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Any tool that is crucial for your daily operations – from Microsoft Teams or emails to OneDrive files – needs backup and reliable restore strategies. This way, you support the business continuity, compliance efforts, credibility, and overall security stance of your business. Keep in mind – without a well-thought-out backup strategy, you are risking being exposed to: Let’s take a closer look at aspects affecting your Microsoft 365 data.

From minor hiccups to full-blown blackouts, the first half of 2025 made it clear that even the most trusted DevOps platforms are not immune to disruption. In this ecosystem, every commit, push, and deployment relies on complex systems that, despite their brilliance, are fragile. Like a Jenga tower of integrations, it takes just one wrong move – a misclicked setting, a leaked secret, an API failure – for the whole thing to wobble.

DevOps has already become an integrated part of almost every industry and its development process. Whether it’s technology, automotive, healthcare, or any other industry, it’s hard to imagine an organization that doesn’t rely on DevOps. Numbers speak better: the majority of consumers are from the technology sector – 44%, yet there are a lot of organizations from other industries that depend on DevOps – financial, education, etc.

Malware, as one of many cyber threats, is not some random annoyance. Yet, there is nothing polite about it. It bypasses your firewall and establishes itself in your system. Then, escalated privileges are granted, and processes are killed. If you are particularly unlucky, malware encrypts your core and sticks around like a parasite in the CI/CD. So, it’s not about chaos but orchestration. That means you’re forgetting about something.

We can all agree that Microsoft 365 powers the daily operations of many modern organizations. These often include data critical for business continuity, which simply flows through Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint; therefore, even a short service outage could negatively impact productivity or regulatory compliance. However, despite its importance, disaster recovery, or DR, for Microsoft Office is often misunderstood or assumed to be fully covered by Microsoft.

In 2020, a DevOps team at a mid-sized fintech startup almost lost its entire source code. A failed container update caused a cascading failure in their self-hosted GitLab instance. The backup was… somewhere. No one checked it in weeks. The recovery process took three days. The cost was around $70,000 in downtime and customer compensation. The event wasn’t a matter of not having a backup strategy. It was a matter of assuming someone, somewhere, had run the proper function at the right time.

It’s no news that Jira Automation Rules (JAR) sit at the center of how teams choose to streamline work. They triage requests and escalate incidents. At the same time, they keep systems running smoothly without requiring human intervention. For teams managing ITSM, DevOps, and cross-functional service operations, these rules are operational logic with many conveniences.

Welcome to the DevOps multiverse. Here, code is currency, while platforms like GitHub, Jira, and Confluence power critical infrastructure. Here, even the smallest misstep can trigger a chain reaction measured in gigabytes of leaked data, thousands of compromised credentials, and millions of dollars in financial losses, not to mention reputational damage. These risks aren’t theoretical.

Fintech and banking ranked among the top three most targeted industries in 2024, according to the CISO’s guide to DevOps threats. Real-world incidents underscore this trend: Byte Federal, the leading Bitcoin ATM operator in the U.S., suffered a breach linked to a GitLab vulnerability. Meanwhile, financial software provider Iress and crypto wallet company Ginco were both targeted by threat actors exploiting GitHub repositories. Source: 2024 DevOps Threats Unwrapped.

Git, as a version control system, is very popular nowadays. Developers often make mistakes or encounter errors, such as accidentally deleting files. It is convenient not just because you can do many different operations with it, including such git commands as git revert, git push, git reset, git rebase, or many more. But it can also permit you to restore deleted files. Developers can recover from these mistakes using Git’s tools. Fortunately, for us, Git really has the right tools to do so.