IDrive, a leading provider of cloud backup and storage solutions, today announced the addition of Microsoft Entra ID Backup to its IDrive Microsoft Office 365 Backup solution. The new capability helps organizations protect critical identity and access management data against accidental deletion, misconfiguration, unauthorized changes, and other incidents that can disrupt access to business-critical resources.
Microsoft Entra ID serves as a central control plane for workforce identities, applications, and privileged access. However, native retention and recovery capabilities may not provide comprehensive protection for critical Entra ID configurations and objects. The loss or modification of users, groups, applications, roles, policies, or devices can disrupt sign-ins and require time-consuming manual reconstruction.
“Microsoft Entra ID is fundamental to how organizations manage identities and access to their digital environments,” said Raghu Kulkarni, CEO of IDrive. “With Microsoft Entra ID Backup, IDrive is extending comprehensive Microsoft 365 data protection to the identity layer, helping organizations maintain business continuity and quickly recover from accidental or malicious changes.”
Protect Critical Microsoft Entra ID Objects
IDrive Microsoft Entra ID Backup automatically backs up critical Entra ID objects and settings to the IDrive cloud. Supported objects include users, groups, roles and administrators, administrative units, app registrations, enterprise applications, devices, policies, sign-in logs, audit logs, device configurations, device compliance policies, and BitLocker recovery keys.
Key capabilities include:
- Automated Entra ID backups: Frequent snapshots preserve critical objects, settings, and relationships for more complete recovery.
- Change tracking and visibility: Historical snapshots and comparison views help administrators identify changes across users, groups, roles, and policies.
- Granular and bulk recovery: Restore individual users, groups, applications, policies, or multiple Entra ID objects together while preserving relationships.
- Point-in-time restore: Recover objects to an earlier known-good state to help mitigate the effects of accidental changes, misconfigurations, and attacks.
- Centralized management: Manage Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Office 365 backups from a single web console.
- Secure cloud storage: Entra ID backup data is stored in the IDrive cloud with AES-256 encryption and retention capabilities.
Comprehensive Microsoft 365 Protection
With the addition of Microsoft Entra ID Backup, IDrive provides organizations with protection across a broad range of Microsoft 365 services from a centralized platform. IDrive Microsoft Office 365 Backup already supports backup of OneDrive, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams and Groups, and related Microsoft 365 data.
The solution provides automated backups, snapshot-based point-in-time recovery, granular restore capabilities, and centralized administration to help organizations protect Microsoft 365 environments from data loss and operational disruption.
Microsoft Entra ID Backup is available for $10 per Entra ID seat per year with unlimited storage.
