Microsoft Office 365 is a powerful productivity and collaboration application suite that is powering remote work and learning. The reduced infrastructure management overhead associated with moving these core services to the cloud makes them an easy choice for IT management looking to free up engineering resources, but the promise of their simplicity and the understanding that the data is now “in the cloud” can sometimes lead to incorrect assumptions about the resilience and availability of these services and the data they rely on. All organizations need data backup protection, but this is especially true in the public sector.