The ASD Blueprint helps secure Microsoft Power Platform, but governance, availability and recovery solve different problems. This article explores where native recovery fits, where its limits matter, and how Australian organisations can build a more complete recovery strategy.

Backups prove data was copied. Recovery assurance proves your organisation can recover trusted data, identity, permissions and evidence when it matters.

Microsoft’s Storm-2949 research shows how identity compromise can become a cloud-wide breach across Microsoft 365, Azure resources, Key Vault secrets, storage, SQL databases and virtual machines. This article explains why identity recovery must restore a known-good control state, not just access.

Backup storage is often bought on capacity, deduplication and cost. But when recovery is urgent, the real test is whether the backup target can support fast, reliable recovery under pressure. This article explains why backup storage architecture, inline dedupe, rehydration, snapshots, scale-out growth and ransomware resilience matter.