Anglicare Southern Queensland began 150 years ago when five pioneering women founded the Female and Infants Refuge in Brisbane .

From those humble beginnings Anglicare Southern Queensland expanded care services to all vulnerable people . Today the organisation helps one in 30 Queenslanders .

Anglicare Southern Queensland is one of the state ’ s most trusted non-profits . Like all non-profits , Anglicare Southern Queensland worries about cyberattacks because they ’ re increasing in the sector .

“ One of our top priorities is protecting the systems and data that support the care we provide to clients ,” said Chris Williams , Technology Services Manager at Anglicare Southern Queensland .

“ We ’ re doing everything we can to protect against cyberattacks and ransomware , so one of the first things we did was replace our legacy backup solution with a mature , enterprise-grade solution .”

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Williams said the legacy backup solution was slow , inefficient and unreliable . The backup window was 72 hours and backups were prone to failure . Recovery was slow too , taking hours or even days . Anglicare Southern Queensland was backing up to tape and wanted to switch to a cloud backup solution offering immutability , so Williams and his colleagues reviewed the solutions available , including Veeam .

“ Veeam came out on top , especially with regard to security ,” Williams said .

“ We considered a solution that would provide for immutable backups , but it requires proprietary backup repositories and we didn ’ t want to be locked into storage when we already have suitable hardware . Instead , we wanted a hardware- and software-agnostic solution , so we considered products with those features , but they didn ’ t offer fast granular recovery like Veeam .”

Williams said immutability is just one part of the story . Testing is critical too .

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Anglicare Southern Queensland provides people of all ages with support and services such as in-home and residential aged care , disability and mental health assistance , family counseling , domestic abuse protection and foster care . With roots going back to the Anglican Church in 1870 , Anglicare Southern Queensland employs 3,000 staff , engages 600 volunteers and serves more than 50,000 Queenslanders annually .

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Boosts ransomware protection with Amazon S3 immutability and Secure Restore

“ Security is our highest priority for data , so Veeam not only provides immutable backups , but it also tests them for recoverability and scans them for viruses before we restore from them ,” Williams said .

“ One of the things we like best about Veeam is fast , easy granular recovery for compliance purposes ,” Williams said .

Provides complete protection , access and control of data in Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft provides a wide array of powerful services within Office 365 , but comprehensive backup isn ’ t one of them . Veeam protects Office 365 data from accidental deletion , security threats and retention-policy gaps . www . intelligentciso . com

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