These unprecedented times have forced companies to rapidly adopt remote working environments and cloud technologies to maintain business continuity. As a result, more business-critical data is being stored in the cloud, making a day-to-day backup solution more important than ever.
Microsoft’s service agreement recommends you regularly backup your data using third-party services
Email, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes, journals, public folders
Site Collections, subsites, lists, folders, files, versions
Full account, folders, files, versions
Conversations, Calendar, Files, Notebook, Modern Team Sites
Snapshots of your Microsoft 365 data are automatically saved up to six times a day, with no storage limits, overages, or additional installations. Automated discovery enables you to immediately start backing up new tenants as they are added.
Data never leaves Microsoft Azure, equipping you with all Azure’s built-in security and data governance measures. Additionally, your data is encrypted with 256-bit encryption at-rest and 128-bit encryption in-transit.
Perform full, granular, and point-in-time restore options with the click of a button. This empowers you to mitigate data loss events, bad actors, and service outages on-premises and in the cloud.
Having data in a cloud-based SaaS solution like Microsoft 365 doesn’t necessarily protect you from threats. In order to truly protect your data in the cloud – especially in an era of increased remote work scenarios – you need a cloud backup solution. Data loss can occur from any number of causes – from accidental deletion to malicious attacks like viruses and ransomware. Furthermore, Microsoft’s own recommendation is for end users to leverage a 3rd party data protection solution like Cloud Backup to extend the native data retention policies of Microsoft 365. With a solution like Cloud Backup, small business customers can thus quickly and accurately recover from unfortunate data loss incidents involving this productivity data with minimal disruption, mitigating possible data loss costs.
Using cloud-based services can offer customers significant advantages with regards to scalability, cost, productivity, and efficiency, among others. However, the cloud still poses security risks for users, as viruses, ransomware, and other data breach risks can still impact user data in the cloud. In fact, analysts point to the fact that 32% of businesses are impacted by data loss in the cloud at some point, with the most common causes being user error (64% of cases) and malicious attacks (20%). With the increase in remote working environments, because of the COVID-19 outbreak, phishing scams have increased significantly. In a single week, Google reported an average of 18 million COVID-19 phishing emails sent per day.
