With DataAI Command Platform, Veeam governs AI data and agents
Veeam expands its positioning from backup to data governance for agent-based artificial intelligence. The company has made available the Veeam DataAI Command Platform, a platform designed to control data, access, identity, security, privacy, and compliance in corporate environments where AI agents operate.
The premise is that AI agents must access corporate data to be useful. However, this access opens a new risk front: exposed sensitive data, excessive privileges, unmanaged identities, SaaS systems, cloud environments, and on-premises conditions that are difficult to monitor holistically.
The platform emerges from Veeam's acquisition of Securiti AI and combines the acquired company's expertise in data security and AI governance with Veeam's experience in data resilience.
Control focuses on the data
The core of the platform is the DataAI Command Graph, a map of data, access, and identities built through more than 300 connectors for cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. The goal is not only to know where the data resides but also to understand which files contain sensitive information, who can access them, and what changes pose a risk.
On this basis, functions for security, governance, compliance, privacy, and resilience integrate. The platform assesses the security posture of data and AI by cross-referencing information on identities, permissions, and recovery capabilities. Control is applied directly at the data source: this way, even an authorized or improperly governed AI agent cannot access sensitive information if that information is protected upstream.
The compliance aspect serves to produce verifiable evidence concerning over 100 regulatory frameworks, including the EU AI Act, DORA, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST, and AI RMF. Privacy is managed with policies applied in real-time based on the user, jurisdiction, and type of data, even in hybrid and multicloud environments where personal information is often distributed across different systems.
Thanks to granular knowledge of the infrastructure, the platform ensures more selective data recovery: it is not necessarily required to restore an entire system, but it is possible to intervene only on what has been compromised or altered anomalously. This logic also includes the first two announced offerings: Veeam Intelligence ResOps for M365, dedicated to Microsoft 365, and the DataAI Resilience Module, designed to bring these capabilities to Veeam Data Platform customers without a new migration.
"The infrastructure to implement AI exists. What is missing is that which guarantees trust. With the DataAI Command Platform, Veeam is building the missing layer that unites resilience, security, governance, compliance, and privacy in a single platform," declares Anand Eswaran, CEO of Veeam. "Today, agents must access data, which means having to open the security perimeter. This implies that the security control point becomes the data itself, and this requires a new trust approach capable of accelerating the safe adoption of AI."