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How VaultFuzion compares for Entra ID backup

VaultFuzion (VentraID) backs up your clients’ Entra ID configuration — conditional access, groups, app registrations and service principals — with drift detection and point-in-time restore, as part of the same multi-tenant platform as your Microsoft 365 backup. This page compares that approach with the common patterns in the Entra ID backup market.

The market, briefly

Entra ID (Azure AD) backup and recovery is addressed by identity-resilience specialists and broad backup suites alike — names in the space, as of October 2026, include AvePoint, Veeam, Keepit, Quest and Cayosoft. They differ in how much of the configuration they capture, whether they detect drift, and how they restore. The comparison below contrasts VaultFuzion’s approach with the general patterns, not any single product.

Approach comparison

CapabilityVaultFuzionAlternative AAlternative BAlternative C
ScopeConfiguration graph: conditional access, groups, app registrations, service principalsUsers and groupsUsers, groups and some policyVaries
RestorePoint-in-time restore of configurationRe-create from exportPoint-in-time (subset)Varies
Drift detectionAgainst a known-good baselineNot includedAdd-onVaries
StorageBring your own S3 bucket (BYOS)Vendor-hostedVendor-hostedVaries
Part of unified M365 backupYes — same platform and consoleSeparate productSeparate productVaries
PricingPublished add-on pricingQuote-onlyPublishedQuote-only
Treat the alternatives as general market patterns. The point that matters most for recovery is scope: an identity attack manipulates the policy graph — a narrowed conditional-access policy, a new administrator, a broad consent grant — so backing up only users and groups leaves the part that actually runs your security posture uncaptured. VaultFuzion backs up the configuration and detects drift against a baseline so you can see what changed and restore it.

Frequently asked questions

Why back up Entra ID if Microsoft already runs it?

Microsoft runs the service; you own the configuration. Microsoft now offers a native Entra ID Backup (daily snapshots, roughly a week of history, soft-deleted and modified objects only — no hard-deletes — and it excludes device and directory-synced objects), but it is in-tenant and short-retention. An accidental change, a bad script or an attacker adding persistence can break conditional access or escalate privilege, and anything found after the native window is gone. An independent, long-retention copy of the configuration lets you see what changed and restore to a known-good point well beyond that window.

What does VaultFuzion back up in Entra ID?

The configuration graph — conditional access policies, groups and memberships, app registrations and service principals, and related tenant settings — not just the user list.

How is VaultFuzion different from other Entra ID backup tools?

It backs up the configuration with drift detection against a known-good baseline and point-in-time restore, and it is part of the same multi-tenant platform as your Microsoft 365 backup — one console, per-tenant isolation, one encryption key per tenant.

Can VaultFuzion detect configuration drift?

Yes. VentraID compares the current configuration against a captured baseline and surfaces what changed, so drift is visible before it becomes an incident.

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Back up the configuration, not just the users

See how VentraID captures the Entra ID configuration graph with drift detection and point-in-time restore.