Microsoft Intune: Windows Backup for organizations in Intune

🚨 The Signal: Intune now offers Windows Backup for organizations, enabling backup and restore of user settings during device setup. This centralises endpoint configuration management and improves recovery, but requires careful policy definition to prevent data exposure.

The Impact

Intune administrators are affected, with a moderate security risk if backup policies are not securely configured.

  • Intune Admins: New capabilities for device backup and restore.
  • Security Teams: Requires review of data backup policies to prevent sensitive data exposure.
  • End Users: Improved experience for device setup and recovery of settings.
  • Compliance Teams: New control point for 'Regular Backups' attestation.

The Action

  1. Review Intune documentation for 'Windows Backup for Organizations' capabilities.
  2. Define granular Intune policies for what user settings are backed up and restored.
  3. Implement role-based access controls (RBAC) for backup and restore operations within Intune.
  4. Conduct a data classification review for settings included in backups to identify sensitive information.
  5. Regularly audit backup and restore logs for anomalous activity.

Domain: Intune · Impact: medium · Workload: Intune · Essential Eight: Regular Backups · ISM: ISM-1511, ISM-1515, ISM-1705, ISM-1706, ISM-1707, ISM-1708, ISM-1810, ISM-1811, ISM-1812, ISM-1813, ISM-1814