Architecture on 24xSiempre

vScan Vulnerability Scanner 2.0

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

vScan 2.0, open-source app to scan Veeam Backup & Replication restore points with Trivy, Grype and Jadi. Lifecycle, CISA KEV, PDF reports.

JADI Scanner

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Something I’ve been working on for several months and that is finally taking shape is Jadi, a vulnerability scanner specifically designed to analyze mounted backups and filesystems. The name is no coincidence JADI stands for my kid’s initials, so this project holds a special meaning for me beyond the technical side. In this post I’ll walk you through what it’s all about, why I built it, how it works under the hood, and what’s coming next.

Veeam Decoys - Early Detection

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are always looking for ways to better protect our data protection infrastructure. Recent investigations and evidence of ransomware attacks have revealed something key: attackers are focusing their efforts on compromising and destroying backup solutions. Why? Simple: without backups, organizations are more likely to pay the ransom. This is where Veeam Decoys comes in, an open source project I developed some time ago to help detect lateral movements (TA0008) and service discovery (TA0007) in your internal network.

Proxmox Lab with ZimaBlade

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

According to the latest news from Veeam, where support for Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) was announced and before the update was released, I started reviewing how to put together a small lab to install Proxmox on physical machines and avoid doing nested virtualization in vSphere. In this post we will see what servers I am using and how this solution works.

Protecting Oracle KVM with Veeam

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this post we will review the configuration of Veeam Backup & Replication and integration with Oracle KVM to protect virtual machines running on this platform. We will also see some important characteristics in relation to disks, types of disks in KVM and how to create disks to obtain Changed Block Tracking in incremental backups.

Incident response plan with NIST and Veeam

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Incident response plan based on NIST 800-61, NIST 800-53r5 and MITRE ATT&CK with Veeam for ransomware protection and resilience.

Which Operating System is More Secure?

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this post, we will review the operating systems most used by organizations in IT environments, whether in the public cloud or local data centers, asking the typical question, which operating system is more secure? Microsoft Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD? Or, from another point of view, what are the protection measures that will be applied to operating systems? Is only Firewall and Antivirus enough? Is it sufficient to disable the SSH service in Linux environments? Is it enough to not use root?

How to use Kasten K10 with Google Anthos

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

One of the architectures that are used in multiple clients with hybrid infrastructure is Google Anthos, a beautiful technology that allows to deploy clusters of Kubernetes in different environments using Google settings Kubernetes Engine, GKE, as well as adding other distributions to Google Anthos from different providers or public clouds. In this post, we will review the Anthos architecture and where to install Kasten K10 to protect applications.

Kasten K10 Authentik

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

One of the characteristics of Kasten K10 most used, is the integration with centralized Authentikation and identity systems, through different protocols, for the management of access to the different clusters of kubernetes using RBAC by means of K10 and/or for the access of K10 Multi-Cluster in environments with multiple clusters of kubernetes. In this post, we will review the easy setup of Authentik and integration with Kasten K10.

How to Install vSphere CSI Driver on RedHat OpenShift 4.x

Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

One of the recurring queries we have lately is how to configure the vSphere CSI Driver in environments OpenShift 4.x without the need to use the operator that VMWare already developed, but that is only supported for production from version 4.10 of OpenShiftTherefore, in this guide we will review how to install and configure the driver in versions prior to 4.10 without the need to use the VMware operator.

Veeam Cloud Connect Performance

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most used platforms to offer remote management services, backup, disaster recovery, among others is Veeam Cloud Connect with Veeam Service Provider Console, which enable service providers to offer multiple data protection options. In addition, there is Veeam Cloud Connect for Enterprise that allows large companies to offer services internally according to the needs of their business. In this post we will review a simple configuration to improve the performance of receiving data.

Veeam Agent for Solaris and Veeam 11a

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In this post we will review one of the new features in the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication 11a which has been recently released and includes console management of Veeam Backup & Replication for Unix agents, Veeam Agent for Solaris and Veeam Agent for AIX.

Veeam Immutable Repository with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In this post, we will review installing an Immutable repository from Veeam With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we previously reviewed an application for Ubuntu called VeeamHubRepo, which allows us to easily set up an immutable repository on Ubuntu Linux. Now we will review how to do the configuration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with a small script for the configuration of the repository automatically and in an easy to use way.

Best practices Veeam Oracle RMAN plugin

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In this post we will review the best practices when installing, configuring and managing Veeam Plugin for Oracle RMAN, based on the experience of multiple installations and revisions in different companies of various sizes. Including simple architectures, as well as complex architectures in high availability with Oracle RAC on different platforms x86, SPARC, Power. The objective of this post is to try to maintain a standard configuration and tasks to perform to maintain an ideal environment for the protection of Oracle data. In addition, this post includes a guide to update to the new version of backup files generated by the Plugin in its latest release.

Veeam Capacity Tier Oracle Cloud Object Storage

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Lately some people have asked me if Veeam supports or works with the Oracle Cloud Object Storage service, to configure it in Veeam Capacity Tier and since in the previous post we talked about Oracle, in this post we will see how to integrate the Oracle Cloud Object Storage service with a Veeam Scale-Out Backup Repository or SOBR and demonstrate the benefits of having a multi-cloud mobility solution.