Beyond the basics: Advanced recoverability for Microsoft Entra ID

• Recoverability is essential: It enables organizations to quickly restore functionality after incidents, not just recover data.
• Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium offers advanced features: These include policy-level and object-level restoration, version history, and protection for critical identity components.
• Operational resilience depends on robust recoverability: Effective identity management requires more than access controls—it demands the ability to recover from disruptions.

Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management solution. Entra ID is critical to securing digital identities in today’s enterprise environments. To fully protect an Entra ID deployment, administrators should think in terms of recoverability, not just backup.

What is Entra ID?

Microsoft Entra ID—previously known as Azure Active Directory—helps organizations securely control access to resources for employees, partners, and customers. It supports single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication, and comprehensive access policies for cloud and hybrid environments, covering Microsoft and third-party cloud applications. If your Entra ID data is not available for any reason, your workforce will not be able to access these resources, leaving your organization at a standstill.

Backup and recoverability

Why are we talking about recoverability? Simply put, a backup just isn’t enough. A backup of Entra ID refers to creating copies of your Entra ID data, like users, groups, roles, policies, and configurations. It’s a proactive measure that focuses on retention and restoration of data, but it doesn’t always address the complexity of identity systems.

Recoverability is about getting back to a known good state quickly and reliably after an incident, regardless of what the incident is. It goes beyond restoring data from backup. It’s about restoring functionality without breaking authentication or compliance.

Why is this critical? Because identity is the backbone of modern security. If your Entra ID tenant is compromised or misconfigured, users can’t sign in, apps fail, and business grinds to a halt. Recoverability ensures:

• Minimal downtime during outages or attacks.
• Rapid rollback of risky changes.
• Business continuity even in worst-case scenarios.

Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium

Backups are essential, but they are only part of the process. Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium goes beyond simple backups by enabling policy-level and object-level restoration, version history, and automated workflows—so you can recover your identity environment with confidence.

The solution also covers the high-impact configurations that you cannot protect with Microsoft’s native 30-day backup. This includes conditional access policies, authentication method & strength policies, and several more critical identity components.

 Try it in your own environment

Effective identity management hinges not just on access controls, but equally on robust recoverability—empowering organizations to maintain operational resilience in an increasingly complex cloud landscape. You can get a risk free trial of Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium or schedule a demo by visiting our website.