The Veronese surface in $\mathbb{P}^5$ is indeed the only secant defective surface that is not a cone. This is a classical (and non-trivial) result by F. Severi, see p. 6 and Theorem 10.1 in
Ciliberto, Ciro; Russo, Francesco C. Ciliberto, F. Russo: Varieties with minimal secant degree and linear systems of maximal dimension on surfacesVarieties with minimal secant degree and linear systems of maximal dimension on surfaces, Adv. Math. 200Adv. Math. 200, No. 1, 1-50 (2006). ZBL1086.14043.
ad some of the references cited in the Introduction of the same paper, notably [14, 54, 57].