AI Resilience: A New Era of Data Resilience

Data protection used to just be about protecting structured data with the occasional operational restore request, but with that question lurking on everyone's mind, "Can I actually do a mass restore in the event of a natural disaster?" Spoiler alert: the answer was always a definitive maybe. As cyberthreats became the new and far more common disaster the industry evolved with it. Data resilience took center stage, and the ability to prove mass and cyber restore capabilities couldn't be a question anymore. It had to be a proven tested outcome. And now, data has become even more critical in the world of AI. Data is the raw materials to AI. If not properly mined and extracted it can be useless or even dangerous. Enter the third evolution of this industry. AI Resilience!

AI transforms how we use, share, and protect data. The question isn’t just “Is my data safe?” It’s “Can I trust my data to power AI, meet compliance, and drive innovation without risk?” According to Gartner, only 20% of organizations report getting value from their AI tools and 38% say the cost of AI outweighs the benefit. This is because AI projects are only as good as the data we put into them. That’s where Securiti.ai, now part of Veeam, steps in.

Veeam’s acquisition of Securiti.ai is a strategic leap to unify data resilience, security, privacy, and governance into one intelligent platform. Securiti.ai’s Data Command Center is more than a dashboard, it’s a knowledge graph that maps every data asset, user, policy, and risk across hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments. Imagine answering any question about your data. Where it lives, who can access it, what risks exist, and how it’s being used with full context.

What This Means for Existing Veeam Customers:

Ever wonder if you're protecting data that doesn't really need to be backed up? Ever find storage spend is far more than it seems like it should be due to outdated retention policies? Ever wonder what data is most critical to bring back a minimum viable business (MVB).

Securiti.ai answers these questions and more through the below key capabilities:

• Reduce Spend and Risk with Redundant, Obsolete, Trivial (ROT) Analysis: Automatically discover ROT data across structured, unstructured, SaaS and cloud to remove unnecessary data that increase risk and expense to the business.

• Breach Impact Analysis: Better prepare for exfiltration based attacks by classifying sensitive (PII, PHI, PCI, etc.) and critical data to better understand your minimum viable business.

• Regulatory Compliance: Maps controls to frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and the EU AI Act, generating audit-ready reports to reduce manual effort and risk of fine or penalty

What This Means for Veeam+Securiti.ai Customers:

Every organization is trying to increase revenue, reduce costs, or/and minimize risk. Each petabyte of data removed saves up to $500k in storage costs, plus eliminates trivial or obsolete data that exposes risk to the business if breached and exfiltrated. It is critical to remediate data ROT. Feeding data ROT into our AI models and pipelines results in garbage in garbage out as validated by a recent Gartner report highlighting 40% of AI projects will be canceled by 2027. Data is the fuel to AI and ensuring accuracy, precision, and contextualized insights of that data is key to organizations successfully adopting AI.

Key capabilities of Veeam+Securiti AI that can't be found anywhere else:

• Comprehensive Discovery and Remediation: Automatically find shadow, cloud-native, ROT and dark data assets across hundreds of systems—structured, unstructured, and streaming.

• AI-Powered Classification: Uses advanced ML and NLP to classify sensitive data (PII, PHI, PCI, etc.) with high accuracy, reducing false positives and negatives.

• Risk Prioritization: Identifies “toxic combinations”—ordinary conditions that, when combined, create catastrophic risk (think open payroll data + global access + AI model ingestion).

• Orchestrated cross-platform cleanrooms: Orchestrated recovery workflows from natural or cyber disasters cross-platform in an automated, documented and a proven way.

The Bottom Line

AI is moving fast. Regulators are watching. Legacy tools can’t keep up. Veeam + Securiti.ai delivers the only platform that unifies data resilience, security, privacy, governance, and AI trust, giving you the confidence to innovate, comply, and recover at scale.

What do you think? Is AI resilience the future? Comment below!