Secured.22: Backing Up Your Microsoft 365 Environment

Back in the early 1990s I was nearly finished with a 20-page research paper when my hard drive crashed and poof! All that hard work disappeared in a second. Was I aware that everyone should always back up all their work just in case something like this should happen? Yes I was. Had I done it? No. I had not.

I learned my lesson. And over the years, for the most part, so did the rest of the world. Organizations of all kinds have learned to make data protection a standard part of their IT infrastructure. Whether it’s a tape-based system with backups stored off-site, or a hardware or virtual appliance that duplicates to an off-site appliance or to the cloud, or a cloud-hosted SaaS backup solution, nearly everyone uses some kind of backup.

The Microsoft 365 backup backslide

But then something odd happened. Microsoft 365 came along, and it was (is) a huge hit, with adoption quickly skyrocketing. And a surprising number of organizations seem to think that the data they have in the Microsoft cloud doesn’t need to be backed up; or, rather, that it is already adequately backed up by Microsoft.

Big mistake. As attendees learned at last September’s Barracuda virtual customer conference, Secured.22, using a third-party backup solution to protect the data in your Microsoft 365 deployment—including email, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams—is just as important as backup has always been with on-site data storage. It’s strongly recommended by Microsoft itself, right there in the Microsoft 365 Terms of Service.

Get the whole story

Watch this eye-opening session featuring Principal Product Marketing Manager Stasia Hurley and Senior Director, Product Management Chris King as they share crucial insights about

·         How the shared-responsibility model of cloud security applies to Microsoft 365

·         Why modern backup is a critical defense against ransomware attacks

·         How to make sure you have—and practice—a plan for responding to data loss

Here’s a quick clip of Chris outlining five different real-world customer stories that illustrate the many risks to leaving Microsoft 365 data unprotected:

Not all backup systems are created equal

Of course, some backup systems are better than others. Above all, your backup system needs to be highly secure. In the next part of the session, Chris details the key security features that a modern backup system should have, including multi-factor authentication, immutable file storage, air-gapped or offline copies, and more.

Finally, Stasia delivers a detailed explanation of how Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup—a SaaS solution that frees users from both hardware management and software updating—works to ensure that all your Microsoft 365 data is fully protected against loss, whether that loss is intentional, malicious, or accidental.

Back in my grad-student days, I had to find out the importance of backup the hard way. Don’t be like me when it comes to protecting the business-critical data you have in Microsoft 365. Watch this informative session to find out how to do it right.

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