Afi SaaS backup for Microsoft 365

Afi SaaS Backup for Microsoft 365 provides cyber-resilient, full-fidelity backup and recovery for Microsoft 365 data, identity, collaboration, Copilot, and Power Platform workloads.

Built on a modern cloud-native architecture, Afi helps organizations recover quickly from ransomware, accidental deletion, insider activity, misconfiguration, and SaaS service disruption. Afi combines automated SLA-based protection, fast point-in-time recovery, global search, immutable backup storage, AI-assisted ransomware protection, and enterprise-grade security controls in a simple, responsive admin experience.

Key capabilities include:

• Full-fidelity Microsoft 365 backup for Exchange Online, shared and room mailboxes, Exchange archive, OneDrive, OneNote, SharePoint, Microsoft 365 Groups, Teams, Planner, Power Platform, and Microsoft Copilot.

• Advanced Teams protection, including chats, channel conversations, private and shared channels, attachments, message metadata, formatting, and HTML export.

• SharePoint backup and recovery with preservation of site structure, document libraries, lists, pages, custom columns, views, content types, permissions, and metadata.

• Microsoft Entra ID backup and recovery for users, groups, roles and role assignments, conditional access policies, sign-in and audit logs, enterprise applications, application registrations, devices, Intune policies, BitLocker recovery keys, and administrative units.

• Power Platform backup for Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, DLP policies, and tenant settings, with Microsoft-native export formats for offline recovery and re-import.

• Automated SLA-based protection using tenant-wide policies, Entra ID groups, default resource groups, and dynamic groups, so new users, sites, mailboxes, and teams are protected without manual backup-plan assignment.

• Fast point-in-time restore, online preview, file/message/contact browsing, version history, and granular export to standard formats such as PST, MBOX, EML, VCF, ICS, HTML, ZIP, PBIX, PBIR, RDL, and JSON.

• Tenant-wide eDiscovery and full-text search across backup data, with filtering, secure encrypted indexes, search-based export, and change views for compliance and investigation workflows.

• AI-assisted ransomware protection that detects suspicious file encryption activity, triggers preemptive backups, and helps identify the latest clean recovery points.

• Immutable, air-gapped cloud backup storage with unlimited retention and selectable data residency in the USA, UK, EU/Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, and Australia.

• Enterprise security controls, including TLS 1.3, AES-256 encryption at rest, Bring Your Own Key support, Okta and SAML SSO, granular role-based access, context-aware access, lockdown mode, self-service recovery, 3-year audit logs, and SIEM integrations for Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Datadog, Sumo Logic, and other webhook-based platforms.

• Dashboards, monitoring, reporting, alerts, public API, and integrations for backup operations, audit, compliance, and managed service workflows.

Requires Microsoft 365 Global Administrator consent during onboarding.