Backblaze Enterprise Control for Computer Backup Available

This article, published on January 17, 2024, was written by Yev Pusin, senior director of marketing at Backblaze, Inc.

Now Available: Enterprise Control for Computer Backup

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If you’re responsible for protecting company data, you know that any number of things can jeopardize the data on workstations, be it human error or natural disaster. It’s your job to reduce risk, but to do that you need the ability to fine-tune your backup systems.

Backblaze Computer Backup gives you an easy, automatic, centrally-managed solution for backup. And, starting now, IT administrators can take greater control of their endpoint backups – from how employees authenticate to what they can and cannot restore – with the introduction of our new Enterprise Control for Computer Backup.

Ready to Turn the Dials?
Enterprise Control is available for enterprises with more than 20 Computer Backup licenses at an additional $2 per license.

What’s New in Enterprise Control?
Whether you’re an IT manager or an MSP responsible for protecting business data, Enterprise Control allows you to meet your full BC and data security standards for workstation data and better support a hybrid and remote workforce.

Here’s what you can do with Enterprise Control:

Fine-Grained Access Permissions: Manage access to group member data on a granular level for enterprise operations. This includes control over members’ ability to delete their own backups, admin’s ability to delete member backups, and admin’s permissions for restoring data on a member’s behalf.

Advanced Single Sign-On: Enable OpenID Connect (OIDC) single sign-on (SSO) and the ability to use tools like Okta and Azure Active Directory in addition to GSuite and Microsoft. This enhances security control, allowing you to ramp up authentication practices, verifying member identity and streamlining identity management.

Group Management Controls: Prevent members from leaving a group, taking data with them, or ordering restore hard drives or snapshot hard drives without permission. You also have the option to hide the ability to update the client through the desktop app, rename or purge end user backups from the web application, and prevent Group members from updating the client app on their own.

Compliance Support: Benefits businesses who are mandated to apply greater controls given compliance, cyber insurance, or heightened RPO and RTO requirements.

We’ve been using Backblaze to reliably back up our 400 endpoints for years. We’re excited at the possibility of having even more control to meet our growing administration and data protection needs with this new Computer Backup with Enterprise Control solution.

Sintya Pappagallo, IT manager, North Point Ministries, enterprise control, gives you the tuardrails: “Backblaze Computer Backup reduces IT burden with its simplicity, and consistently ranked as Wirecutter’s Best Online Cloud Backup Service. Now, we’ve wrapped that simplicity with the enterprise features larger organizations require so you can reduce risk, achieve compliance, and better support your cybersecurity and disaster recovery goals.”

How to Upgrade to Enterprise Control?
It is available for Groups with 20 or more Computer Backup licenses.