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Essential Eight
Regular Backups
Regular Backups: Secure Critical Data and Ensure Business Continuity
Recover fast from cyberattacks, outages, or system failures with secure, automated backups
How ‘Regular Backups’ Supports the Essential Eight
Regular Backups are a critical layer in the Essential Eight strategy.
Minimise Downtime and Data Loss from Cyber Incidents
Regular Backups with Azure Backup, Datto BCDR, and AvePoint: Automated, Fast, Secure
Your organisation’s data is one of its most valuable assets. If data is lost or locked by ransomware, the result is irreparable financial and reputational damage. Unreliable or incomplete regular backups and recovery plans can take weeks to get implemented or fail entirely. In the Essential Eight, Regular Backups act as a strategic control to ensure rapid recovery, business continuity, and operational resilience.
At Exigo Tech, we help organisations implement policy-driven, automated backup solutions using Azure Backup, Datto BCDR, and AvePoint. Our approach ensures you stay aligned with the Essential Eight, meet compliance requirements, and support a Zero Trust posture.
Wondering how regular backups support your overall business operations? Start here.
How ‘Regular Backups’ Supports the Essential Eight
Regular Backups are a critical layer in the Essential Eight strategy. They ensure that essential data, applications, and configurations are backed up, tested, and recoverable in the event of a cyber incident. Regular Backups focus on creating daily backups of essential systems, storing them in protected environments, and regularly testing them. By applying regular backup policies, your organisation gains confidence that it can restore operations quickly in case of a disaster.
Strategic alignment:
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Let’s you recover from ransomware, insider threats, or major system failures
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Fits with Zero Trust by keeping backup copies isolated and safe
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Helps meet ACSC, ISO 27001, and other industry compliance rules
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Works with other Essential Eight controls to restore systems after an incident
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Protects the organisation’s finances and reputation
Benefits:
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Fast recovery after cyber incidents or hardware failures
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Reduces downtime and the cost of disruptions
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Keeps operations running during migration or outages
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Gives leaders confidence that recovery is always possible
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Frees internal teams from manual backup and testing processes
How We Do Regular Backups: Azure Backup, Datto BCDR & AvePoint
Our Regular Backups service is delivered using Azure Backup, Datto Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR), and AvePoint. Depending on your environment, we help you choose the right tool or combine them to achieve complete coverage, from on-premises servers to cloud applications. We automate backup schedules, test recovery processes, and make sure backups are encrypted and stored securely. This approach ensures your organisation meets Essential Eight maturity expectations while supporting Zero Trust security by keeping backups protected and isolated from primary systems.
Why Azure Backup?
- Cloud-based and fully encrypted backups for Microsoft workloads and hybrid systems
- Flexible schedules and retention to meet business and compliance needs
- Integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 and Azure
- Automated scheduling and recovery testing
- Policy-based retention for audit and legal requirements
The business benefits:
- Cuts costs by removing the need for on-premises backup hardware
- Grows with your business without added complexity
- Lower regulatory and compliance risk
- Predictable, scalable backup costs
- Restores systems quickly from anywhere to reduce downtime
Why Datto BCDR?
- All-in-one backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solution
- Instant virtualisation of backups to restore operations in minutes
- Built-in ransomware detection and automatic backup verification
- On-site and cloud copies for extra safety
- Image-based backups for full system recovery
The business benefits:
- Reduces downtime costs through near-instant recovery
- Maintains business continuity during outages
- Prevents ransomware from corrupting backup data
- Prioritises restoring the most important systems first
- Provides clear recovery time commitments for executive assurance
Why AvePoint?
- Protects Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, and Exchange data
- Restores from a single file to a whole environment
- Unlimited backup retention with secure storage
- Prevents loss from accidental deletion or malicious actions
- Provides comprehensive reporting for compliance audits
The business benefits:
- Saves productivity by quickly restoring lost data
- Reduces IT workload with automated backup and recovery
- Enhances governance with clear, auditable backup history
- Rapid recovery of only what’s needed
- Strengthens security for hybrid and remote teams
Achieve Maturity Level 3 in Regular Backups with Exigo Tech
The Essential Eight Maturity Model defines backup maturity levels as a measure of how well you can recover from data loss events or a cyber incident:
Level 0
No or ad-hoc backups, not tested or secured.
Level 1
Regular, secure, point-in-time backups; tested restore; unprivileged users can’t alter others’ backups.
Level 2
Privileged users (except backup admins) can’t access/alter backups.
Level 3
No one (except backup admins) can access their own backups; backup admins can’t alter/delete during retention.
We help you get to and stay at Maturity Level 3, building reliable, automated, and tested regular backup processes that meet compliance demands and align with a Zero Trust mindset. This gives your organisation strong recovery capability, reduced risk, and peace of mind at the executive level.
What Sets Exigo Tech Apart
We are already at Maturity Level 3 across all Essential Eight strategies
Expertise in Azure Backup, Datto BCDR, and AvePoint integration
Aligned to the Zero Trust mindset and Essential Eight strategies
End-to-end service from design to recovery drills
Business-first focus: protecting revenue, customers, and brand
Don’t Let Data Loss Put Your Business at Risk
Get expert-led backup solutions designed for compliance, resilience, and rapid recovery
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