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Secure your Office 365 data with Speedster IT
Safeguarding your Business Continuity
Microsoft’s Office 365 lacks comprehensive backup. Their focus is on infrastructure, not data recovery. Whilst they offer limited safeguards, these don’t protect against accidental deletions, cyber-attacks, or meet long-term retention needs.
A third-party backup solution is essential for robust Office 365 data protection. These tools provide point-in-time recovery, granular restores, and long-term retention. They also guard against insider threats and ransomware. Invest in a dedicated Office 365 backup solution to ensure business continuity and data security.
Here at Speedster IT, we offer a backup service for all productivity applications including Office 365, we are SharePoint Consultants in London and other systems, to help keep your business running in a secure and safe manner. Your business security is our priority.
Syncing alone doesn’t safeguard against corruption or ensure proper recovery. Microsoft recommends using a third-party backup provider for secure storage of historical company data.
Business owners are responsible for managing all sensitive information used, shared, and downloaded via these platforms.
By choosing to partner with an IT supplier, like our team, you’ll end up saving money, time and most importantly avoid any kind of security breach or ransomware attack.
Here at Speedster IT, we offer a fully compliant backup service for all manner of business apps, including Sharepoint and provide peace of mind as well as your very own IT support team- whenever you need us.
Contact our team today to discuss partnership options for your third-party backup needs. Learn how we can help your business thrive securely.
No. Microsoft provides infrastructure redundancy (so their servers don't fail) but does not provide a business backup service for deleted or corrupted data. If a user deletes emails or files, Microsoft's recovery window is limited (30–93 days depending on settings). For genuine business data protection, you need a third-party Microsoft 365 backup solution.
A Microsoft 365 backup covers Exchange Online (email), SharePoint document libraries, OneDrive files, Teams chat and channel messages, and Teams meetings recordings. Backups are taken multiple times per day and retained for a configurable period (typically 1–7 years), allowing point-in-time recovery of any item.
Speedster IT recommends Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Acronis Cyber Protect for SME Microsoft 365 backup. Both provide granular recovery (individual email, file, or contact), immutable backups that ransomware cannot encrypt, and simple monthly billing. Speedster IT manages the backup service as part of its managed IT offering.
Yes — provided the backup is stored in a separate, isolated location that ransomware cannot reach (a different cloud tenant or an immutable backup repository). If ransomware encrypts your SharePoint or OneDrive, a good backup allows you to restore to a clean point-in-time from before the attack. This is one of the most important ransomware defences.
Third-party Microsoft 365 backup solutions typically cost £2–£5 per user per month. For a 20-user business, that is £40–£100 per month for complete protection of all email, files, and Teams data — a small cost compared to the risk of permanent data loss or a lengthy ransomware recovery.
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