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20 December 2024  — 5 min read
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20 December 2024  — 5 min read
A year in review: Acronis innovations and cybersecurity enhancements in 2024
Over the last 12 months, the Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud platform has expanded significantly with new solutions, features and capabilities to empower MSPs. In this blog, we take a look at what’s new with Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud in 2024.
11 March 2021  — 4 min read
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11 March 2021  — 4 min read
SMBs face cybersecurity challenges post-pandemic
After a year of struggling to adapt to the pandemic-driven shift to remote work, rapid SaaS application adoption, and an FBI-documented 300% increase in cybersecurity attacks, small and mid-sized business (SMB) tech leaders and advisors are looking ahead with relief to a return to relative normalcy. But certain challenges are expected to remain, especially in light of their paltry budgets. In fact, Untangle’s 2020 SMB IT Security Report notes that 39% of SMBs are still investing less than $1,000 per year on IT security. Our recent panel-driven virtual conference, A New Playbook to Protect Your Users from Cyberthreats in 2021, examined how small-business IT managers anticipate that many changes wrought by the pandemic will have lasting effects on their cybersecurity strategies.
02 March 2021  — 3 min read
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02 March 2021  — 3 min read
New capabilities for delivering the enhanced cyber protection MSP clients need
The cyberthreat landscape continues to evolve on a daily basis – luckily, your cyber protection solution from Acronis continues to evolve as well. In February’s release of Acronis Cyber Cloud, we introduced numerous data protection and security enhancements to help you deliver cyber protection in an even more easy, efficient and secure way. As a result of these updates, our MSP partners can now deliver enhanced cyber protection.
26 February 2021  — 5 min read
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26 February 2021  — 5 min read
Shifting towards services: Directions and challenges in the IT channel
Throughout the IT channel, solution providers are, in large part, defined by the services that they offer. For companies like Acronis to continue providing our partners with the solutions and support they need, we need to be listening to them. What tools are SPs adopting? What are the challenges they face? What’s working — and what’s not? To take the current pulse of the industry, Acronis partnered with Channelnomics, Pax8, Dropsuite, IBM, Microsoft, and Novacoast on a collaborative study. Here, we explore some highlights from the SMB Channel Services Transformation report.
19 February 2021  — 2 min read
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19 February 2021  — 2 min read
Global sporting elite protect their edge with Acronis
What’s one thing the world’s leading sports teams have in common? They’re increasingly relying on data to elevate their game. Acronis is a leading provider of cyber protection solutions to top-tier professional teams around the world. In the last year alone, more than 15 new global sports giants partnered with Acronis to ensure their data, applications, and systems remain safe and reliable. With over 50 partnerships in our #CyberFit Sports portfolio, we’re currently protecting over 6,000 workloads and more than 2 PB of critical data that elite competitors count on to protect their edge.
26 January 2021  — 2 min read
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26 January 2021  — 2 min read
MSPs: Start the new year off with time-saving improvements
If we learned one thing in 2020, it was that time is valuable, especially when you’re trying to keep all of your clients happy, productive, and protected. Managed service providers (MSPs) don’t have time to waste on clunky platforms or solutions. They need technologies that are reliable and streamline things so they can address the next issue – or maybe even get home for dinner on time. As your partner, Acronis wants to help your team make the most out of the time you spend helping clients. That’s why, in addition to making some welcome UX improvements, we’re rolling out some time-saving capabilities in the January release of Acronis Cyber Cloud.
18 January 2021  — 4 min read
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18 January 2021  — 4 min read
What is NIST? NIST Cybersecurity Framework Guide
As a Managed Service Provider (MSP) charged with protecting your client’s data, you need to understand your clients’ vulnerability and risk and be able to answer questions such as:
12 January 2021  — 6 min read
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12 January 2021  — 6 min read
How does vulnerability and patch management tie into cyber protection?
Cyberthreats are more prevalent than ever and one of the most effective cyber exploits preys on outdated software, both operating systems (OSs) and applications. Cybercriminals focus on popular OSs and applications, such as Windows, Java, Adobe, and Microsoft 365, looking for vulnerabilities to exploit. This is why a patch management system is imperative.
12 January 2021  — 5 min read
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12 January 2021  — 5 min read
Cyber protection threats during the coronavirus pandemic
There’s no doubt that 2020 was the year for the record books! Yes, the world now knows what a viral pandemic can do but many of us have also learned what a cyber pandemic can do too. More than 80% of global companies admitted in a recent Acronis survey of 3,400 IT managers and remote workers that they were not prepared to switch to remote work to combat cyber protection threats. Furthermore, Acronis found that 92% of global companies needed to adopt new technologies to combat remote working threats.
08 January 2021  — 3 min read
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08 January 2021  — 3 min read
The Next In-Demand MSP Service: Managed Antivirus
Managed antivirus services are emerging as one of the new high-demand areas for managed service providers (MSPs). The managed services industry, already worth $207.4 billion and posed to grow to more than $300 billion in the next five years, is preparing for this influx of interest in managed antivirus solutions and vying to position themselves as the leader on the subject.
06 January 2021  — 4 min read
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06 January 2021  — 4 min read
How to remove ransomware encryption from your computer
According to the Acronis Cyberthreats Report 2020, 31 percent of companies worldwide reported being attacked during 2020. Ransomware encryption looms as one of the most prominent and dangerous of cyberthreats and with remote working dominating the landscape in 2021, it is expected that cyber-attacks will only increase. As a comparison, our experts at the Acronis Cyber Protection Operations Centers (CPOCs) discovered that more than 1,000 organizations around the world had their data leaked following a ransomware attack in 2020.
29 December 2020  — 1 min read
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29 December 2020  — 1 min read
Transitioning from Reactive to Proactive: The Evolution of Disaster Recovery
During the past few decades, disaster recovery has evolved from copying every document (creating mountains of paper) to saving backups on tapes, and from recovering documents stored on floppy disks to cloud backup and recovery. What once took days or even weeks to accomplish can now take hours or mere minutes. The modern speed of disaster recovery has been spurred on by what’s happening around us, so Acronis took an “inside-out” look at what was going on in the world and how developments in disaster recovery responded in this infographic.
22 December 2020  — 3 min read
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22 December 2020  — 3 min read
2020 in review: Latest cyber threats that emerged and how to stay protected
Amid all the horrible news that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals saw opportunity. New cyber threats emerged throughout the global lockdown, exploiting desperate people looking for news and assistance and attacking employees as they adjusted to remote work.