Backup for Microsoft 365: Why you need it

If you attended our virtual customer conference Secured.22 back in September, you may have sat in on a much-needed session on backing up your data in Microsoft 365. Here’s a recent blog post where I told you about it and invited you to view the recorded session.

But now there’s an even better option: You can attend an all-new live webinar on the same, urgent topic — and get all your questions answered right there at the webinar.

Why aren’t you backing up Microsoft 365 data?

A surprisingly large number of organizations that use Microsoft 365 don’t use any backup system to protect the data they store there. For ransomware crooks, that’s a gift — if you get hit and you don’t have complete, easy-to-recover backup files, you’ll have to choose between paying the ransom and absorbing the business and reputational costs of taking days, weeks, or even months to reconstruct your lost data.

Even in the far more likely event that important data gets deleted accidentally or a file gets corrupted and needs to be rolled back to an earlier version, you may very well find yourself having to start over from scratch — wasting time, resources, and money.

The shared-responsibility security model

Since the emergence of cloud platforms, vendors at all levels have struggled to educate customers about the “shared responsibility” model of security, which applies to AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Microsoft 365, and others.

What it means is this: While these platforms and services deliver a wide range of truly game-changing benefits, freeing you from having to secure and protect your data is not one of them. Just like when your email and data storage were on-premises, it’s still your responsibility to deploy effective security and backup. Microsoft’s Terms of Service even recommend using a third-party backup service to protect any data you store in Outlook Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams. <insert wry joke about how no one reads the terms of service>

Understand what’s required

At the webinar, Barracuda’s Stasia Hurley and Chris King, along with Microsoft Technology Strategist Michail Oza, will explain the ways in which relying on native data-retention policies for your backup strategy can lead to costly data losses — and they’ll explain why Microsoft is not liable when your data is lost for any reason.

The panel will also provide an in-depth understanding of what it takes to implement a truly secure, reliable backup strategy for your Microsoft 365 deployment. And they’ll show you why Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup — a SaaS solution that frees you from both hardware management and software updating — works to ensure that all your Microsoft 365 data is fully protected against loss, whether intentional, malicious, or accidental.

Stop assuming that data you store in the Microsoft cloud must be safe against loss. Attend this webinar to find out exactly how that assumption puts you at risk and what you need to do to protect your data.