If you’re thinking about compliance as a box that needs to be checked, you’re not seeing the full picture.
Meeting compliance standards, laws, and regulations is a major milestone, but it’s just the beginning of the journey. Whether it’s SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA or any number of other standards, compliance is about much more than checking a box. It’s about achieving true data resilience for your organization—strengthening business continuity, enhancing risk management, and enabling innovation in the cloud.
Modern work platforms like monday.com are built with security in mind. They offer world-class infrastructure, robust access controls, and detailed activity logging. But as these tools become central to business operations, new considerations emerge for you and your team:
- Who’s responsible for safeguarding your organization’s data in SaaS platforms?
- What happens if your data is lost? Is it recoverable or lost for good?
Data loss happens. It’s not an “if” but a “when.” SaaS data resilience means having a bullet-proof plan to get data back when it happens to you.
It bears discussing how data can be lost in SaaS platforms:
Malicious deletion is one possibility; often this could be a disgruntled employee or other insider deleting or corrupting critical data. Ransomware is another; bad actors gaining access, encrypting critical data then literally holding it for ransom. Accidental deletion is perhaps the most common cause of data loss; a well-intentioned employee simply making a mistake. And when you add agentic AI, third-party apps, and scripts into the mix, mistakes can cascade quickly, doing a lot of damage to data in very little time.
The hidden cost of “compliance theater”
The shift to cloud-based platforms has unlocked enormous speed and flexibility for teams across the globe—but it’s also introduced blind spots.
According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.88 million USD. In 2023, the same report said that more than 82% of breaches involved data stored in the cloud. With cybercrime damages projected to reach $10.5 trillion in 2025, the stakes are only growing.
So why do so many IT and business leaders still treat SaaS data loss as someone else’s problem? And why do some organizations wait until they experience a SaaS data loss event to make SaaS data backup and recovery a priority?
Because “compliance” often gets confused with “security.” And both are too often mistaken for “resilience.”
In reality, compliance frameworks and laws ensure your systems are built responsibly. But they don’t guarantee that your data is protected—or recoverable after an accident, breach, or integration misfire.
From checklists to continuity: Rethinking SaaS risk
Best-in-class platforms like monday.com offer some built-in restore capabilities; if a task or a board ends up in the trash bin, it can be brought back. These are important features, but data resilience and compliance still require an independent backup plan.
That’s why more IT and compliance leaders are treating SaaS backup as an essential part of their infrastructure. According to Gartner, 15% of enterprises already look at SaaS backup as a critical requirement—and that number is expected to grow to 75% by 2028.
Back up monday.com with Rewind to bridge the gap
Data in SaaS platforms is a shared responsibility. The Shared Responsibility Model is universal across SaaS platforms and makes it clear that organizations need to take steps to protect their own data within those systems. The provider secures the platform. You’re responsible for protecting your own data within it.
In short, monday.com secures its infrastructure and has systems in place to backup and restore platform data. However, users need to back up their own data.
That’s where Rewind comes in.
monday.com is a flexible, no-code/low-code Work Operating System (Work OS) that empowers organizations to customize workflows, automate processes, and centralize team collaboration across departments and functions.
Rewind is an integrated SaaS backup and recovery platform, purpose-built to provide automated, secure, and reliable data protection for mission-critical SaaS, built with compliance in mind.
Rewind’s native backup and recovery solution for monday.com bridges the gap and supports compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other standards with automated, encrypted backups and fast, granular restores.
With Rewind in monday.com, you can:
- Restore deleted or changed items without rolling back your whole account
- Meet retention and audit requirements with verifiable, immutable backups
- Control backup data residency, SSO, access roles, and more, from a single pane of glass
- Create a bullet-proof disaster recovery plan to minimize downtime caused by a data event
What real SaaS data resilience looks like
True SaaS data resilience means planning not just to avoid data loss incidents, but being able to recover from them—quickly, efficiently, and with minimal disruption and downtime.
It means understanding and adopting industry-standard rules to back up monday.com, i.e. the 3-2-1 rule for SaaS backups. The 3-2-1 rule states that you need three copies of your data, stored in two different cloud locations, one of which is not the SaaS platform itself…because backing up your SaaS data with your SaaS provider is like backing up your hard drive to your hard drive. True data resilience in the cloud requires automated daily backups and a clear disaster recovery plan to restore data and minimize disruption in the event of data loss.
These aren’t just best practices. This is the bar for enterprise compliance and data resilience. With Rewind, it’s available to all monday.com organizations.
Closing the gap between policy and practice
Following checklists won’t safeguard your data and SaaS platforms can’t recover your unique user data that’s been deleted, corrupted, or overwritten.
Whether your teams and workflows already rely on monday.com or you’re just getting started, the best time to build data resilience with a monday.com backup plan is yesterday. Failing that, it’s now.
Get started with Rewind for monday.com or find Rewind Backups in the monday.com Marketplace.
