MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 IS A DATA LOSS DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN. If your business relies on Microsoft Office 365, you can expect reliable access to its applications with very high uptime. But many IT professionals are laboring under a dangerous misconception: that Microsoft provides fullyfledged data protection and long-term data retention for Office 365. The reality is that the emails, attachments, and shared files stored in Office 365 are not protected from the most common and serious data loss issues, ranging from simple accidental deletions to sophisticated malware attacks.