Microsoft 365 is Not Automatically Protected
As organisations increasingly move data into cloud-based applications, many believe that traditional best practices such as data backup are outdated. After all, SaaS applications are always available, accessible from anywhere, and highly redundant, so why is backup necessary?
An astonishing 1 in 3 companies report losing data stored in cloud-based applications. The single leading cause of this data loss? End-user error. Other common culprits include:
• Malware or ransomware attacks • Malicious end-user activity • Accidental data overwrites • Cancelled account subscriptions
With more and more companies depending on Microsoft 365 for collaboration and business operations, these risks are impossible to ignore. Backup is just as important in the cloud as it is in traditional, on-premises IT systems. An independent, third-party, SaaS backup solution is the best way to protect organisations against the most common data loss pitfalls.
Protecting Your Data in the Cloud —A Shared Responsibility
Many organisations mistakenly believe that Microsoft 365 data is automatically protected. But, that’s only partially true. Microsoft does ensure that it won’t lose your data, but it does not make any guarantees about restoring data if you do.
In other words, Microsoft 365 data is as vulnerable to accidental or malicious deletion, ransomware and other types of data loss.
SaaS vendors like Microsoft promote a “shared responsibility” model. They are clear in recommending providers and end-users pursue third-party solutions to ensure they meet data protection, business continuity, compliance, and security requirements beyond Microsoft 365’s limited native recovery capabilities.
Why SaaS Protection for Microsoft 365?
Trusted Backup
Both you and your IT provider should have complete confidence that your Microsoft 365 data is protected with a reliable, robust solution designed to reduce risk and time needed to manage backups.
• Automated, continuous backups: Protect Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams with 3x daily backups or perform additional backups as needed at any time.
• Streamlined onboarding: Your IT provider should have critical cloud data protected in a matter of minutes with a simplified setup and an easy click-through onboarding process.
• Flexible retention: Not all client environments are the same. That’s why SaaS Protection should offer different data retention options to meet your individual needs.
• Intuitive, user-friendly management portal: Quickly and easily determine the number of licenses in use and view backup status all from a single pane of glass.
Fast & Effortless Restore
• Point-in-time restore and export: Your IT provider should be able to quickly restore or export data from a specific point-in-time before a data loss event occurred. • Non-destructive restore process: You should be able to quickly identify and recover individual objects or entire accounts with related records and folder structure intact. • Cross-user restore: The ability to restore data from one Microsoft 365 user account into another. • Retain user data: Save money and effort by preserving inactive Microsoft 365 user data with SaaS Protection for as long as you need it. • Easy export: Export entire accounts or specific items in standard file formats.
Data Protection and Compliance
Balance security and transparency with powerful controls and robust user lifecycle management. Protect valuable business data from accidental or malicious acts.
• Security and compliance: SaaS Protection backs up data in compliance with Service Organisation Control (SOC 1/ SSAE 16 and SOC 2 Type II) reporting standards and supports your HIPAA and GDPR compliance needs.
• Ransomware protection: Roll-back data to a point-intime before ransomware attacks.
• Custom data retention: Keep data indefinitely or adjust retention settings to meet compliance standards.
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