Redstor is cyber resilience for a school’s whole estate — Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, identity, servers, SIMS and cloud workloads recovered from one platform, with copies an attacker cannot alter.
Ceidwad helps schools work out which of the three bundles fits, what it needs to cover — and where the cheaper one is the right answer.
Microsoft and Google are responsible for keeping their services available. What lives inside your tenant — the files, the mailboxes, the accounts, the Teams and Classroom material a year of teaching is sitting in — is yours. Their own shared-responsibility models say so.
A recycle bin and a retention policy are not a recovery position. They are bounded by time, they follow a deletion whoever made it, and they are no answer at all to ransomware that arrived through an account with every right to be there.
The question is never “is it backed up?” It is “how long until the office is working again, and who is doing it?”
A school estate is not one thing. It is a Microsoft tenant, probably a Google one too, an identity directory, a server that has been in the same cupboard for nine years, an MIS holding every pupil record, and whatever has quietly moved to Azure. Recovering them from four different places, under pressure, is how a two-day incident becomes a two-week one.
Mail, files, Teams and SharePoint — including Class Notebook.
Drive, mail and shared material — including Classroom.
The identity directory itself, so accounts and groups come back too.
Including SIMS, which is the one nobody can teach without.
The workloads that moved to the cloud and were never re-planned.
Checks on the data being recovered, so a restore does not reinfect.
We do not carry a catalogue of backup products.
We chose Redstor because it solves the problem schools actually have: recovery across a fragmented technology estate. One platform. One strategy. One answer when things go wrong.
One shelf per category, chosen because it is what we would put in a school of our own. That is also why we will tell you when the smaller bundle is the right one, and when something on this page is not what you need.
Read left to right this looks like a ladder, and it is not one. Restore has the widest platform coverage of the three — Protect and Shield trade servers, Google Workspace and Azure for email security and training. Buying the dearest is not the same as buying the most.
The widest platform coverage of the three.
A school that wants one answer for everything it runs.
Trades platform breadth for email and identity defence.
A school whose estate is Microsoft end to end, and whose worry is phishing.
Does not carry Google Workspace, servers or Azure VMs. That is a difference in shape, not a smaller version of Restore.
Protect, plus behaviour-driven awareness training.
A school buying its email defence and its staff training together.
Its awareness training does the same job as the Fox Drill and phishing drill already inside Atlas. If you have Atlas, you would be buying that twice — ask us and we will say so.
Pricing is banded on the number of pupils on roll, taken from the DfE’s own figures, and fixed for the contract year.
A school that crosses a band at the next census reprices at renewal rather than mid-term.
“Develop and implement a plan to back up your data and review this every year”
“have at least 3 backup copies of important data, on at least 2 separate devices – at least one of these copies must be off-site”
“make sure that backups are immutable, this means that they cannot be changed once they have been created”
“test and log your backups termly or if there is a significant change”
Unlike the cyber security core standard, this one carries no 2030 date. gov.uk says: “You must backup your data now.”
Read the standard on gov.ukIf your trust is in the DfE’s risk protection arrangement, cyber cover is conditional. Here is the published list, and who answers each one.
Redstor keeps immutable copies in two separate UK data centres.
Atlas writes one per school and prints the record after an incident.
The condition names the NCSC's own free training. Our drills are practice, not that course — do both, but do not count one as the other.
Yours to register, free, and nothing we sell replaces it.
Conditions from the DfE’s Cyber Security Hub, last updated 16 July 2026 and read 18 August 2026. Ceidwad does not administer the RPA and cannot confirm your cover — check with your trust’s finance team.
Copies cannot be altered, deleted or encrypted once written — which is the difference between having a backup and having a backup an attacker has already been through.
Redstor states it keeps two full separate copies of backup data in UK-based data centres, which is the off-site copy the DfE standard asks for.
A restore that starts with the thing the office needs open beats a restore that starts at the beginning of the alphabet.
Checks the data being brought back, so a restore does not quietly reinstate what caused the incident.
We are a young company selling somebody else’s product, so the useful thing is not a wall of logos. It is being straight about what we know, what we earn and what this does not do.
Ceidwad resells Redstor and earns on it. Atlas's findings do not change because of anything you buy from us, and they never will.
This is a product we supply, not an integration. Our own platform reads nothing from Redstor and never has.
Shield's awareness training does the same job as the drills already in Atlas. We say so before the quote, not after it.
One shelf per category. If Redstor is the wrong answer for your estate, we would rather say so than sell you a bundle you resent at renewal.
Microsoft keeps the service running; what is inside your tenant is yours to protect, and their own shared-responsibility model says so. Retention settings and a recycle bin are not a recovery position — they are limited by time, they follow a deletion wherever it came from, and they will not help you against ransomware that reached your files through a legitimate account.
It is one of the three copies the DfE standard asks for, and it is the one in the same building as the fire, the flood and the attacker. The standard asks for at least three copies on at least two devices with at least one off-site, and for the copies to be immutable.
Yes. Redstor is one of the two things on our shelf that can be quoted for a single school inside a trust, because its price is banded on that school's own pupil numbers rather than on the estate.
It is banded on the number of pupils on roll, taken from the DfE's own figures, and fixed for the contract year. We quote for your estate rather than publishing a rate card, and we will tell you when the cheaper bundle is the right one.
The tier is agreed for the year. Crossing a boundary at the next census reprices at renewal, not mid-term.
Tell us what your school runs and how many pupils are on roll, and we will come back with the bundle that fits and the figure for your estate — one invoice, annually, ex VAT.
If a single academy inside a trust wants it on its own, that works too: Redstor is banded on that school’s own pupil numbers.
