SaaS Protection Comparison: How Commvault Secures Microsoft 365 and Salesforce

As organizations increasingly rely on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms like Microsoft 365 and Salesforce for business-critical operations, comprehensive protection for these environments has become essential.

While many organizations assume that SaaS providers offer complete data protection, most operate under a shared responsibility model where customers remain responsible for data backup, recovery, and security. Commvault’s SaaS protection capabilities deliver comprehensive security for these critical environments.

The SaaS Protection Imperative

The accelerating adoption of SaaS platforms has created critical protection challenges:

• Most SaaS providers operate under a shared responsibility model.
• Organizations are responsible for protecting their SaaS data from loss, corruption, and unauthorized access.
• Native SaaS protection tools often have significant limitations in retention, granularity, and security.
• SaaS environments increasingly contain an organization’s most sensitive operational data.

These factors make third-party SaaS protection essential for comprehensive security and compliance.

Microsoft 365 Protection Capabilities

Commvault® Cloud Backup & Recovery for Microsoft 365 delivers SaaS resilience and recovery capabilities specifically designed to provide protection from deletion, corruption, and attack. This includes:

Exchange Online Protection:

• Protection for Microsoft 365 applications.
• Provides granular recovery options for mailboxes, emails, attachments, and other Exchange Online components.

SharePoint Online and OneDrive Protection:

• Preserves document permissions, version history, and metadata.
• Enables granular recovery of individual documents, libraries, or entire sites.

Teams Protection:

• Preserves Teams conversations, files, channels, and settings.
• Enables both granular and complete Teams recovery.

Salesforce Protection Capabilities

Commvault extends its SaaS protection to Salesforce environments, including:

• Covering both standard and custom objects within Salesforce.
• Preserving relationships between objects for complete recovery.
• Seed, mask, and rehydrate sandbox environments for accelerated testing.
• Unlimited storage, unlimited retention, and advanced protocols (like FedRAMP High) built in.

This comprehensive Salesforce protection allows critical customer and sales data to remain secure and recoverable.

Advanced SaaS Security Features

Beyond basic backup and recovery, Commvault delivers enterprise-grade security capabilities for SaaS environments.

Enhanced Data Security

Commvault implements comprehensive security for SaaS data:

• The platform offers secure-by-design capabilities with immutability, air-gapping, and zero-trust access baked in.
• The solution offers Air Gap Protect as an integrated cloud storage target that makes it simple for IT organizations to adopt cloud air gap storage to reduce risk.
• These security features protect SaaS data against both external threats and insider risks.

Compliance and Governance

Commvault supports compliance capabilities for SaaS data:

• The platform supports standardized retention, policies, and recoverability across disparate hybrid workloads, including SaaS applications.
• The solution helps organizations implement consistent governance across SaaS environments.
• These capabilities help meet regulatory requirements for data protection and retention.

Unified SaaS Protection Management

Commvault delivers consistent management across SaaS protection:

• The platform eliminates multi-console complexity through unified management.
• The solution supports standardized retention, policies, and recoverability across disparate hybrid workloads, including SaaS applications like M365, Dynamics 365, Salesforce, and Google Workspace.
• This unified approach simplifies protection management across multiple SaaS platforms.

The Business Impact of Comprehensive SaaS Protection

For organizations, Commvault’s SaaS protection capabilities deliver several significant business advantages:

Enhanced Business Continuity

Comprehensive SaaS protection enables continuity for critical operations:

• The solution provides fast and automated backup, flexible and granular restore, and   scalable and unlimited storage.
• The platform delivers protection from deletion, corruption, and attack with backup and recovery capabilities for Microsoft 365 and Salesforce environments.
• These capabilities help minimize disruption from data loss or corruption in SaaS environments.

Simplified Compliance Readiness

Commvault’s SaaS protection helps streamline efforts to comply with various industry regulations:

• The platform supports standardized retention, policies, and recoverability to help meet compliance requirements.
• Secure, backup, and restore capabilities enable data preservation for compliance purposes.
• These features simplify auditing and reporting for regulatory requirements.

Reduced Security Risk

Advanced security features minimize risk to SaaS data, as the solution includes immutability, air gapping, and zero-trust access baked in.

SaaS Protection for Critical Environments

As organizations increasingly depend on SaaS platforms for mission-critical operations, comprehensive protection has become essential for business continuity, security, and compliance. Commvault’s superior capabilities for Microsoft 365 and Salesforce protection deliver significant advantages:

• Comprehensive coverage: Protection for all aspects of SaaS environments, not just the most common elements.
• Granular recovery: Precise restoration options that minimize disruption and data loss.
• Enhanced security: Integrated protection against modern threats targeting SaaS data.
• Simplified compliance readiness: Comprehensive capabilities for helping organizations meet regulatory requirements.

For organizations serious about protecting their mission-critical SaaS environments, Commvault represents a comprehensive solution for protecting enterprises that eliminates gaps and delivers complete recovery when needed.

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References and Validation Notes

Primary References:
1. Commvault SaaS protection documentation for Microsoft 365 (Document 3)
2. Commvault Salesforce protection capabilities (Document 3)
3. Security features for SaaS protection (Documents 3, 21)

Validation Requirements:
1. Verify specific protection capabilities for individual Microsoft 365 applications (Exchange, SharePoint, Teams)
2. Confirm granular recovery options for Microsoft 365 and Salesforce
3. Validate the security features specifically available for SaaS protection
4. Verify retention capabilities and limitations for SaaS data
5. Confirm any specific compliance certifications or capabilities for SaaS protection