Protecting Entra ID

Good afternoon. I hope that everyone's week is going well. This week, Dell F.A.C.T.S. will focus on APEX Backup Services' (ABS) recently released support for backing up and protecting Microsoft Entra ID.

?What is Microsoft Entra ID?

As the backbone of identity and access management (IAM) for Microsoft Cloud resources, Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is crucial for maintaining business continuity. Dell’s ABS 00% SaaS solution provides an efficient, automated, and simplistic way to protect and recover Microsoft Entra ID objects, ensuring your organization remains resilient against disruptions.

?The challenge

Microsoft Entra data shows attempted password attacks increased more than tenfold in 2023, from around 3 billion per month to over 30 billion. This translates to an average of 4,000 attempted attacks per second targeting Microsoft Cloud identities . If Entra ID isn’t available, your users can't work in Microsoft 365 or Azure Cloud. To ensure resilience against 1 Entra ID outages, compromises, and misconfigurations, your organization must have reliable access to its data.

?Dell’s Microsoft Entra ID solution enables organizations to take a policy-driven approach to protect their Azure Identity and Access Management, minimizing downtime and expediting the recovery of critical data and services.

?Ensure Entra ID data is always secure and available

Dell’s ?100% SaaS Solution provides a simple and efficient way to ensure you can recover your Microsoft Entra ID objects quickly, avoiding costly disruptions and reputational damages to your organization. By storing data in logically air-gapped storage fully hosted by Dell, ensure your Entra ID directory services can be restored efficiently in the event of cyber threats, data loss, misconfiguration, or accidental deletion.

?Boost your platform and data security

Dell's Entra ID support in the Data Security Cloud provides an essential addition to our suite of supported workloads. Dell delivers autonomous data security with a 100% SaaS, fully managed platform to safeguard your data from any threat. Get comprehensive protection across diverse environments — data centers, SaaS apps, cloud-native workloads, and end-user data. Our unique approach ensures robust security and improves Incident Response and Remediation (IRR). With Dell, data security becomes autonomous, all from a unified platform.

?Get full coverage for all your Microsoft data

Level up your Microsoft workload security. In addition to Entra ID, safeguard your data across Azure VMs and Microsoft 365 applications — SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange Online, Teams, and Planner — with ease. With the agility of SaaS, deploy rapidly, scale dynamically, and manage seamlessly alongside other data sources on a unified platform. Experience peace of mind with secure air-gapped storage and robust data governance at your fingertips.

?Complete data security for Entra ID objects

Dell provides a policy-based approach to protect and secure common Entra ID objects such as Users, Groups, Roles, Devices, Enterprise Applications, and Application Registrations.

?Go beyond basic object recovery

Dell doesn't just recover Microsoft Entra ID objects; it restores their settings and relationships too. Customers can breathe easy knowing vital relationships like group memberships are restored along with the objects.

?Object comparative restores

Dell provides capabilities to compare objects between snapshots, enabling users to swiftly recover specific data points or compare the current state with previous backups through comparative restores.

?Key features

Protect containers with objects (including settings and relationships)

• Users and relationships — Dell provides a policy-based approach to automatically protect user objects and their associated metadata. Restores users along with their relationships, such as organizational hierarchy and reporting structures, ensuring continuity.
• Groups and memberships — Safeguards group objects and maintains the integrity of group memberships. Enables rapid recovery of groups with their exact member lists intact, crucial for maintaining access controls and operational workflows.
• Roles and associations — Protects role objects and their associations with users and groups. Ensures that role-based access controls are quickly restored, maintaining security and compliance post-recovery.
• Devices (view / download only) — Offers backup of device metadata and configurations. Provides capabilities to view and download device information to facilitate governance and compliance requirements.
• Enterprise applications — Protects enterprise applications by backing up application objects and their settings. Allows recovery of enterprise applications to their configured states, including permissions and connected services.
• App registrations — Secures application registration details, including client IDs. Restores app registrations with exact configurations, preserving essential integrations and access privileges across applications.

With Dell, businesses can quickly restore Entra ID services, ensuring continuity and resilience against cyber threats and misconfigurations. Dell is among the first in the industry to meet this demand, filling a customer need, and addressing core IAM needs. Overall, the addition of Entra ID support strengthens Dell’s comprehensive data security suite for Microsoft environments, enhancing user experience, operational efficiency, and market competitiveness.

?We are excited to share how Dell’s platform utilizing Microsoft’s APIs is a more secure, efficient, and less complex solution than Solutions that are Native to M365.

?I hope that everyone has a great weekend.