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title: "Protected By vs. Protected With"
description: "Use protected by when talking about an entity that provides protection. It implies that there is an active agent responsible for protection — in Veeam documentation, this is typically a backup policy or a job."
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# Protected By vs. Protected With

Use **protected by** when talking about an entity that provides protection. It implies that there is an active agent responsible for protection — in Veeam documentation, this is typically a backup policy or a job.

Use **protected with** when talking about a mechanism or technology that is used to provide protection. It focuses on the means of protection and implies that there is someone applying the mechanism or technology — in Veeam documentation, this is typically a backup solution.

::: tip

Some nouns (such as *encryption* or *firewall*) work with both. For example, if you write *The data is protected by encryption*, it will indicate that encryption is presented as the protector, whereas if you write *The data is protected with encryption*, it will indicate that encryption is presented as the means of protection. Both are correct; choose one approach and follow it consistently throughout your document.

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## Examples

1. The amount of RAM utilized by policies running on a backup appliance depends on the total amount of RAM allocated to the backup appliance, the number of configured backup policies and the number of workloads [protected by]{.mdhl-correct} each policy.
2. This category includes groups of VMs [protected by]{.mdhl-correct} Veeam backup jobs, Veeam replication jobs and Veeam CDP policies that are managed by Veeam Backup & Replication servers connected to Orchestrator.
3. In Veeam Backup & Replication, computers that you want to [protect with]{.mdhl-correct} Veeam Plug-Ins are organized into protection groups.
4. Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to create backup jobs for the following types of protected computers:

   - Microsoft Windows computers [protected with]{.mdhl-correct} Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows.
   - Linux computers [protected with]{.mdhl-correct} Veeam Agent for Linux.