Effective April 22, 2025, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID and Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID are available. Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory (AD)) faces over 600 million attacks daily. This is why protecting your organization’s digital identity is critical and where these new solutions come into play.
Why should I backup my Microsoft Entra ID data?
Microsoft Entra ID data isn’t automatically backed up, nor is it protected from potential cyber threats. As part of the Shared Responsibility model, you are responsible for managing your company’s identity. Both Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID and Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID provide back up of users, groups, roles, administrative units, enterprise applications, and sign-in and audit logs, ensuring recoverability when needed.
What is Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID?
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID is a software solution that protects your Microsoft Entra ID environment. It uses advanced encryption, real-time monitoring, and automated recovery processes to secure your Microsoft tenant against threats. It also provides automated backup scheduling, instant recovery capabilities, and robust compliance tools. You choose your own storage, either on-premises, in the cloud (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud), or in a hybrid environment.
- Deployment: Installed and managed by your organization within your own infrastructure.
- Control: Offers more granular control over backup and recovery processes, allowing users to manage their own backup schedules and configurations.
What is Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID?
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID is a SaaS backup solution, which provides comprehensive backup and restore capabilities for Entra ID users, groups, application registrations and other objects. Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID stores all your Microsoft Entra ID data in the cloud region of your choice with built-in redundancy.
- Deployment: Managed by Veeam, delivered as a cloud service.
- Control: Simplifies the backup process by offloading maintenance, updates, and security fixes to Veeam, offering a unified interface and unlimited storage.
Key Benefits of Data Cloud / Backup for Microsoft Entra ID
- Enhanced Security: Protects your Microsoft Entra ID environment against cybersecurity threats.
- Resilience: Provides automated backup processes to minimize the risk of human error and ensure consistent resilience practices.
- Granular Recovery: Allows for object-level recovery, enabling precise restoration of specific users, groups, or application registrations.
- Compliance Management: Helps meet governance, risk, and compliance requirements by providing cost-efficient storage for audit logs.
- Forensic Support: Supports forensic investigations with point-in-time copies of identity and access management services.
Licensing
- Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID: Licensed per user per year.
- Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID: Licensed per user per month.
Only enabled users count toward the required number of licenses. Guest users and non-enabled users do not contribute to the licensing requirements for these Veeam solutions.
More Information
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID: https://www.veeam.com/products/saas/microsoft-entra-id-backup-software.html.
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID: https://www.veeam.com/products/saas/microsoft-entra-id-backup-service.html.
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