Identity-first cyber recovery for Microsoft Entra and Microsoft 365

Recover Microsoft 365 safely, starting with identity.

KavachIQ helps Microsoft 365 teams assess blast radius, restore Microsoft Entra controls first, recover critical users next, and bring business data back online with confidence.

Entra First
Restore identity before data
Blast Radius
See what changed, who is affected
Guided Recovery
Pre-computed, business-safe order
Microsoft-Native
Built on Microsoft Graph

What actually breaks in a Microsoft 365 incident

Real incidents rarely look like a clean data-loss event. They involve identity changes, destructive admin actions, and a tangle of affected users and systems.

Compromised identities

Attackers disable MFA, grant themselves Global Admin, or add service principals with elevated rights.

Policy and role drift

Conditional access, administrative units, and role assignments are quietly modified and hard to revert.

Destructive deletions

Mailboxes, SharePoint sites, Teams, or entire groups deleted. Recycle bins fill up. Some items are unrecoverable after 30 or 93 days.

Ransomware and encryption

Files renamed in bulk across OneDrive and SharePoint. Versioning alone rarely gets the business back to a usable state.

Group membership changes

Security group and license group membership shifts silently, breaking access for real users.

Blast radius unknown

Who was affected, what changed, and what to restore first is the hardest part of any incident.

Why backup alone is not enough

Backup preserves data. Recovery is a different problem.

Microsoft 365 and third-party backup products do the first job well: they keep copies of mailboxes, sites, files, and increasingly identity configuration. That matters.

Recovery is where most teams struggle. When an incident happens, the question is not "do I have a backup?" It is "what changed, who is affected, what do I restore first, and how do I know we are actually back online?"

KavachIQ focuses on the recovery problem: understanding blast radius, restoring identity controls first, sequencing critical users and systems, and verifying business recovery with evidence.

A six-phase recovery workflow for Microsoft 365

Protect, Monitor, Detect, Assess, Recover, Verify. Each phase is purpose-built for identity-first Microsoft 365 recovery.

STEP 01

Protect

Capture protected identity and workload state across Microsoft Entra and Microsoft 365. Snapshot policies, roles, groups, OAuth grants, and data.

STEP 02

Monitor

Track ongoing workload and identity activity. Baselines for change rate, privileged role counts, and conditional access drift.

STEP 03

Detect

Flag destructive changes, ransomware-like activity, and suspicious identity drift with evidence.

STEP 04

Assess

Compute blast radius. Diff state across snapshots. Identify affected users, identities, policies, and workloads.

STEP 05

Recover

Execute identity-first restore and rollback in the safest business order. Guided by pre-computed recovery plans.

STEP 06

Verify

Confirm business recovery with checksum validation, policy-active checks, and sign-in validation.

Why identity-first recovery matters

Data recovery without identity recovery is incomplete.

Identity controls the blast radius

Admins, privileged roles, conditional access policies, OAuth grants, and group membership decide who has access to what.

  • Global Admin and privileged role assignments
  • Conditional access policies and MFA enforcement
  • Service principals, OAuth grants, app consent
  • Security group and license group membership

Restore in the right order

Recovering mailboxes before restoring identity controls is unsafe. Attackers and broken policies stay in place until identity is corrected.

  1. 01Identity controls: roles, policies, OAuth grants
  2. 02Critical users: executives, admins, compliance owners
  3. 03High-priority departments and sites
  4. 04Full business data, verified end-to-end

Purpose-built for Microsoft 365 recovery

Six capabilities that work together to get you back online.

Entra Recovery

Snapshot and restore 12 Entra ID object types: users, groups, roles, conditional access, OAuth grants, service principals, and more.

Criticality-Based Recovery

Score every user and workload by role weight, data sensitivity, activity, and business dependency. Recover what matters first.

Blast Radius Analysis

See exactly what changed, who was affected, and which systems are at risk. Diff identity and data state across snapshots.

Guided Recovery Plans

Pre-computed NIST-aligned plans: identity first, critical users next, business data after. Refreshed on a schedule, ready when you need them.

Microsoft 365 Data Recovery

Unlimited point-in-time restore across Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. Granular per-item and workload-wide restore.

Recovery Verification

Recovery confidence scored with evidence. Checksum validation, policy-active checks, and sign-in tests confirm you are actually back online.

Protected workloads
Microsoft Entra
12 identity object types, policy drift, role changes
Exchange Online
Mailboxes, calendars, contacts
OneDrive
User files and folders
SharePoint
Sites, lists, documents
Teams
Chats, channels, files
Recovery scenario

How a recovery actually unfolds

KavachIQ moves through six phases: protect, monitor, detect, assess, recover, verify.

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Why KavachIQ

Recovery is a specialized problem. Compare how different approaches handle it.

CapabilityKavachIQNative M365 toolsGeneric backupManual restoreBroad cyber suites
Identity-first recovery sequencingpartial
Entra ID config snapshot and diffpartialpartialpartial
Criticality-based restore order
Blast radius analysispartial
Pre-computed recovery planspartial
Unified M365 data recoverypartial
Recovery verification with evidencepartialpartial

KavachIQ is purpose-built for identity-first Microsoft 365 recovery. Other categories solve adjacent problems.

Built for the people who actually run recovery

Operator-grade workflows. Enterprise-ready trust.

Microsoft 365 and Entra admins

A practical recovery workflow for the people inside Microsoft 365 every day. Built on Microsoft Graph with tenant-scoped access.

  • Identity and data in one workflow
  • Granular, per-item restore
  • Minimal setup, tenant-scoped

IT and security leaders

Know your recovery time, recovery order, and recovery confidence before an incident happens. Close the gap between backup and business recovery.

  • Pre-computed recovery plans
  • Recovery verification with evidence
  • Aligned to NIST SP 800-184

Procurement and risk

Enterprise controls on day one. Per-tenant keys, audit trail, and compliance-mapped safeguards for SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and DORA reviews.

  • AES-256-GCM, per-tenant keys
  • Full audit trail
  • Compliance-mapped evidence

Enterprise-grade security

Encryption, immutability, and compliance controls on day one.

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AES-256-GCM
Encryption at Rest
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Per-Tenant Keys
Key Isolation
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WORM Storage
Immutable Backups
SOC 2
16 controls mapped
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GDPR
8 articles mapped
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HIPAA
14 safeguards mapped
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SSO + MFA
Entra ID OIDC
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Audit Trail
Full logging

See KavachIQ in your Microsoft 365 environment

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