Best AvePoint alternative for Microsoft 365 security

Q: Isn't AvePoint backup enough?

AvePoint backs up mailboxes, files, and SharePoint items. If an attacker breaches your tenant, AvePoint brings back your data, but the configuration that let them in is rebuilt by hand over weeks. CoreView hardens the configuration, detects tampering in near real time, and restores the configuration plane after a bad change or an attack.

Most M365 incidents aren't stolen files, they're a reconfigured tenant. CoreView hardens your configurations, detects any drift and restores the tenant to a known-good state in minutes.

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AvePoint recovers your data. CoreView hardens the Microsoft 365 environment it lives in.

CoreView

Hardens the configuration, detects tampering in near real time, restores the configuration plane after a bad change or an attack.

When someone changes a configuration setting, you see what and who changed it, so you can restore the tenant to a known-good state in minutes.

AvePoint

Backup of mailboxes, files, and SharePoint, lifecycle, and data security across SaaS clouds.

If an attacker breaches your tenant, AvePoint brings back your data. The configuration that let them in is rebuilt by hand, over weeks.

Why IT and security teams choose CoreView over AvePoint

Restore the tenant, not just the data

A misconfiguration or an attack becomes a one-day recovery, not a one-quarter rebuild. CoreView takes point-in-time snapshots and rewinds in one click, even if you have been locked out of your tenant.

See risks instantly, stay hardened forever

Connect CoreView and surface critical risks immediately, no months-long baseline build. It ships CIS and Essential 8 baselines out of the box, then watches them continuously and flags any drift.

Shrink the blast radius

Enforce least privilege across every workload: Virtual Tenant Segmentation scopes admin rights across Entra, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Intune, Active Directory, and Exchange, with cross-tenant delegation built in.

AvePoint Confidence Platform vs CoreView, side by side

Harden, detect, restore — the three jobs that decide how fast you recover a Microsoft 365 tenant.

Features

CoreView

ONE Platform

AvePoint

Confidence Platform

Harden - reducing the attack surface before an attack

Configuration coverage

How much of your tenant configuration can it manage?

Controls the whole Microsoft 365 configuration plane across Entra, Intune, Defender, Exchange, Purview, SharePoint, and OneDrive

Governs content, sharing, and lifecycle across M365, not the tenant configuration plane

Security baselines

Do you get industry and custom baselines?

CIS and Essential 8 industry baselines live from day one, plus custom baselines you define for your own standard

No ready-made baselines; you build every rule and baseline yourself

Least-privilege delegation

How is admin scope granted?

Virtual Tenant Segmentation across 400+ properties, with cross-tenant delegation built in

EnPower virtual tenants scope admin across workloads, but not cross-tenant

Detect - catching configuration drift and tampering as it happens

Drift detection

Will you know the moment a setting changes, and who changed it?

Near-real-time drift detection with a who, what, and when forensic timeline, and years of history

Policy enforcement that reverts drift on a scheduled, hours-long activity-feed cycle

Monitoring scope

Which configurations are watched?

Monitors the full configuration plane, including privileged Entra app creation and OAuth consent grants, by design

Watches content and data exposure, not tenant configuration or privileged-app and OAuth activity

Restore - recovering after a bad change or attack

Configuration Backup

Is your tenant configuration captured and versioned?

Point-in-time backups of the full configuration, with years of change history

Backs up content (mailboxes, files, SharePoint items), not tenant configuration

Configuration Restore

Can you put the configuration back and from where?

One-click rewind to a known-good golden image, even when the tenant is locked out, across one tenant or many, including hybrid AD/Exchange

No configuration restore, content only

CoreView certifications

ISO 27001 & ISO 27018

CoreView is ISO 27001 and ISO 27018 certified, demonstrating our expertise and commitment to international standards for data security and privacy. These certifications provide our customers with confidence that their data is protected to the highest standards.

SOC 2, Type II & SOC 3

CoreView holds SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 compliance, recognized standards for transparency in security. Regular third-party audits ensure that our security posture meets and exceeds the most demanding industry requirements.

ISO 9001 Certification

Our ISO 9001 certification reflects CoreView’s dedication to quality and customer satisfaction. It highlights our commitment to operational excellence, delivering reliable solutions and securing M365 environments with superior standards.

IRAP

CoreView is IRAP certified, ensuring alignment with the Australian government’s stringent security requirements. This demonstrates our ability to meet and surpass regulatory standards for safeguarding sensitive data.

CoreView integrates CIS Benchmarks, providing robust tools and resources to implement the Critical Security Controls. Our adherence supports organizations in strengthening their cybersecurity strategies.

CIS Benchmarks

GovRamp Premier Member

As a GovRAMP Premier Member, CoreView demonstrates a strong commitment to cloud security for public sector organizations, aligning with rigorous standards for trusted, compliant SaaS delivery at scale.

Frequently asked questions

Isn't AvePoint backup enough?

AvePoint Cloud Backup restores the data in your tenant mailboxes, files, and SharePoint items. It does not restore tenant configuration like Conditional Access, OAuth consents, transport rules, Intune, or identity policy. After a configuration-driven incident, that is the gap that takes weeks to rebuild by hand.

CoreView restores your entire Microsoft 365 tenant configuration in minutes and co-exists with your content backup.

AvePoint says it backs up configurations now. What is the difference?

Ask what they can restore in a single action. AvePoint Policies for M365 reverts a drifted setting on a roughly two-hour activity-feed cycle; it does not take a point-in-time backup of tenant configuration state you can roll back to. CoreView does it, with full change history.

Does AvePoint provide delegation?

Yes. AvePoint EnPower virtual tenants scope admin rights across Microsoft 365 workloads. CoreView uses the same primitive to scope both human admins and AI agents, including cross-tenant delegation.

Is CoreView suitable for the public sector?

Yes. Our customer base includes state and local governments, education, and agencies operating under CISA SCuBA and BOD 25-01. CoreView maps its configuration baselines to CIS Microsoft 365 v6.0.0 and SCuBA, and holds ISO 27001, ISO 27018, and SOC 2 Type II. CoreView is also a GovRAMP Premier Member.

We have run AvePoint for years. Why add CoreView?

CoreView adds what AvePoint does not: configuration backup and restore, and least privilege across every workload, alongside your existing data backup investment.