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:
