
Datto SaaS Protection
SaaS protection offers essential independent backup and recovery for cloud applications like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, creating secure, point-in-time copies of data to mitigate risks such as accidental deletion, ransomware, or corruption. Distinct from SaaS security which focuses on prevention, protection ensures data recoverability, addressing the shared responsibility model where organisations remain accountable for their data.
SaaS protection isn’t optional for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
It guarantees clean, point‑in‑time recovery under shared responsibility. UK organisations should insist on clear coverage, UK/EU data residency, long retention and audited access, then prove restores against real scenarios before buying. Price it per seat, and pick the capability you can operationalise.
What is a SaaS Protection?
What is a SaaS Protection?
SaaS Protection provides continuous, automatic backups stored in Datto’s private cloud. Therefore, it does not require the local storage resources of the environment.
Datto SaaS Protection ensures that data lost or deleted, whether accidentally or intentionally, can be recovered and restored. While data recovery and restoration can be performed for multiple files simultaneously, our solution enables these tasks to be performed granularly, for example, recovering and restoring only a single file.
Datto SaaS Protection stands as the ultimate backup and recovery solution for Microsoft 365, seamlessly integrating advanced threat protection. SaaS Protection combines the power of SaaS Protection with the robust capabilities of SaaS Defence, proactively scanning Microsoft 365 for cyber threats and ensuring backups occur three times daily.
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Google Vault is a powerful tool, but it isn’t a standalone solution for ensuring the recoverability of your Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) data. With Datto SaaS Protection, you can confidently restore lost data from Gmail, Calendars, Contacts, Drive, and Shared Drives.
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Key Advantages of Datto's SaaS Protection
Key Advantages of Datto's SaaS Protection
Datto’s SaaS Protection offers the following key advantages:
– Comprehensive data backup and recovery for cloud-based applications
– Rapid restoration of lost or corrupted data
– Protection against ransomware and other cyber threats
– Seamless integration with popular SaaS platforms
– 24/7 monitoring and support from cybersecurity experts
These benefits can help your business ensure data continuity, minimize downtime, and safeguard critical information from cyber incidents.
Why is SaaS Protection important?
Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace operate on a shared-responsibility model: the provider keeps the service running and provides basic retention (recycle bins, version history), but they don’t deliver independent, long‑term backups. You remain responsible for safeguarding business data. When something goes wrong, SaaS protection gives you clean, point‑in‑time restores that you control.
Safeguard client Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace applications from unintentional or malicious deletions, ransomware threats, and other potential cloud data losses through automated backups performed three times daily.
Automated Continuous SaaS Backup
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Our comprehensive point-in-time SaaS backup solution effectively captures all pertinent changes within Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Furthermore, it ensures an independent backup of your data, securely stored outside the servers of the SaaS providers.
Complete Control
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Efficiently recover lost data with a variety of flexible restoration options, including point-in-time, granular, and non-destructive methods.
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Recover Quickly
A comprehensive SaaS backup solution safeguards not only files and folders but also essential collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Google Drive.
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Beyond Files and Folders
What to expect from Datto SaaS Protection
When incidents strike, recovery speed and precision matter. Prioritise capabilities that minimise downtime, preserve context (folders, permissions, versions) and reduce risk across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Look for clear coverage, predictable retention and strong operational controls so your team can restore confidently, whether it’s one file or an entire account.
Backup processes are conducted three times daily to uphold data integrity and mitigate potential data loss, thus reinforcing the overall reliability and security of our information systems. This comprehensive backup regimen not only safeguards your essential information but also bolsters our capacity to recover promptly in the event of unforeseen circumstances, ensuring the continuity of our services and the protection of your data at all times.
SaaS Protection maintains your existing data structure and permissions while facilitating seamless cross-user restores and migrations, thereby ensuring that data integrity is upheld throughout the process. This comprehensive functionality enhances flexibility and reliability in managing data across various users and platforms.
Your data is rigorously secured across multiple platforms, which include OneDrive, Exchange (with particular emphasis on its Online Archives feature, provided it is activated), SharePoint, and Teams channels. This multi-layered security framework enhances the overall protection of your confidential information significantly, thereby providing an exceptionally robust and comprehensive level of security designed to safeguard all your sensitive data against potential threats and unauthorized access.
Experience the advantages of unlimited storage capacity, allowing for the secure retention of all critical files and data. This capability includes the benefit of centralised monitoring, facilitating comprehensive oversight of backup performance and ensuring that your information is consistently protected and accessible whenever required.
It is crucial to establish clean and thoroughly documented restore points that are consistently updated, and when feasible, to integrate advanced ransomware detection technologies into your snapshots. This practice not only bolsters security but also enhances the robustness of your data management processes, ensuring that you maintain optimal data integrity across all critical files and systems, even in the face of potential cyber threats.
Role-based access controls and audit logging are vital components that enhance traceability, enabling organisations to ensure that all actions are thoroughly documented and verified. This comprehensive documentation is essential not only for bolstering security but also for promoting a culture of accountability within the organization. By adopting these practices, businesses can significantly strengthen their overall security framework, mitigate risks, and maintain a detailed record of user activities.
Documented API exclusions provide essential information that helps users understand the limitations and boundaries of the system, while fast search capabilities greatly enhance the experience by allowing users to quickly and easily locate items at restore time, thus streamlining the overall restoration process.
SaaS Protection
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to your questions about our services and how we can assist you.
What is SaaS Protection and how does it secure data in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace?
SaaS Protection provides continuous, automatic backups stored in Datto’s private cloud, ensuring that data lost or deleted, whether accidentally or intentionally, can be recovered with granular options, including the ability to restore individual files.
Why is SaaS Protection essential for UK organisations using cloud services?
SaaS Protection is crucial because Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace operate on a shared-responsibility model that doesn’t include long-term, independent backups, leaving organisations responsible for safeguarding data against deletion, cyber threats, and other data loss incidents.
What are the key features and benefits of Datto's SaaS Protection?
Datto’s SaaS Protection offers rapid data recovery, comprehensive backups of cloud applications, protection against cyber threats such as ransomware, seamless integration with SaaS platforms, monitoring and support, granular restoration options, broad M365 coverage, and private cloud storage at scale.
How does SaaS Protection enhance data recovery and manage risk in cloud applications?
It maintains existing data structures and permissions for cross-user restores, enables quick recovery from various data loss incidents, including ransomware, and provides governance controls and documented API exclusions to ensure secure, controlled, and efficient data restoration.
What should businesses consider when choosing a SaaS backup and recovery solution?
Businesses should look for solutions that offer clear coverage, predictable retention, operational controls, speed and precision in restores, granular and point-in-time restore options, multi-platform data security, and strong governance features to reduce downtime and safeguard critical information.
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