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  2. Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide
  3. Introduction to Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
  4. About Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide

About Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection

Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection is a cloud-based data protection and management solution that is deployed on Microsoft Azure. With Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection, you can protect, analyze, search, and manage data with SaaS applications such as Microsoft 365, Box, Salesforce, Azure AD (Microsoft Entra ID) and so on, regardless of the scale and size of data. It provides granular data management, enterprise-grade security, high performance, and scalability while using the capabilities of Microsoft Azure.

Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection supports complete backup and archiving of the SaaS application data, fast and flexible data recovery, and decoupling of data from the storage layer as well as from the SaaS provider's platform. It also supports a data management engine that supports eDiscovery, compliance, and data privacy.

Enterprise data protection ensures data security regardless of the company's size. This solution protects against evolving ransomware threats, ensuring data resilience and recoverability even during attacks. To prevent SharePoint overages, Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection optimizes data usage within SharePoint, efficiently managing and optimizing data to eliminate overages and significantly enhance overall efficiency.

For licensing details, refer to the following document:

Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection service description

Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection supports backup and recovery of the following SaaS applications:

Introduction to Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection

Table:

SaaS applications

Microsoft 365

  • Exchange Online mailboxes, folders, messages, and attachments

  • SharePoint Online sites, folders, files, permissions, and metadata

  • OneDrive for Business sites, folders, files, permissions, and metadata

  • Teams site, folders, files, permissions, and metadata

  • Teams messages, meeting recordings, and attachments

Google Workspace

  • Gmail mailboxes, folders, labels, messages, and attachments

  • Google Drive files, folders, permissions, and metadata

Box

Files, folders, permissions, and metadata

Slack

Channels, users, messages, and attachments

Salesforce

Objects, records, files, attachments, and metadata

Microsoft Entra ID

Users, Groups, Application Registrations, and Enterprises Applications

The following user interfaces are available with Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection:

Table:

Applications

Description

For administration

Administration portal

An Administrator or an authorized user can access the Administration portal using the supported web browser. The Administration portal is used to perform the following activities:

  • Add and manage connectors.

  • Perform ad hoc backups or schedule a backup.

  • Perform restore.

  • Manage user roles and permissions.

  • Create and apply policies such as deletion, retention, and tagging for data management.

  • Download the services and utilities.

  • Review Analytics by visualizing data.

  • Set Tiering policies to reduce cost.

  • Use eDiscovery to perform holds and searches.

  • Monitor the health of the tenant.

  • Access usage details and invoicing history.

Apart from the Administration portal, Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection provides the following services for the following administrative activities:

  • Export Utility for bulk data restores.

  • Apps Consent Grant Utility to grant admin consent for multiple Microsoft 365 apps at once.

For end-users

End-User portal

A user can access the user portal using a supported web browser with appropriate licenses. The End-User portal is used to perform the following activities:

  • View the data in Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection.

  • Download the data based on permissions.

  • Perform restore based on permission.

  • Share the data with other users.

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