Zero-Trust Backup Architecture with Veeam and Rubrik

ZERO-TRUST BACKUP ARCHITECTURE WITH VEEAM & RUBRIK

What happens when ransomware doesn't just attack your servers-but targets the backups you were counting on to save your organization?

A successful backup job is not the same as a successful recovery.

Zero-Trust Backup Architecture with Veeam & Rubrik takes a security-first approach to modern enterprise backup, showing you how to design, protect, test, and operate a recovery environment that can withstand compromised credentials, ransomware, insider threats, infrastructure failures, and destructive cyber incidents.

Starting from first principles, this practical guide explains how backup, disaster recovery, and cyber recovery differ-and how they work together. You will learn how to apply zero-trust principles to backup infrastructure, protect privileged identities, implement MFA and RBAC, enforce least privilege, secure management planes, and create multiple independent recovery paths.

The book then takes you deep into Veeam Backup & Replication and Rubrik, covering secure architecture, immutable backups, retention protection, logical and physical air gaps, encryption, network segmentation, ransomware-resistant storage, recovery verification, APIs, automation, and controlled recovery operations.

You will also learn how to design recovery strategies around RPO, RTO, retention, business requirements, and workload criticality-rather than simply choosing backup schedules or storage capacity.

Most importantly, this book moves beyond theory. Through realistic scenarios, practical exercises, architecture decisions, recovery testing, troubleshooting, clean-room recovery, disaster-recovery planning, and cyber-recovery runbooks, you will learn how to prove that your backups are not merely present-but protected, trustworthy, accessible, and recoverable when your organization needs them most.

Whether you are a system administrator, backup engineer, security professional, infrastructure architect, or IT leader, this book provides a practical foundation for building a resilient enterprise recovery strategy in an era where the backup environment itself has become a critical security boundary.