI safe, compliant, and auditable at scale.

Veeam will welcome 600 Securiti AI employees, expanding its global expertise in AI security, DSPM, privacy engineering, and compliance. Rehan Jalil, Securiti AI founder and CEO, joins Veeam as President of Security and AI.

“We’re excited to welcome the Securiti AI team,” Eswaran added. “Together, we now deliver the only platform that unifies Data Resilience, security, privacy, governance, and AI trust – giving customers complete control over their data and the confidence to accelerate into the era of intelligent systems.”

Jalil added, “We are thrilled to join forces with Veeam. Together, we will empower customers with a unified command center to understand, secure, recover, and unlock the full potential of their entire data estate. This is about enabling safe AI at scale - giving organizations the confidence to innovate fearlessly while protecting their most valuable asset.”

Why This Matters Now

AI adoption has turned unstructured data, which is 90% of enterprise data 1 and projected to triple by 2029 2, into both a strategic asset and a new class of risk. Meanwhile, most AI failures are driven by incomplete, inconsistent, or ungoverned data, and cyber threats are intensifying at AI speed.

The unified Veeam and Securiti AI platform gives customers real-time visibility, security, governance, and recovery across all data – production, backups, AI pipelines, cloud, on-premises – at the velocity of AI.

What the Unified Platform Will Deliver

Organizations will be able to:

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Supporting Quotes

“The completion of Veeam’s acquisition of Securiti AI marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of enterprise data resilience and AI governance. Uniting data security posture management with data protection can help organizations implement AI initiatives with trusted, compliant, and recoverable data. This acquisition empowers organizations to unlock the value of their entire data ecosystem – including structured and unstructured data in both production and secondary environments – allowing them to innovate quickly while mitigating risk from both insider threats and external attacks.” – Jennifer Glenn, Research Director for the IDC Security and Trust Group

“Securiti AI joined HPE’s Unleash AI program in 2024 to help customers innovate safely on HPE Private Cloud AI, and today, we’re proud to see that commitment recognized through Veeam’s acquisition. This milestone not only underscores the strength of HPE’s Unleash AI partner ecosystem, but further ensures our customers are receiving robust data security, privacy, and governance enabled by Veeam and Securiti AI’s combined capabilities.” – Patrick Osborne, SVP of Technology Acceleration for Hybrid Cloud at HPE

About Veeam Software

Veeam®, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes every business should be able to bounce forward after a disruption with the confidence and control of all their data whenever and wherever they need it.​ Veeam calls this radical resilience, and we’re obsessed with creating innovative ways to help our customers achieve it.

Veeam solutions are purpose-built for powering data resilience by providing data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. ​With Veeam, IT and security leaders rest easy knowing that their apps and data are protected and always available across their cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments.

Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500, that trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. ​Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.

Why are the majority of AI projects failing?

According to Data Resilience leader Veeam, AI initiatives are stalling because the data feeding them can’t be trusted.

How can you ensure the success of your AI projects?

By eliminating the challenge of managing fragmented data across the organization, AI projects are more likely to succeed. Organizations need a unified command center to fully control and understand all of their data, as well as secure it with near-zero data loss or business downtime, and the ability to recover and roll back their data and AI with precision.

How can organizations achieve trusted and secure AI adoption at scale?

Through the industry’s first unified data platform - combining data resilience, security, privacy, and governance - Veeam will enable organizations to adopt AI safely and confidently at scale.

What advantages do customers gain from Veeam’s acquisition with Securiti AI?

Customers will benefit from Veeam’s acquisition of Securiti AI through unified visibility by gaining a comprehensive view of their entire data landscape to streamline management, improve data quality, and support effective decision-making.

1https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/big-data-analytics-market-106179

2https://www.statista.com/statistics/871513/worldwide-data-created/?srsltid=AfmBOoonnH5f5oRb54qNo127QeuH6Q7TPtd2tEbiAR2ESvi__ZOJSW5F

Veeam Software completes its $1.725 billion acquisition of Securiti AI. Together, they form the first unified and trusted Data Platform: one system to see, secure, govern, and recover all data at AI speed. Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam, welcomes 600 Securiti AI employees and Rehan Jalil, Securiti AI founder and CEO, as President of Security and AI at Veeam.

The “Architects of AI” were named Time's person of the year for 2025 on Thursday, with the magazine citing this year as when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view" with no turning back.

“For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year,” Time said in a social media post.

The magazine was deliberate in selecting people — the “individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI” — rather than the technology itself, though there would have been some precedent for that.

“We’ve named not just individuals but also groups, more women than our founders could have imagined (though still not enough), and, on rare occasions, a concept: the endangered Earth, in 1988, or the personal computer, in 1982,” wrote Sam Jacobs, the editor-in-chief, in an explanation of the choice. “The drama surrounding the selection of the PC over Apple’s Steve Jobs later became the stuff of books and a movie.”

One of the cover images resembling the “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photograph from the 1930s shows eight tech leaders sitting on the beam: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind division Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, who launched her own startup World Labs last year.

Another cover image shows scaffolding surrounding the giant letters “AI” made to look like computer componentry.

It made sense for Time to anoint AI because 2025 was the year that it shifted from “a novel technology explored by early adopters to one where a critical mass of consumers see it as part of their mainstream lives,” Thomas Husson, principal analyst at research firm Forrester, said by email.

The magazine noted AI company CEOs' attendance at President Donald Trump's inauguration this year at the Capitol as a herald for the prominence of the sector.

“This was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back or opting out,” Jacobs wrote.

AI was a leading contender for the top slot, according to prediction markets, along with Huang and Altman. Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope whose election this year followed the death of Pope Francis, was also considered a contender, with Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani topping lists as well.

Trump was named the 2024 person of the year by the magazine after his winning his second bid for the White House, succeeding Taylor Swift, who was the 2023 person of the year.

The magazine's selection dates from 1927, when its editors have picked the person they say most shaped headlines over the previous 12 months.

Associated Press writers Matt O'Brien in Cupertino, California, and Kelvin Chan in London contributed to this article.

A sign for Time magazine is displayed outside the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Donald King)