What's new in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7

Veeam recently released its new Backup for Microsoft 365 v7 - backup and recovery solution for Microsoft 365 including Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams. With over 14 million users protected, the latest version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 enhances data protection by enabling immutability, delivering advanced monitoring and analytics across the backup infrastructure environment, along with increased control for BaaS (back up as a service) through a deeper integration with Veeam Service Provider Console.

In this blog, we'll be taking a look at some of the features of Veeam’s Backup for Microsoft 365 v7.

Is Microsoft 365 secure?

Microsoft 365 is at the centre of communications for most of UK organisations and protecting the data at the highest level has never been more important.

Generally, Microsoft 365 is a well secure platform for both individual users and businesses - but only if you implement the right security controls on your end.

In fact, Microsoft operates under a “shared responsibility” model. Shared responsibility means that both you and Microsoft are accountable for respective parts of the service—and it’s important to understand where you stand in that agreement.

Data and privacy

When it comes to data and privacy, you are the sole owner of your content. Microsoft makes this clear in their Services Agreement:

“We don’t claim ownership of Your Content. Your Content remains Your Content and you are responsible for it.”

This means that while your data is stored in Office 365, you retain all rights to it. But as per their shared responsibility model, you’re responsible for securing your data.

So, can you depend on Microsoft 365 to keep your business and data safe?

Why Veeam Backup Microsoft Office 365 v7?

With 78% of businesses (Veeam) protecting Microsoft 365 with either third-party or BaaS, companies recognise the need to protect their critical data and the ability to rapidly recover from inevitable ransomware and cyber-attacks.

Version 7 provides two integrations with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365: Veeam ONE and Veeam Service Provider Console. Advanced monitoring and reporting delivered through Veeam ONE v12 allows proactive monitoring of Microsoft 365 backup and storage resources through a single dashboard. Users receive alerts to resolve issues immediately and can leverage service level agreement (SLA) reports to ensure compliance and recovery point objectives (RPOs) are met.

The second integration builds upon existing features in Veeam Service Provider Console, which allows organisations to have increased control when leveraging BaaS for Microsoft 365 backups with a Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partner. Tenants will gain the autonomy to create backups, monitor protected data and recover at any time. Secure onboarding, automated billing and REST API support provides an easier and more seamless adoption experience.

In addition to Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, the self-service restore portal now includes support for Microsoft Teams. Users can now choose their own individual restore points as needed and restore SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business folders.

The features of Veeam Backup Microsoft Office 365 v7

Immutable backup copies:

Confidence that Microsoft 365 data is protected against ransomware attacks. Immutable copies can be stored on any object storage repository, including Microsoft Azure Blob/Archive, Amazon S3/Glacier and S3-compatible storage with support for S3 Object Lock.

Complete visibility:

Integration with Veeam ONE and Veeam Data Platform provides advanced monitoring, reporting and alerts for Microsoft 365 backup environments, ensuring reliability of the complete recovery strategy.

Increased control for BaaS:

Tenants have more self-service backup, monitoring and restore options to address more day-to-day requirements.

Protect your organisation’s most sensitive data

Good cyber security posture and hygiene encompasses an array of habits, practices and initiatives on the part of organisations and users. Galtec’s cyber security experts can help you with this. We have the skills and tools to analyse weaknesses in your organisation’s security posture, especially any weaknesses that might expose your organisation’s most sensitive data. Every solution recommended by our security team is designed and tested within Galtec’s environment - so our experts are crystal clear on all the pros and cons of our recommended action plans and can professionally guide you on how to manage and maintain them.

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