Veeam Software has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Securiti AI for $1.725 billion. The company’s press statement added that this is a move to create a single command centre spanning data resilience, data security posture management, privacy, governance and AI trust across both production and secondary data. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter, subject to regulatory approvals.
The statement added that combining its recovery and rollback strengths with Securiti AI’s DSPM and data governance will help CIOs, CISOs and CDOs discover and understand their full data estate, enforce controls with near-zero data loss or downtime and safely accelerate AI initiatives that often stall due to data quality, lineage, permissions and privacy gaps.
“We’ve entered a new era for data. It’s no longer about just protecting data from cyber threats and unforeseen disasters,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam, adding that customers need governed, trusted data to power AI transparently and at scale. “By combining the market-leading strengths of Veeam and Securiti AI, we help customers understand, secure, recover and rollback, and unleash their data to drive new business value.”
Rehan Jalil, CEO at Securiti AI, said enterprise AI is “not possible without data security.” Post-close, Jalil will join Veeam as President of Security and AI. Securiti’s Data Command Centre – built on a knowledge graph with an agentic AI framework and an enterprise AI search module – will be offered alongside Veeam’s portfolio, with integrated capabilities to be announced soon.
Industry analysts say the tie-up reflects how AI programmes demand tight alignment between security, governance, compliance and resilience. Paul Stringfellow, Senior Analyst at GigaOm, said the combined platforms provide a “context-rich understanding” of data, including what matters, how it’s used, who can access it, and why, enabling precise controls that reduce risk, support compliance, and allow organisations to innovate with confidence.
Veeam framed the acquisition against a backdrop of surging attack velocity, tightening regulation and the dominance of unstructured data like emails, documents and customer interactions that represent the bulk of enterprise information, which has historically been hard to harness for AI. The company cited industry estimates that a large majority of AI projects fail, often due to unresolved data issues.
As part of the transaction, Morgan Stanley advised Securiti AI, while JPMorgan Chase Bank provided financing to Veeam. Veeam also flagged a VeeamON Global Launch virtual event on 19 November, where it plans to share more on its roadmap.
