Microsoft 365 is a powerful suite of business productivity applications. But like any
cloud platform, it’s not immune to data loss. Microsoft does not bear responsibility
for the protection and retention of data.
Microsoft ensures the availability of its infrastructure. Still, it recommends that customers assume responsibility for protecting their data in its suite of cloud applications. Beyond Microsoft’s recommendations, organizations using Microsoft 365 often have their own reasons for deploying backup for cloud data.
Whether dictated by federal, state or industry authorities, regulatory mandates are pervasive across all sectors of the economy. Data handling practices are under scrutiny as regulators impose stricter standards and higher fines for falling out of compliance.
Data preservation practices and procedures must follow regulatory guidelines.
So, organizations need to deploy and enforce policies more consistently across their systems. Uniform policies for data retention, recoverability, rectification and deletion are necessary for businesses of all sizes and across all industries. These requirements apply to data whether it’s stored on-premises or in a cloud platform like
Microsoft 365.
Control over backup and retention policy has not historically been a problem with on-premises systems.
More organizations are migrating to the cloud. As a result, they’ve been willing to forego some of the control over backup and retention policy. This is because they lack purpose-built tools for backing up cloud environments.
In an ideal scenario, businesses would have the same granular control over backup and retention policies in the cloud. This control would be as detailed as it is for on-premises systems. Carbonite® Backup for Microsoft 365 is designed to do exactly this.
Microsoft apps are also not immune to ransomware or other malicious external threats.
When files become corrupt, they’re automatically synced in OneDrive. Modern malware often stays hidden while it propagates across different file systems.
The time it takes the business to discover the existence of the malware is often too long. It exceeds the default retention policy. This leaves no safe recovery point to restore from.
Disaster recovery of cloud data presents many of the same challenges as on-premises scenarios.
Disasters come in different forms. IT administrators will always need a range of options for recovering precisely the data they need. Recovering too much data can be just as problematic as not being able to recover enough data.
Carbonite® Backup for Microsoft 365 provides administrators with essential tools. They can recover as much or as little data as necessary. This helps to mitigate a data loss event. This includes granular recovery of files and folders, full site recovery as well as security privileges and file history.