Every organization that moves to Microsoft 365 assumes their data is protected. It is not. Microsoft's Shared Responsibility Model makes clear: your data is your responsibility. Securafy hardens, backs up, and monitors your entire Microsoft cloud environment — email, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Contacts, and Azure — so the platform that runs your business does not become the vulnerability that ends it.
Microsoft's own documentation states that data protection in M365 is a shared responsibility — and the customer's share is larger than most organizations realize. When your data is deleted, encrypted by ransomware, or corrupted, Microsoft's platform keeps running. Your data does not come back.
Microsoft manages the infrastructure — availability, platform uptime, and physical security.
You are responsible for your data — protection, backup, access controls, and recovery.
Microsoft even recommends using third-party backup solutions for all M365 workloads.
"Moving to Microsoft 365 is not a backup strategy. It is a productivity platform that Microsoft operates and you populate with irreplaceable business data — without a safety net, unless you build one."
— Randy Hall, Founder & CEO, SecurafyEvery workload. Every user. Continuous backup with point-in-time recovery, multi-year retention, and encrypted storage. If Microsoft loses it, deletes it, or ransomware encrypts it — we restore it.
Complete mailbox backup including email, calendar, tasks, and notes. Point-in-time recovery of individual emails, entire mailboxes, or entire tenants. Multi-year retention that survives license changes and user departures.
Site collections, document libraries, lists, and pages — fully backed up with version history beyond Microsoft's native limits. Restore individual files, entire sites, or the full tenant from any point in time.
Every user's OneDrive — backed up continuously. Ransomware cannot permanently encrypt what we have independently archived. Restore any file to any version, from any point in time, in minutes.
Team channels, private chat messages, meeting recordings, and files shared in Teams. Everything your organization communicates and collaborates on — protected against deletion and data loss.
Global Address Lists, personal contacts, and distribution group memberships. The business relationships your organization depends on — backed up and recoverable even after accidental deletion or directory corruption.
Group mailboxes, shared calendars, planner boards, and associated content — backed up as a unified unit. Restore an entire group or pick individual items.
HIPAA requires data availability and integrity controls — M365 native retention does not satisfy this. GLBA Safeguards Rule requires backup and recovery procedures for customer financial data. CJIS requires controlled data retention for criminal justice information. PCI-DSS requires cardholder data to be protected with tested, documented backup. Ohio Safe Harbor requires a recognized security program including data protection controls.
Microsoft ships M365 with defaults optimized for ease of use, not security. A Securafy-managed M365 tenant is hardened to Microsoft's own Secure Score recommendations and NIST CSF 2.0 controls — closing every default gap before your team logs in for the first time.
Azure is powerful and flexible — and equally complex to secure. Misconfigured Azure environments are one of the most common attack vectors for sophisticated threat actors. Securafy manages your Azure infrastructure with the same Prevention-First discipline applied to every client environment.
Virtual machines, networking, storage accounts, and resource groups — provisioned, configured, and managed according to Microsoft's Security Benchmark and your organizational requirements.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud configured, monitored, and actively managed. Continuous security posture assessment, threat protection across hybrid workloads, and regulatory compliance visibility.
Advanced Identity Protection, Privileged Identity Management, and Conditional Access — managed and monitored 24/7. Every privileged action logged, every anomalous sign-in flagged and investigated.
Azure environments routinely run 20–40% over budget due to unoptimized resources, orphaned assets, and incorrect sizing. Securafy manages your Azure spend alongside your security posture — both matter.
Azure virtual machine backup, SQL database backup, and file share protection — configured with defined RTO and RPO targets, tested regularly, and documented in your disaster recovery runbook.
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and custom alert rules configured to surface the signals that matter — not alert noise. Your Azure environment is visible in Securafy's CSA portal alongside your endpoint and network data.
Microsoft Secure Score measures how well your M365 tenant is configured against security best practices. The industry average is under 40%. Securafy-managed tenants consistently achieve 80%+. The difference is not tools — it is systematic configuration, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
Unused licenses, wrong-tier assignments, and orphaned accounts accumulate silently. Securafy manages your complete M365 license inventory — optimizing spend, ensuring every user has the right license for their role, and eliminating waste that adds up to thousands of dollars annually.
No. M365 ships with defaults optimized for ease of use, not security. Multi-factor authentication is not enforced, legacy authentication protocols are active, Conditional Access is not configured, and external sharing is unrestricted. A new M365 tenant is significantly more open than most organizations realize. Securafy closes every default gap as part of our initial hardening process.
No. Microsoft provides retention policies — not backups. Native M365 retention has hard time limits (typically 30–93 days), does not protect against ransomware encryption, and does not survive tenant-level events. Microsoft themselves recommend third-party backup for all M365 workloads. Without independent backup, your email, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams data has no recovery path beyond Microsoft's limited native tools.
When a user's license is removed, their mailbox begins deletion within 30 days by default. Years of email, calendar data, and OneDrive content can be permanently lost if not backed up or properly offboarded. Securafy's SaaS Backup captures all user data independently of license status, and our offboarding workflows ensure data is retained per your organizational and compliance requirements before access is removed.
Yes. Ransomware that executes on an endpoint with OneDrive sync enabled can encrypt locally synced files, which then propagate the encrypted versions to the cloud. SharePoint Online can similarly be affected through synced libraries. Microsoft's version history may help in limited cases, but a sophisticated ransomware attack can corrupt enough versions to make native recovery impossible. Independent SaaS backup with air-gapped storage is the only reliable protection.
Yes for regulated industries. HIPAA requires addressable backup and disaster recovery under the Technical Safeguard standards. GLBA Safeguards Rule requires backup and recovery procedures for customer financial data. CJIS requires controlled retention of criminal justice information in systems with documented backup. None of these requirements are satisfied by M365 native retention alone. Securafy's SaaS Backup with long-term, encrypted, auditable retention satisfies each of these framework requirements.
Microsoft Secure Score is a measurement of your organization's security posture based on your M365 configuration — how many of Microsoft's recommended security controls are actually enabled. The industry average score is below 40%. Cyber insurers increasingly require evidence of M365 security controls, and a low Secure Score is a red flag in any security assessment. Securafy-managed tenants consistently achieve 80%+ Secure Score through systematic hardening and continuous maintenance.
Start with a complimentary Microsoft 365 Security Assessment. We evaluate your current M365 configuration against Microsoft's Secure Score benchmark, identify every default security gap, and show you exactly what it would take to protect the platform your business runs on.
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