How Covid-19 will change the way we work permanently
Being sent home to continue working for weeks on end was just the start. Like a duck gracefully gliding across a lake surface the real picture was taking place out of sight. Legs were paddling faster than ever before. Elves in the night were making magic happen. Suddenly organisations needed more software seats. Private VPNs were activated in their tens of thousands. Webcams went live as laptops hummed.
Being faced with a sudden onset of massive homeworker numbers has represented a significant change for business operations and although many work places are now reconfiguring for a distanced on-premises policy, there remains the expectation that homeworking is now a part of the normal picture. In reality, flexibility is the true picture. A sudden closure of an office should no longer result in days lost. The transition should be seamless, especially if it is likely becoming a regular occurrence.
While you’re getting all of your ducks in a row, make sure you’re not forgetting the black swan that stalks your daily operations… security. Such a profound change to daily working across the globe represents a major opportunity to those who would compromise your data for their own benefit. Just how confident are you that your finance director doesn’t have an inquisitive 3 year old who likes pushing buttons when mummy is making a cup of coffee?
As a business, you already fully accept that data security within your organisation works on a shared responsibility model, hence your IT policy which must be signed by every single member of your workforce. The same is true of cloud software. So, do you understand how shared responsibility works in your relationship with Microsoft and their ubiquitous 365 Suite?
What is Shared Responsibility?
The Office 365 Shared Responsibility Model is designed to help you understand exactly what Microsoft is responsible for and what responsibility falls on you. After all, it is your data.
Who is responsible for what?
Microsoft Responsibilities
Uptime of the Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Service
Office 365 Data Replication
Recycle Bin
Infrastructure Level Security: Physical, Logical & App level security, user/admin controls
Role as data processor
Your responsibilities
Uptime of the Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Service
Office 365 Data Replication
Recycle Bin
Infrastructure Level Security: Physical, Logical & App level security, user/admin controls
As you can see Microsoft takes care of the infrastructure, but the data remains your responsibility. Just because you can see it, doesn’t mean you won’t lose it.
What do you get with Veeam from Galtec?
Backup Office 365 to any location — on premises or in the cloud
Retrieve Office 365 Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams data from a cloud-based Instance of Office 365 and uniquely back up your data weekly, daily or as often as every five minutes in Microsoft’s native format — an archive database based on Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), also known as the Jet Blue database.
Retrieve
Backup Exchange and SharePoint on premises, reducing the impact to your data centre and allowing YOU to set the frequency and timing of your backups.
Backup
Store backups in the location of your choice — including on premises, in a hyperscale public cloud (i.e., Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services) or with a local service provider.
Store backups
Protect
Galtec includes Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 as standard, giving you total access, control and protection of your Office 365 data. We are here to keep you operational in the safest way possible.
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