Enhancing cyber resilience with Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium

Thousands of companies rely on Microsoft Entra ID for identity and access management (IAM), including more than half of the Fortune 500 companies. From user authentication to access control for business-critical apps like Microsoft 365, Entra ID holds a foundational role in modern cybersecurity. That’s why Barracuda is excited to announce the launch of Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium — a powerful, affordable solution designed to safeguard your Entra ID environment and help your organization maintain business continuity and cyber resilience.

Despite the critical importance of IAM and Entra ID, Microsoft’s recovery options are limited, and the data that is kept is sent to the recycle bin for 30 days. Barracuda’s solution goes far beyond these native capabilities to defend Entra ID from the modern threat landscape and other risks like accidental deletions or inaccurate configuration.

What is Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium?

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is a cloud-based service that provides identity verification and access control, both of which are required for modern cybersecurity. Authentication verifies the identity of the user or device attempting to login. This prevents unauthorized users from getting into the network. Authorization controls the access granted to each logged in user. Without these controls, anyone who logs in could access more than they should.

To manage all the users, devices and permissions on a domain or a third-party application like Salesforce, Microsoft Entra ID contains many different data types and their attributes, as well as the relationships between them. If your office building was your digital domain, Entra ID would be where you manage who could have keys to the external and internal doors. You could use it to manage what parts of the building each user could see and/or enter, at what times, and from what locations. While this is just a simple analogy, imagine what would happen if you suddenly lost all that information.

Although Microsoft Entra ID is used by more than 610 million monthly users, the native Microsoft 365 recovery option protects very little of that data. With Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium, you can protect the most essential identity components needed to maintain a secure and resilient Microsoft Entra ID environment. This includes users, groups, roles, administrative units, app registrations, audit logs, authentication and access policies, BitLocker keys, device management configurations, and more. 

Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium – Backup configuration (Barracuda Campus documentation)

The loss or misconfiguration of this data can be catastrophic to a company, and under the Microsoft shared security model, customers are responsible for their own data. Microsoft may try to assist, but they have no responsibility to do so. Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium protects all these data types and retains the attributes and relationships that were in place at the time of backup. And like all Barracuda backup solutions, a cloud-based user interface makes it fast and easy to find and restore the data you’re looking for. 

Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium – Restore option  (Barracuda Campus documentation)

You can also monitor the status of your backups, evaluate the health of your data and access storage statistics. 

Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium – successful backup notification  (Barracuda Campus documentation)

An audit log and email alerts keep you informed about every action taken, ensuring you are always informed on the backup process. 

Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium – Audit log  (Barracuda Campus documentation)

And deployment only takes five minutes — from sign-up to running your first backup.

Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium – Granting permissions  (Barracuda Campus documentation)

Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium integrates seamlessly with the BarracudaONE platform, providing a unified dashboard for centralized visibility into backup status, data health and storage insights. Real-time monitoring, detailed audit logs and email alerts keep IT teams informed about every action taken, while advanced search and granular restore capabilities make it easy to find and recover exactly what’s needed.

For managed service providers (MSPs) and organizations managing multiple tenants, Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium scales effortlessly, simplifying identity protection management across diverse environments. The benefits of this solution are even greater when deployed alongside other Barracuda security solutions and managed through BarracudaONE.

BarracudaONE unified dashboard (Introducing the new BarracudaONE AI-powered cybersecurity platform | Barracuda Networks Blog)

Entra ID is a prime target

As the largest cloud-based identity service in the world, Entra ID is a prime target for threat actors like Storm-2372 and Void Blizzard, who focus on critical infrastructure sectors of Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East, and sometimes Ukraine. Microsoft threat research reveals that attackers launch 600 million daily identity attacks, and over 99% of these attacks are password-based attacks like phishing or password spraying.

Entra ID and Identity Attacks, Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024

Microsoft also reports that it blocked 7,000 password attacks per second in 2024, up from 4,000 per second in 2023.

Easy to deploy, effortless to use

Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium is now available globally through Barracuda's extensive network of resellers and managed service providers. The solution can be purchased as a standalone offering for organizations focused specifically on identity protection, or as part of a comprehensive subscription with Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup for those seeking broader data protection capabilities.

This flexible approach allows organizations to implement identity protection immediately while maintaining the option to expand their backup coverage as needs evolve. For MSPs, the multi-tenant capabilities and centralized management features make it possible to offer comprehensive identity protection services to clients while maintaining operational efficiency.

The combination of rapid deployment, comprehensive protection and flexible purchasing options makes Barracuda Entra ID Backup Premium an ideal solution for organizations serious about protecting their identity infrastructure.