What business data is backed up by Datto SaaS Protection?

Knowing your Office 365 data is backed up by reliable, cloud-to-cloud backup infrastructure, provides you with more time and budget to grow your business. So what exactly does Datto SaaS Protection recover?

  • OneDrive
  • Contacts
  • Calendar
  • Mail
  • SharePoint
  • MS Teams

Want to learn more about maintaining a secure and compliant business environment?

Datto SaaS Protection for Office 365 takes your data security far above and beyond the baseline industry standards to ensure that all business data in Office 365 and cloud apps data is secured, easily recoverable, and continually protected. Key features include:

  • Three-times daily backups of your business data
  • Encryption at rest and in transit
  • Quick and easy restores and exports of data

These features combine to significantly reduce the risk of losing key data, protect the business network from users, ransomware and other vulnerabilities, and support ongoing compliance efforts.

Keeping your team working on the right things

From a productivity point of view, Datto SaaS Protection for Office 365 make it easy to locate backed up files and folders. This is achieved through effective search filters that make their location quick and simple. The solution makes it possible to manage backups, see restores, and monitor all your activity via a clear and simple dashboard.

From this, it’s possible to analyse emails, files, contacts and full folders of data and, if necessary, restore files to users’ specific accounts, or to download them directly.

Do you need help convincing your colleagues about SaaS Protection? Check out this educational ebook, SaaS Protection for Office 365, and understand how to keep your critical business data people proof!

Find out more

You can read more about Datto SaaS data protection in this article.

As Datto Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.

To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

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Ensure your Office 365 data is secured and quickly recoverable

Modern business data is more than just data – it’s your business. And while it may be tempting to think that it’s safe in cloud applications, relying on cloud storage solutions that aren’t designed as backup or security tools can be risky.

So while we recognise that IT budgets are already under pressure and additional backups are yet another strain on them, in this article we look at the benefits of adding an additional protective layer to your business data in the Office 365 suite, and in other cloud applications such as Google Drive.

What are some of the risks of holding data only in cloud applications?

Among many other risks, these are some of the most common, and all contribute to unwanted levels of business downtime, or at the very least, distracted IT departments and users. To put it another way, is an additional solution worth it? These are the top 5 risks of holding business data exclusively in cloud applications:

  1. Additional costs and potential data loss from needing to keep inactive licenses open (from users that have left the business, but their data is still needed for example)
  2. Data loss due to accidental or malicious deletion by users
  3. Potential data loss when attempting to restore files
  4. Data loss when accidentally overwriting previous file drafts
  5. Ransomware and other cyber attacks

What’s the solution?

Datto SaaS Protection for Office 365 takes your data security far above and beyond the baseline industry standards to ensure that all business data in Office 365 and cloud apps data is secured, easily recoverable, and continually protected. Key features include:

  • Three-times daily backups of your business data
  • Encryption at rest and in transit
  • Quick and easy restores and exports of data

These features combine to significantly reduce the risk of losing key data, protect the business network from users, ransomware and other vulnerabilities, and support ongoing compliance efforts.

Keeping your team working on the right things

From a productivity point of view, Datto SaaS Protection for Office 365 make it easy to locate backed up files and folders. This is achieved through effective search filters that make their location quick and simple. The solution makes it possible to manage backups, see restores, and monitor all your activity via a clear and simple dashboard.

From this, it’s possible to analyse emails, files, contacts and full folders of data and, if necessary, restore files to users’ specific accounts, or to download them directly.

Do you need help convincing your colleagues about SaaS Protection? Check out this educational ebook, SaaS Protection for Office 365, and understand how to keep your critical business data people proof!

Find out more

You can read more about Datto SaaS data protection in this article.

As Datto Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.

To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

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What is the #1 cause of data loss in the cloud?

Did you know the #1 cause of data loss in the cloud is human error? While cloud-based applications like Office 365 are robust and sophisticated, they cannot protect your data from your employees.
Every day, data is lost or corrupted in the cloud due to:
  • Accidental and malicious deletion
  • Data overwriting/sync errors
  • Successful phishing scams
  • And more!
Do you need help convincing your colleagues about SaaS Protection? Check out this educational ebook, SaaS Protection for Office 365, and understand how to keep your critical business data people proof!

Find out more

You can read more about Datto SaaS data protection in this article.

As Datto Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.

To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

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Returning to the office: Technology and security in a time of transition

Many employees have worked remotely for months as a result of the global pandemic (and many still continue to do so). During that time, businesses and public sector organisations established technical measures that enabled remote workforces to operate securely. Now, as companies begin opening their doors, and employees slowly return to their offices, business owners need to audit their tech stack and security measures once again.

Returning to the office doesn’t necessarily mean abandoning all of your Work From Home set-ups. Your workforce will likely consist of some remote workers, even after businesses reopen. Completing a technology audit and gap analysis as employees transition back to the office will ensure remote workers and those returning to the office have what they need to perform well and work securely.

“As your employees begin to return to the office, take the time to develop a repeatable data-driven process you can use to assess security as a hybrid workforce,” explains Chris Henderson, Director, Information Security at Datto. “It is likely there are populations of employees who will be remote for the foreseeable future, so be sure your planning and auditing assume a continued partial remote workforce.”

Datto have developed a series of checklists to help your businesses as you reopen your offices. The checklists cover four key imperatives for your transition: employees, office space, technology, and clients.

Below are some highlights from the “Technology” checklist. This list focuses on establishing office layouts, behaviours, and guidelines that result in a safe office environment for everyone.

  • Run an audit on any workstations in the office. This will help you determine if the workstations have the necessary patches with the latest OS and other critical updates. Leverage your RMM tool to deliver the appropriate patches.
  • Audit the technology that remote employees will use. Determine if the tech is appropriate, secure, and is sufficient to enable optimal productivity.
  • Evaluate new technology deployed during the crisis. The tools your employees used to work remotely may or may not be required when you return to the office. Create a list, including any new devices, and decide if they stay or go.
  • Create a list of employees who used personal computers to Work From Home. Develop an appropriate action plan to ensure the ongoing use of personal computers or devices complies with your company’s security standards.
  • Catalogue items removed from the office. Protect your business and intellectual property by ensuring any devices, technology, files, folders, contracts, customer lists, and documents, etc. are returned to the office.
  • Conduct a gap analysis. Document the technology gaps that were exposed during the crisis and create a plan to address them.

Find out more

You can read more about Datto SaaS data protection in this article.

As Datto Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.

To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

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This article was originally published here by our partners Datto.

Reopening the workplace after COVID-19: A checklist for businesses

As the UK and other countries and cities start to ease lockdown restrictions, this handy checklist for reopening business workplaces can help you jumpstart safe and efficient returns to work, and kick-starting of business.

You and your users have been quarantined in your homes for the past few days weeks months, and now
authorities are looking to lift restrictions and open up. You may be thinking, “We’ll be back soon, and I can get out of this house!” The problem is, if you just pick up and go, and don’t prepare for having people back in the workplace, you may run into issues that could have been easily avoided. So now is the time to prepare.

This checklist is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but it can help provide guidance as you look to reopen. It’s
organised into four sections:

  • People
  • Workplace
  • Technology
  • Your Customers

Every company’s situation is of course unique, but evaluating your plan with these components in mind can help you get organised and anticipate obstacles that may stand in the way.

Extra security layers for collaboration tools

As you can read in the Technology section of the checklist, many users have been using Microsoft Teams for collaborating with colleagues during the lockdown period. Yet one in three users experience data loss in cloud applications like Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite.

With more and more businesses now using the Microsoft Office 365 suite of tools, it’s more and more vital to ensure that your data is adequately backed up to avoid accidental loss, or the risk of being held to ransom for your own data.

We’ve pulled together a list of 4 reasons to add an additional layer such as Datto SaaS protection to your organisation’s data, and this video outlines Datto’s SaaS protection services in a little more detail.

Find out more

You can read more about Datto SaaS data protection in this article.

As Datto Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.

To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

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Help during the COVID-19 crisis

The expert team at Complete IT Systems are publishing a series of guidance and tips to help you and your business through this situation. This covers all aspects of quickly providing safe, comfortable and efficient home offices for your users, including data security, collaboration tools, laptops, desktops, print and consumables, support for critical IT tasks, and more. Click here for our central COVID-19 resource hub.

 

 

Ransomware in numbers for UK SMBs

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With the recent spate of ransomware attacks in the UK proving that the threat hasn’t subsided, it is likely a good time to re-think your company’s IT security plan. To this end, we’ll be blogging over the coming weeks about the extent of the problem, the increasing creativity of hackers, the risks and exposure businesses face if ill-prepared, and some practical measures you can adopt to asses and safeguard your business against such a scenario.

What’s the impact of ransomware?

To kick off our series, we start with 10 key stats about how ransomware affects small businesses in the UK.

  1. Ransomware remains the most prominent malware threat to SMBs, with 83% reporting it as the most common security threat
  2. In the first half of 2019 alone, 61% of MSPs report attacks on their clients, with 19% reporting multiple attacks in a single day.
  3. On average, 2 in 5 SMBs report that they’ve fallen victim to a ransomware attack. SMBs with in-house IT teams are at greater risk
  4. When it comes to the ransomware threat, there is a disconnect between service providers and SMBs. 82% of MSPs are “very concerned” about the ransomware threat and 8% report their SMB clients feel the same.
  5. Phishing emails are the leading cause of successful ransomware attacks.
  6. Lack of cyber security education, weak passwords, and poor user practices are among the other top causes of attacks
  7. The aftermath of a ransomware attack can be a nightmare for any business. Almost 50% of victimised clients experienced business-threatening downtime.
  8. The average ransom requested by hackers is increasing. The average requested ransom for SMBs is now £1,990.
  9. And this as downtime costs are up by 300% year-over-year, and the cost of downtime is 53X greater than the average ransom requested in 2019.
  10. 81% of SMBs with backup and disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions in place are less likely to experience significant downtime during a ransomware attack. And victimised SMBs with BCDR in place recovered from the attack in 24 hours, or less.

This data is taken from a 2019 Datto study into how ransomware is affecting SMBs in the UK.

In our next article, we’ll look in more at how UK SMBs can plan for and prevent ransomware attacks.

How can I find out more?

As Datto Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.

To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

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Live Webinar: Datto Intelligent Business Continuity Demo (28th June 2017)

Wednesday 28th June @ 11:00 BST

In these uncertain times of ransomware attacks and broader cyber security threats, your business can achieve data backup, recovery and business continuity for local, virtual and cloud environments – all within a single platform.

Are you currently providing the highest level of business continuity? If your company is not running Datto’s Intelligent Business Continuity, you could be missing critical pieces of the larger puzzle.

Our live webinar will explain the components of the solution and offer the opportunity to ask questions of the Datto and Complete IT Systems team.

How to attend: 

1. Please join my meeting.
https://www4.gotomeeting.com/join/765392965
Scheduled meeting time:
11:00am BST on Wednesday 28th June 2017

2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) – a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.

United Kingdom: +44 330 221 0088

Access Code: 765-392-965
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting

Meeting ID: 765-392-965

Ahead of the live webinar you can also click here to view a short video of the Datto SIRIS 3 solution and how it can help your business ensure full continuity and data protection.

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to welcoming you to the event on Wednesday.