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Maximizing Backup Security:  Veeam-Wazuh Integration Syslog I previously wrote a blog post on custom Integration for Wazuh & Veeam. This allowed any rules that were triggered or matched in Wazuh from multiple sources , to initiate a call to Veeam via the incident API this would initiate a Quick backup to preserve data in a on-going attack & would flag any existing backup images within the time frame as Infected or containing malicious code. Link here :  http://www.mritsurgeon.co.za/2024/01/orchestrating-cybersecurity-resilience.html  In this post here i take it a little bit further and we look at integrating Veeam events via Syslog into Wazuh. In Veeam V12.1 Veeam added syslog integration for SIEM , so that Security professionals or anyone monitoring a SOC can see events around the backup infrastructure. Why is this important: Malicious actors generally target backup infrastructure to ensure organizations have no ability to recover post the rest of their exploit / ki

  I setup a Veeam Agent for Linux on ChatGPT Think Everyone is Familiar with what Chat GPT is , I previously wrote a blog on how to use ChatGPT in your everyday as a Veeam Engineer. In doing so and continued experimenting with the platform I also realized you can get ChatGPT to emulate an operating system terminal, in this short post I will show you how I got it to emulate a Linux Server that had a Veeam Agent for Linux Pre installed.  

Restore Database using a Native SQL Query from Veeam Backup & Replication V11 Backups. I Decided to write the following "how to" based on a request through the customer community. The question posed was “ how can you use Veeam Database publish functions from a SQL query rather then the purpose built Veeam Explorer for SQL GUI tool ? “

Veeam Replicate to Azure with PowerShell & API. I’ve done a previous post on restoring VMs into azure using PowerShell Here: http://www.mritsurgeon.co.za/2020/02/restoring-multiple-vms-to-azure-part-2.html I wanted to further enhance this with Azure so that a scheduled script would remove older VM and restore newer VM, I additionally wanted there to be a revert option to older version of the VM through a VM snapshot.

Using Veeam Backup for Office 365 as DataSet for PowerBI using PowerBi Query.  I did a previous post on a self-service Dashboard which is built upon Veeam’s VBO APIs here: http://www.mritsurgeon.co.za/2020/07/single-install-script-for-veeam-backup.html I wanted to see if there was a way to use GET API method to share data with PowerBi as a data source. I previously did a post on Veeam Backup & Replication using its config SQL DB as Data Source for PowerBI here:

Single Install Script for Veeam Backup O365 Self Service Dashboard with Windows Web Server. A colleague Niels Engelen, Principal Analyst, Product Management created a great self-service web portal project that allows, customers & cloud providers to give access to O365 backups so that a user or customer may restore & manage his own O365 backup data.

Veeam Data Re-use All Backups Continued…… So, this is a Continuation of Blog post PART 3 of Data Re-use blog series, Part 3 Here   addressed Business Intelligence with Veeam Re-Use API.

  Veeam V10 Data Re-use (Business Intelligence) So, this is a Continuation of Blog post PART 2 of Data Re-use blog series, Part two here addressed Security Analysis with Veeam Re-Use API. Business intelligence  What is Business intelligence? As Per Wikipedia: According to Forrester Research, business intelligence is "a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information used to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making."

Veeam V10 Data Re-use (Security Analysis) So, this is a Continuation of Blog post PART 1 of Data Re-use blog series, Part one   Here  addressed Data Classification with Veeam Re-Use API. Security Analysis I Don’t need to stress the importance of security in infrastructure and its utmost importance in securing backup data. Backup data has been a key target for hackers and ransomware syndicates in because of this we must ensure that our backups are secure and hold no vulnerabilities. Most cases Only backup infrastructure is hardened and what is overlooked is data contained within backup aka the backup data.

Veeam with Microsoft PowerBI Creating a backup Statistics & analytics Dashboard with PowerBI With some time at home during lock down I decided to play round with PowerBi & learn. The easiest start for me was to plug this into a SQL database, looking around for a Data Set I thought what not easier than use the Veeam Config Database in my lab as its already holding rich data that I could transform into a Dashboard. I also have an deep knowledge into backup and can understand how & why to transform the Data Set. This was my first Time using PowerBi so bear with me .. First, I downloaded and installed PowerBI Desktop to my Veeam Backup Server (seemed easiest as data set was local to the Tool)