Cybersecurity company Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced the launch of Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium, a new solution to safeguard Microsoft Entra ID environments from accidental and malicious data loss.

Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium has been designed to give users centralized visibility into backup status, data health and storage insights through a unified dashboard. The service is built to support both single and multi-tenant environments, with Barracuda saying that it makes an ideal solution for information technology teams and managed service providers looking to simplify and scale identity protection management.

The solution assists organizations that are increasingly relying on Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management platform from the risk of identity data loss, whether that be from cyberattacks or human error. Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium also addresses the issue wherein Microsoft retains Entra ID data for only 30 days by providing long-term, scalable data preservation.

“Identity is the control plane of today’s digital business – any disruption can halt operations and expose organizations to security risks,” explained Neal Bradbury, chief product officer at Barracuda. “With Entra ID Backup Premium, we are closing a critical gap in the identity protection lifecycle by adding fast, reliable recovery to our proven detection and response capabilities.”

The software-as-a-service solution has been built for simplicity and speed, with no installation, configuration, or manual patching required to get up an running. Users of Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium can connect their Microsoft 365 tenant and start backing up Entra ID data in just minutes.

Additional features provided by Barracuda include advanced search, real-time monitoring, detailed audit logs and five levels of role-based access control that provide the visibility and control needed to manage identity protection efficiently and securely.

“Unlike point solutions that focus only on backup or monitoring, Barracuda delivers a unified, end-to-end approach that makes Entra ID protection simpler, stronger and more resilient so organizations can stay secure, compliant and operational,” added Bradbury.

Barracuda was previously in the news in May when it unveiled new threat detection capabilities fueled by multimodal artificial intelligence that deliver context-aware protection against emerging attacks. The new capabilities gave Barracuda’s platform the ability to protect against attacks with accuracy and speed by simultaneously correlating and analyzing diverse text and visual data types.

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