Veeam Software has announced plans to acquire Securiti AI for US$1.725 billion, marking a major step in unifying data resilience with data security, privacy, and AI governance. The move is aimed at helping enterprises better understand, secure, recover, and unlock the value of their data to support trustworthy AI adoption.
Strengthening data resilience and AI trust
Veeam, a global leader in data resilience, said the acquisition will give organisations a single platform to manage and protect data across hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments. By combining Veeam’s data protection expertise with Securiti AI’s Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and AI trust capabilities, the company seeks to address the growing complexity of managing fragmented data spread across applications, clouds, and endpoints.
With this integration, chief information, security, and data officers will gain a centralised command centre to monitor, control, and recover all enterprise data with minimal disruption. The joint offering is expected to enhance data accuracy, governance, and recovery capabilities while ensuring compliance and security for AI-driven operations.
Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam, said the partnership signals a fundamental shift in how companies handle data in the era of artificial intelligence. “We’ve entered a new era for data. It’s no longer about just protecting data from cyber threats and unforeseen disasters; it’s also about identifying all your data, ensuring it’s governed and trusted to power AI transparently,” he said. “By combining the market-leading strengths of Veeam and Securiti AI, we bring those capabilities together in a single solution to help customers understand, secure, recover, and rollback, and unleash their data to drive new business value.”
Addressing the data challenge behind failed AI projects
The announcement comes amid growing pressure on organisations to make their data AI-ready. Studies suggest that 80 to 90 percent of AI projects fail, largely due to poor data quality, lack of governance, and privacy concerns. Unstructured data such as emails, documents, and customer interactions—making up as much as 90 percent of enterprise information—often remain unused or unsecured.
Traditional data management methods, which rely on separate tools for security and governance, struggle to keep pace with evolving threats and regulations. The integration of Securiti AI’s technologies into Veeam’s platform aims to solve this by bringing all data security and resilience controls under one unified system.
“Enterprise AI is simply not possible without data security,” said Rehan Jalil, CEO at Securiti AI. “Securiti AI solves that and enables the safe use of data and AI. Bringing together our unique capabilities with Veeam creates a new value proposition for customers with one data command centre delivering data resilience, DSPM, privacy, governance, and AI trust for your entire data estate.”
Creating a unified data command centre
Securiti AI’s flagship product, the Data Command Centre, will form the foundation of this integration. The platform leverages a knowledge graph to connect data intelligence and security controls across hybrid multi-cloud environments. Its agentic AI framework automates key functions such as data classification, access control, and compliance monitoring, while its Gencore AI module supports secure enterprise AI search.
Following the acquisition, Jalil will join Veeam as President of Security and AI. He previously founded several companies, including Elastica, which was acquired by Blue Coat and later by Symantec, where he led the company’s fastest-growing cloud security division. Jalil also founded WiChorus, acquired by Tellabs, and began his career at Sun Microsystems developing early multicore GPUs.
Industry analysts see the merger as a strategic move to close the gap between data security and resilience in the age of AI. Paul Stringfellow, Senior Analyst for Security and Risk at GigaOm, said, “Together, these platforms bridge the gap between security, governance, compliance, and resilience, enabling organisations to achieve a comprehensive, context-rich understanding of their data. This synergy allows for the identification of what data is truly important, how it is being used, who has access to it, and why – all critical insights for applying precise, effective controls that proactively defend against risk, ensure compliance, and support robust governance.”
The acquisition is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2025, subject to regulatory approvals. After closing, Veeam will continue to offer Securiti AI’s Data Command Centre alongside its existing product line, with new integrations to follow.
