Maturity Model
The Resilience Reality Check
The Data Resilience Maturity Model (DRMM) helps organizations benchmark resilience, find maturity gaps, and prioritize improvements in backup, recovery, and security.
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Why Does Maturity Matter
Your Resilience Plan, Made Actionable
Whether you're recovering from a breach or preparing for the next one, success takes more than tools. The Data Resilience Maturity Model (DRMM) works backward from real-world outcomes, highlighting industry best practices to help you align teams, benchmark progress, and scale resilience.
Expose Hidden Gaps in Cyber Resilience
Uncover blind spots across people, process, and tech before they threaten uptime, compromise data, or erode customer trust.
Align Resilience to Business and Compliance Goals
Benchmark against peers to drive ROI, meet regulatory requirements, and secure executive buy-in for step-up improvements.
Accelerate Recovery with a Prescriptive Roadmap
Follow a vendor-neutral framework co-developed with industry leaders to improve recovery speed, reduce risk, and build operational confidence.
From Blind Spots to Bright Spots
The payoff is clear: resilience improvements drive results when orgs focus on what really matters.
IT’s Blind Spot
30%
of IT leaders overestimate their data resilience vs. peers
Falling Short
74%
of organizations miss key data resilience best practices
Top CIO Priority
#2
Data resilience ranks #2 for CIOs, above app and cloud projects
High ROI
$3-$10
for every dollar invested in resilience improvements
Sources: Data Resilience Maturity Model
What is DRMM?
A Model Built for Leaders
Co-developed with McKinsey and validated by industry experts, the DRMM uses real enterprise data and proven patterns to benchmark progress and drive outcomes — not theory.
What Makes DRMM Different
Rooted in What Actually Works
Built on proven patterns from top-performing orgs, DRMM prioritizes impact— not vendor hype or one-size-fits-all solutions.
Built for Real-World Complexity
Designed to function across hybrid, legacy, and multi-vendor environments, where resilience is hardest to achieve.
Comprehensive Industry Coverage
Draws on data from diverse sectors including financial services, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, public sector, and more.
How It Works
How the DRMM Helps You Make Progress
Whether you’ve got the basics in place or a full strategy in motion, the DRMM breaks down what’s working, what’s missing, and where to go next — across people, process, and tech.
People, Process, and Tech Aligned
Most teams focus on tools. The DRMM shifts the lens to how strategy, execution, and infrastructure combine to reduce risk and improve recovery outcomes.
Metrics That Matter to Drive Your Next Move
High-maturity orgs recover faster, lose less data, and cut outage costs. These are more than IT stats – they’re board-level KPIs that shape investment and strategy.
Pinpoint Gaps. Prioritize What’s Next.
Complete a structured assessment to get per-dimension scores, detailed maturity traits, and prescriptive advisory notes grounded in proven best practices.
Check Your Bearings
Get a directional read on your maturity to steer improvement
conversations with your team.
conversations with your team.
Drive Resilience
Who This Model is Built For
Whether you're navigating compliance, consolidating tools, or questioning how resilient your recovery really is, this model helps IT leaders benchmark readiness, align stakeholders, and guide smarter resilience planning.
Built for teams managing risk in regulated, complex environments
Operate in high-stakes environments with compliance demands and no room for downtime? This model meets you there.
Ideal for leaders rethinking or evolving their resilience approach
If you’re questioning what’s working or what’s missing, this will give you clarity without the guesswork.
Great for orgs that feel siloed, scattered, or stretched too thin
When roles, tools, and priorities don’t align, this model helps teams refocus on impact and accountability.
Is Your Company One Outage Away From Chaos?
Dr. George Westerman
Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management
What Outcome-Driven Actually Looks Like
From faster recovery to reduced risk and reclaimed resources, through research we did with McKinsey, these organizations used the DRMM to uncover gaps, strengthen execution, and make measurable improvements that matter to the business.
Lowered Risk, Greater Coverage
A regional healthcare system cut cyber and compliance risk by increasing backup coverage 25% year over year.
$500K Saved Through Recovery Gains
A financial services firm cut MTTR by 20% and reduced manual recovery—saving time, cost, and stress.
From Backup to Big Picture
A global retail company re-assigned 15 IT pros from manual backup to strategic projects by modernizing recovery.
Resources
Insights and Trends
Move from Reactive to Self-Optimizing
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FAQs
What is the Veeam Data Resilience Maturity Model (DRMM)?
Veeam Data Platform allows organizations to protect their data, from backups to clean and fast recovery Veeam allows you to recover quickly from a ransomware attack. In addition to recovery, Veeam offers a secure-by-design platform with an increasing number of security features in the platform such as MFA, encryption, and least-privilege access; to best-in-class threat detection capabilities to protect your data, from malware detection to proactive threat assessment identifying adversary activity.
How does the DRMM assessment work and what do I receive?
You complete an online, multi-dimensional self-assessment that measures your data resilience maturity. The results include a custom report benchmarking your organization against over 500 enterprises, highlighting gaps and providing actionable recommendations to strengthen your data protection and business continuity.
Is my data confidential when I take the DRMM assessment?
Yes. Data collected during the DRMM assessment is strictly confidential, shared only with your Veeam team and yourself unless you explicitly approve otherwise. You’ll have complete access to your results and recommendations.
How are DRMM scores and recommendations determined?
DRMM scores are calculated based on your responses, compared to industry benchmarks from 500+ global organizations. The model weighs your answers across key data resilience dimensions and provides tailored, prioritized improvement steps.
How does DRMM align with industry frameworks like McKinsey’s?
Veeam DRMM is inspired by McKinsey and MIT data resilience frameworks but is uniquely designed by Veeam to address today’s evolving threats. It leverages extensive research, industry benchmarks, and expert insights for practical, actionable guidance.
Who should participate in a DRMM workshop?
For the best results, a DRMM workshop should include cross-functional leaders—such as CIOs, CISOs, CDOs, and other stakeholders from IT, security, operations, and finance—to ensure a comprehensive and business-aligned resilience strategy.
How does DRMM address industry-specific needs and regulations?
DRMM benchmarks your organization against industry peers, including highly regulated sectors like financial services and healthcare, and provides recommendations that help meet specific regulatory and operational requirements.
How does Veeam DRMM help protect against ransomware and cyber threats?
By identifying gaps in your data resilience strategy, DRMM enables you to proactively mitigate cyber risks, recover faster from ransomware attacks, and implement modern security practices like zero trust with Veeam’s advanced solutions.
How do I get started with a Veeam DRMM assessment or workshop?
Contact your Veeam account manager or visit our website to schedule a DRMM assessment and workshop. Our experts will guide you through the assessment and deliver a tailored roadmap for advancing your organization’s data resilience.
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