The phrase "as it is protected" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is safeguarded or secured in its current state.
Example: "The document will remain confidential, as it is protected by privacy laws."
Alternatives: "since it is safeguarded" or "because it is secured".
Investors, knowing that their money would now be safe, as it was protected by the state, began to return.
The National Guard rolled in to town on Monday, and its presence will essentially protect that legal looting of black people – much as it was protected when Missouri became the last slave state admitted to the union.
And it would not be surprising to learn that the Zambian government, eager to maintain the country's tourist trade, did not always care to know how the scouts went about protecting their country's valuable wildlife, as long as it was protected.
Tomlinson told the inquiry he had not been given any formal training on the work of Commons committees, although he conceded he should have known sharing the draft report was a mistake, especially as it was protected by a password and had a "restricted access" marking.
"Generally your head on the ice is the best thing as it's protected by a helmet.
However, in their reconnaissance of Camp Holloway, the Viet Cong found the security barrier which surrounded the U.S. advisory compound was the real challenge, as it was protected by several layers of concertina wire fences which measured about 10 m high.
The rich soil formed by decomposed volcanic rock and vegetable deposits could only be retained on the steep slopes so long as it was protected by the vegetation to which it in great part owed its origin.
"Well, David used to, as it were, protect me from myself, and other people from me.
There were good reasons to question the point of UN peacekeeping in the 1990s and to wonder if it was not costing as many lives as it was protecting by offering an illusion of security.
