All news with #backup security tag

🔐 Microsoft 365 tenant configurations are the operational blueprint for services such as Entra, Intune, Exchange, Defender, Teams and SharePoint. The piece stresses that Microsoft does not provide backups for tenant-level settings under the shared responsibility model, so restoration is the customer's duty. Lost or altered policies — from conditional access and MFA rules to DLP and retention policies — can disrupt security, compliance and business continuity. Organizations should adopt intelligent configuration backup to maintain a Zero-Trust posture and ensure recoverability.

🛡️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports native differential and transaction log restores for instances configured with Multi‑AZ and same‑region read replicas. This removes the prior requirement to convert instances to Single‑AZ before performing differential or log restores. Customers can reduce restore time while maintaining Multi‑AZ high availability and preserving Read Replica read capacity. The feature is available in all Regions where RDS for SQL Server is offered.

🔖 Amazon Web Services now supports resource tagging for automated backups and cluster automated backups in Amazon RDS and Aurora. You can tag automated backups independently from the parent DB instance or DB cluster using the AWS Management Console, API, or SDK. Use these tags with IAM policies to implement attribute-based access control and to organize, manage, and track backup costs. This capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

⚡Amazon S3 Batch Operations now finishes jobs up to 10x faster and supports jobs that include up to 20 billion objects, accelerating large-scale storage tasks. S3 pre-processes objects, runs operations, and generates completion reports with no extra configuration or cost. Typical uses include copying between buckets, tagging for lifecycle policies, and computing checksums. The upgrade is available in all AWS Regions except China and GovCloud (US).

🔒 AWS Backup now supports Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering, enabling centralized protection for FSx for Lustre and FSx for OpenZFS file systems. The Intelligent-Tiering storage class delivers fully elastic file storage that automatically scales with workloads while optimizing costs through pay-for-what-you-use elasticity. Existing Amazon FSx backup plans continue to run without modification. Support is available in all Regions where FSx Intelligent-Tiering is offered, and you can manage protections from the AWS Backup console.

♻️ Recycle Bin for Amazon EBS now supports EBS Volumes, allowing you to recover accidentally deleted volumes directly rather than restoring from snapshots. You can create retention rules to protect all volumes or target specific volumes with tags; recovered volumes retain tags, permissions, and encryption and are immediately available at full performance. Volumes in Recycle Bin are billed at standard EBS Volume rates and the capability is available via CLI, SDKs, and the AWS Console across commercial, China, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

☁️ Microsoft unveiled two Windows 11 recovery capabilities — Point-in-Time Restore (PITR) and Cloud Rebuild — designed to reduce downtime and simplify device recovery. PITR builds on System Restore by capturing full system snapshots, enabling admins and users to roll a device back to a known-good state, including local files and applications. Cloud Rebuild allows remote reinstallation through Intune, leveraging Autopilot, OneDrive, and Windows Backup for Organizations to restore settings and data.

🚀 AWS Backup introduces a low-cost warm storage tier for Amazon S3 backups that can cut storage costs by up to 30%. After S3 backup data resides in a vault for 60 days (configurable to a longer period), you can automatically move it to the new tier while preserving the same performance and features, including ransomware protection, recovery, and auditing. Automatic tiering can be enabled at the account, vault, or bucket level and is available in all Regions where AWS Backup for S3 is offered; a one-time transition fee applies.

🔒AWS Backup now supports cross-account management in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei, Thailand, New Zealand) and Mexico (Central). With this capability you can deploy organization-wide backup policies from your AWS Organizations management account or a delegated administrator, helping to maintain compliance and reduce operational overhead. You can also monitor backup activity across all organizational accounts from a single management account, centralizing visibility and simplifying auditing and troubleshooting.

🔒 Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches, enabling multiple INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations to be executed as a single atomic transaction. This ensures that all writes in a batch succeed or none are applied, improving consistency across rows and tables for use cases such as finance, inventory, and multi-entity profile updates. The feature preserves Cassandra's atomicity guarantees, integrates with CQL, scales serverlessly with your workload, and is available today in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers pay only for the standard write operations processed within each batch.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS, providing a fully managed, centralized solution for backing up cluster state and persistent application data. The agent-free integration replaces custom scripts and third-party tools with a native, policy-driven service that offers automated scheduling, retention management, immutable vaults, and cross-Region and cross-account copies. You can restore entire clusters, specific namespaces, or individual persistent volumes to support disaster recovery, compliance, or pre-upgrade protection.

🔁NAKIVO has released Backup & Replication v11.1, expanding disaster recovery and MSP capabilities and adding five interface languages—French, Italian, German, Polish and Chinese. The update brings major Proxmox VE improvements, including Flash VM Boot, VM replication and template backup/recovery, automated backup verification with screenshots, direct tape recovery, and Exchange/SQL log truncation. It also introduces MSP Direct Connect to remove client-side port changes, Real-Time Replication for VMware with automated IO Filter and Journal Service installation, and granular folder- and volume-level backups for Windows and Linux physical machines with encryption, immutability and air-gapping options.

🔐 Executives must treat cybersecurity and business continuity as a unified discipline rather than separate functions. Drawing on six years managing high-availability systems at Amazon, the author warns that attackers increasingly target recovery and backup infrastructure, turning outages into leverage. The article advocates network segmentation, air-gapped and offline backups, and integrated incident-response and recovery testing to protect operations and reputation.

🔐 AWS Backup now lets you encrypt logically air-gapped vaults with your own AWS KMS customer managed keys (CMKs). This gives organizations more control over key lifecycle, access policies, and compliance posture while preserving the security benefits of logically air-gapped backups. Support covers same-account and cross-account CMKs and is available in all Regions where air-gapped vaults are supported. You can enable CMK encryption when creating vaults via the console, API, or CLI.

🔁Amazon Web Services has expanded Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) to support Multi-Region Replication in Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). The managed capability automatically replicates tables across Regions with typically less than one second of replication lag, allowing applications to read and write the same table in multiple Regions. Customers gain lower latency, improved regional resiliency, and can replicate between these Regions and any other supported AWS Region while paying only for resources they use.

🔁 AWS Backup now supports a single-action copy of database snapshots across AWS Regions and accounts for Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon DocumentDB. This eliminates the previous two-step process and removes the need for intermediate copies, custom scripts, or Lambda automation. The change reduces operational complexity and helps achieve faster RPOs while removing costs associated with intermediate snapshot storage. You can use the feature today via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs.

🛡️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server now preserves Change Data Capture (CDC) settings and metadata when restoring native database backups. By specifying the KEEP_CDC option during a restore, customers retain CDC configuration and any captured change data, preventing gaps in ongoing data-capture workflows. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon RDS for SQL Server is offered and is documented in the RDS for SQL Server User Guide.

🗓️ AWS Backup now provides a schedule preview for backup plans, displaying the next ten scheduled backup runs and showing when features such as continuous backup, indexing, or copy settings take effect. The preview consolidates all backup rules into a single timeline so you can quickly identify overlaps, gaps, or configuration conflicts. This capability is available in all AWS Regions and accessible from the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI without additional configuration.

🔒 This buyer’s guide explains why organizations need comprehensive data protection platforms for hybrid cloud environments and which capabilities to prioritize. It highlights core requirements such as data discovery and classification, layered protections (encryption, DLP, immutability), continuous monitoring, and automated recovery to address ransomware, misconfigurations, outages and compliance. The guide also surveys market trends and leading vendors to help IT teams evaluate DPaaS, cloud-native and on-premises options.

🔓On September 17, security vendor SonicWall disclosed that cybercriminals exfiltrated backup files configured for its MySonicWall cloud backup service. The company initially reported the incident affected 'less than five percent' of customers but has since updated that all Cloud Backup users who used the feature are impacted. Stolen files include encrypted credentials and configuration data, which could enable targeted attacks despite encryption. SonicWall has published an affected-device list and a detailed remediation playbook for administrators.