Veritas offers Enhanced Cyber Resiliency for Microsoft 365 Workloads

Veritas announces it’s Alta SaaS Protection is being integrated with Microsoft 365 Backup Storage. This enhances Alta SaaS Protection, making it an even more powerful, comprehensive data protection solution for Microsoft 365 workloads. 

Organizations worldwide continue to adopt software as a service (SaaS) solutions, such as Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Slack, and Box, at an accelerated pace. Three main reasons customers love SaaS are that SaaS applications:

• Enable remote teams to collaborate from anywhere
• Are less expensive upfront than self-managed software
• Are easier to deploy and maintain at scale.

With the shift towards modern SaaS applications, these platforms have become prime targets for cyber-attacks like ransomware. This shift results in significant challenges for the teams managing security, SaaS line-of-business services, and IT operations.

Every Customer is a Target for Ransomware Attacks

Even the world’s largest casinos are not immune from ransomware attacks. Some very public attacks occurred last year in Las Vegas, causing over $100M of revenue loss and disrupting critical business operations. After a ransomware event last summer, one of the world’s leading casinos and resorts turned to Veritas for help.

Veritas is one of the leaders in secure multi-cloud data management, and we provided a cyber resilience solution, together with Microsoft, that helped this casino be cyber resilient and recover fast and securely from ransomware and cyber threats.

Veritas Alta with Microsoft provided a cyber-resilience solution to defend all possible data locations such as cloud, SaaS and enterprise apps, integrating with Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, and a robust cyber security ecosystem of tools and partners. Veritas provided an Isolated Recovery Environment (or IRE), with an air-gapped immutable recovery zone, plus key data observability and compliance insights.

Together, we were able to help the casino defend nearly $10 billion in revenue and keep all their resorts online globally, including securing their Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams environments.

Don’t Forget, You Are Responsible for Your SaaS Data, Not the SaaS Application Vendor

That’s why Veritas is collaborating with Microsoft to ensure SaaS data is protected. Microsoft 365 Backup Storage offers comprehensive backup and restore capabilities for Microsoft 365 data, including OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange. It provides point-in-time recovery to safeguard your data. 

When paired with solutions from the Veritas Alta secure cloud data management platform, Veritas provides an enterprise-grade solution to allow you to securely protect data across your Microsoft 365 instances and recover faster from cyber threats such as Ransomware. Additionally, it helps you fulfill your responsibilities under Microsoft’s shared responsibility model.

With Veritas + Microsoft 365 Backup Customers Will be Able to Achieve the Following Outcomes:

• Reduced risk with advanced security protection 
  • Tightly integrate cyber resilience and recovery from ransomware or data loss

    • Microsoft 365 Backup Storage provides fast bulk restore within agreed upon SLA to protect against external ransomware attacks.

    • Adding Veritas Alta SaaS Protection to Microsoft 365 Backup Storage provides comprehensive protection by adding flexible recovery to your data loss risk. Veritas includes granular restores at file and object level for greater flexibility and protection on more targeted data loss scenarios. 

    • Adding Veritas Alta SaaS Protection to Microsoft 365 Backup Storage also offers greater flexibility when deciding on how to meet your RPO/RTO needs, and matching these with the appropriate level and cost of protection – one size does not fit all – Veritas Alta SaaS Protection and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage is better together and they offer flexibility of protection choice 

  • Meet corporate business continuity, disaster recovery, long-term data retention and governance needs

    • Microsoft 365 Backup Storage offers a 1-year retention of your data. By complementing this with Veritas customers can meet longer-term data retention and compliance needs.

    • Veritas enables customers to export copies of their data outside of Microsoft 365/Microsoft Azure, to meet their resilience, retention, and compliance requirements. 

• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
  • Control cloud costs and lower TCO of Microsoft 365 services

    • Reclaim licenses and storage from employee turnover. Intelligently automate and manage employee turnover data to a centralized and secure cloud while ensuring data immutability and security, with cost-effective and easy retention and reprovisioning.

    • Veritas end-user portal self-service restore will help save on IT costs.

• Accelerate IT

  • Manage Microsoft 365 data along with other SaaS applications (including Entra ID, Slack, and Salesforce), enterprise data center applications (physical or virtual), and private and public clouds all through a single platform. 

  • Empower SecOps, SaaS, and IT Ops teams to collaborate faster to address advanced search, compliance, and discovery requests.

    • With Veritas you get the ability to perform full-text indexing, legal holds, advanced search, exports, audit tracking, cases/case permissions, and more.
    • Accelerate IT ticket resolution and reduce compliance risk by providing quick, easy, and global search across all protected workloads with Veritas.

We are excited to be partnering with Microsoft to enable customers to perform snapshots and fast recovery of Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, and OneDrive. Supporting Veritas 360 Defense, we are extending our cyber resiliency capabilities and reinforcing our joint commitment to ransomware protection and recovery. Demonstrating this commitment, Microsoft became the first partner to have a product achieve Veritas RedLabs validation.”— Ali Samadi, Staff Product Manager, Veritas.

Our collaboration with Veritas establishes a significant step forward in aiding our mutual customers to swiftly recover from cyber incidents. We're excited about expanding our partnership to enhance data security for our users," remarked Zach Rosenfield, Director of PM for Collaborative Apps and Platforms at Microsoft.

The collaboration between Veritas and Microsoft enhances data security and governance for SaaS environments, enabling extremely fast RTO and RPO for Microsoft 365 data. The Veritas Alta platform offers comprehensive enterprise-wide data protection and management. This powerful combination is highly compelling for our joint customers, system integrators, and channel partners.

For more information on this joint solution view the Veritas-Microsoft webinar. For information about our existing data protection solutions, including those for Microsoft  365, please visit our website, the Azure Marketplace or contact us now to get started.

For more information from Microsoft visit: Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage.