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at Cohesity. In this video, we'll take a look at how you can use Cohesity Cloud Services to protect and recover an Office 365 workload. Let's get started. Imagine that I'm an IT Operations Manager, managing Microsoft 365 systems. Our organization has employees who rely on Microsoft 365 every day for email, file storage, and team coordination. After some recent ransomware attacks, we are more cautious and we found through an internal audit that there are some active issues with recovering cloud collaboration data. Our leadership has made it a priority to strengthen our operational resilience. Cohesity Cloud Service helps you protect against ransomware and other threats. It also helps achieve three key goals, fast recovery, large-scale recovery, and confident recovery for Exchange Online mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint sites, and Teams. There are many ways to achieve this, and for an organization with an IT Operations team that wants an easy-to-use, Cohesity-managed SaaS solution to backup their M365 workloads, we have two options, CCS M365, which backs up data to a Microsoft backup storage on the backend, and CCS M365, which backs up to a Cohesity-managed Azure cluster on the backend. In this demo, we'll go through these two options to see how we can maximize our cyber resiliency by using a combination of both. In the Registration Wizard, we can set up fast recovery for protection against ransomware or to recover deleted or corrupted data across Mail, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. This protects us if an account is compromised and data gets wiped. First we choose CCS M365 to get the full benefits of the Cohesity platform, including de-dupe, compression, and the ability to set up an air-gap cyber vault. I'll choose a Cohesity Cloud region in Azure to store the backup data. Note that you can also store data on AWS and the Google Cloud Platform. Next we decide on resilience. We avoid relying on the same tenant that could be attacked. The Cohesity Cloud region stores protection metadata and keeps air-gap backups, giving us a safe recovery point even if an attacker deletes or purges data. Next we pick what to protect. Attacks can hit Mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. Our goal is to get our minimal viable company back online fast. In this example, I've selected all options. On a side note, CCS offers threat scanning for Exchange, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive datasets. This allows organizations to proactively scan for threats in addition to rapid recovery. And we'll also create another backup copy using M365 CCS base. I'll enter the M365 credentials to enable Microsoft Backup Storage on the backend. Since we've already registered, I'll skip and get to a registered source to start our backups. Now we'll select one of our registered sources, and you'll see two tabs. CCS M365 quickly restores lost data, including emails, OneDrive folders, and SharePoint libraries. It offers fast backups and instant book recovery using a high-speed native API so that you can recover your critical data almost immediately and keep your business running. Second, CCS M365 serves as our long-term backup. It maintains an air-gapped, unchangeable copy for long-term retention, enabling restoration even if all tenant data and recycle bins are wiped. By combining both solutions, we have unmatched cyber resiliency thanks to fast recovery, which provides long-term air-gapped protection. We're taking steps to prevent problems before they happen. Bruce Manor's OneDrive contains important project files, so we're protecting it now to avoid issues like compromised accounts, accidental deletion, or ransomware. This way, we can restore files quickly and keep the business running smoothly. Before we finish, I'll do a quick check for future issues. I'm verifying the protection is set to Microsoft 365 Backup Storage. That way, if Bruce ever loses files by accident or through a compromised account, we can restore them quickly. After confirming the destination, I'll click on Protect. Now I'll review the activity log to show Bruce's protection job running. While Bruce's OneDrive is being protected, our scenario shifts from preparation to real-life operations. My help desk just flagged another user who can't access critical files. To respond quickly, I'll select the employee's OneDrive, choose the appropriate recovery point, and click Recover to restore his files and get him back to work. You can also configure self-service for your end users, giving the employee the ability to directly recover their OneDrive. Now we can see the recovery job running. This is where the waiting stops and the restore actually starts. While the help desk helps keep the employee updated, Cohesity Cloud Services is actively putting the OneDrive content back to where he is unblocked and can keep working. Reporting is also important to me because in my role, quick analysis of information helps me be more efficient. Also, resilience means you can answer tough questions after an audit or an incident, such as who is protected? How much is protected? Are we on track as the business grows? This report shows how many OneDrive accounts and SharePoint sites are protected, your total usage and your peak monthly usage. It helps you check your coverage and capacity before the next incident. You can download the report or have it sent to your email. This completes the demonstration. We took a look at how you can use Cohesity Cloud Services to protect and recover an Office 365 workload and how my role in IT operations is simplified through this process. Thanks for watching.
