If you run a business today in digital world, your business success completely depends on Office 365. Powered by the best and widely used productivity applications for business professionals, Office 365 also offers advanced cloud productivity and collaboration services. As your business growing operations into the cloud, protection and safeguarding of your Office 365 environment becomes even more essential. And as your business is depending on such a critical tool, Umetech has you covered. We offer office 365 backup solutions. We ensure to take your Microsoft tenant to a whole new level—from the standpoint of Microsoft services. Here’s why you should care about backing up office 365.

The Importance of Securing Office 365

One of the key reasons to secure and back up your Office 365 environment is to guard against accidental deletion, which can lead to the permanent loss of vital business information. Additionally, the threat of malware or ransomware attacks looms large, capable of crippling your operations and wreaking havoc on your data integrity. Moreover, retention policy gaps can create vulnerabilities, leaving important data unprotected and at risk of being lost forever. Proper measures need to be in place to mitigate these risks effectively. Ensuring robust security and backup protocols is essential to safeguarding your business continuity.

Source: Seven Critical Reasons You Need to Backup Microsoft 365

Protecting Sensitive Data

Office 365 contains everything from emails and Word docs to customer databases to turntable dance videos to all sorts of internal and external communications. Information is, indeed, power, and this information is all that cyber criminals need to steal our money, violate our privacy, throw our elections, and do many other things. Without doing the right things to safeguard your Office 365 environment, your business faces data breaches, phishing, ransomware, business email compromise and who knows what else. You want to keep this information safe from unauthorised access and cyber attacks against your company.

Ensuring Compliance

There are multiple industries with strict regulations on data protection and privacy, such as laws on HIPAA compliance or the GDPR in the EU. A violation of these rules can be detrimental to a company, not only in reputation damage but also with fiscal penalties. Securing your Office 365 environment can bring necessary security to keep your business in compliance with industry regulations and protect your business from potential legal ramifications.

Maintaining Business Continuity

If your business stumbes upon a breach, you not only risk having your business operations shut down, possibly indefinitely, but productivity levels would decrease, resulting in financial losses. Protecting your Office 365 environment would ensure that your business continues running smoothly without any cyber attacks that may shut it down and prevent your team from working.

The Need for Backing Up Office 365

Recovering from Data Loss

This includes accidental deletions and overwriting data, as well as malicious attacks, hardware failure, and other incidents that result in data loss. Although redundancy is built into Office 365, it does not automatically provide any kind of backup solution for the Office 365 data your organisation generates. Backing up this data regularly will enable you to respond faster to data loss incidents and restore critical data with as little downtime as possible.

Safeguarding Against Ransomware

With ransomware attacks on the increase, ransomware can freeze a business, encrypting its data and demanding payment to release it. A strong backup plan should give you clean, unencrypted copies of your data so that you can recover in the event of a ransomware attack, rendering the ransomware pointless and protecting your business from extortion.

Meeting Retention Policies

And for business purposes, some industries have specific rules on how long the business needs to keep data. If you take advantage of Office 365’s default retention policies, you might not cover all cases. Having a complete backup solution frees businesses to meet all their data retention policies, and allows them to meet legal requirements by keeping vital data for a stated period of time.

Enhancing Your Microsoft Tenant with Umetech

We can make your Microsoft tenant work for you with improved security and Office 365 backup solutions. Umetech can help, as demonstrated below.

Comprehensive Security Measures

We maintain advanced security measures that help you protect your Office 365 environment from cyber threats. They include multi-factor authentication, encryption of data at rest and in flight, advanced threat detection, and other real-time monitoring measures. We also constantly search for cyber-threats in advance — even those not yet known.

Reliable Backup Solutions

Our solutions are designed to provide you with the most robust protection of your Office 365 data, We periodically take continuous backups of all your emails, documents and other essential data on a daily or weekly basis as automated by us, to make sure you have clean copies ready to roll at the earliest of every data loss or corruption incident, our solution is completely scalable and can be configured according to your exact business usecase requirement.

Compliance and Regulatory Support

It’s no easy feat conquering the diverse compliance landscape service regulations. and standards. Rest assured that Umetech will have your back every step of the way! We’ll make sure your Office 365 environment complies with all industry standards and regulations—implementing the right retention policies; ensuring your company stays legally sound.

Conclusion

Since you have your Office 365 environment, you should secure and back it up. Actually you must secure and back it up – it is a key element of your business. Your data must be protected, your compliance achieved, your business must run as usual and your data should not be lost. Ransomware must go away! We focus on securing your Microsoft tenant and keeping it backed up so you can then focus on what you are good at: running your business.

Please contact us if you require assistance in protecting and backing up your Office 365 environment, ensuring your business always has the means to stand up against the ever-changing threat landscape.