Managed service providers (MSPs) offering security services often face a choice between incomplete, inadequate protection and costly, complex solutions. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Advanced Security + XDR resolves this dilemma by providing a complete, natively integrated and highly efficient solution designed for MSPs.
Acronis XDR is built on top of Acronis EDR and offers comprehensive visibility through robust security data collection, monitoring, analysis and workflows across multiple clients. It enables proactive threat hunting, allowing technicians to identify and remediate potential issues before they are exploited. Additionally, thanks to integration with backup and disaster recovery, it provides unique remediation with a comprehensive set of response actions to protect against multistage and advanced cyberthreats.
With Acronis XDR, MSPs can investigate individual incidents with complete visibility into suspicious or malicious threats using the XDR graph across multiple integrations. They can respond to incidents with specific actions tailored to each integration type, such as blocking email senders or suspending users. Furthermore, the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service is available with Advanced Security + XDR, enhancing the overall security offering.
Why choose Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Advanced Security + XDR?
There are other XDR solutions out there, so how does Acronis XDR stand out?
Acronis XDR natively integrates cybersecurity, data protection and endpoint management, delivering unmatched business continuity. Highly efficient, it empowers MSPs to easily launch, manage, scale and deliver a comprehensive security service. The AI-based incident analysis and streamlined response facilitate easy investigation. Designed for MSPs, it includes a single agent and console for all services, along with a customizable cloud platform to integrate additional tools into the technology stack.
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Advanced Security + XDR extends protection across most vulnerable attack surfaces, providing extensive visibility that covers endpoints, email, Entra ID and Microsoft 365 applications (SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams). This integration ensures robust protection against sophisticated threat landscapes.
Let's look at an example of how XDR is different from EDR with regard to remediation. XDR includes all the options available with EDR, including remediation, but it provides additional options as well. For example, if infection occurs due to a malicious email, it can be deleted from all the affected mailboxes. Additionally, you can block the compromised account at the Entra ID level. If needed, the admin can limit network activity on the web gateway (blocks FTP upload, access to a limited set of servers, etc.)
Additionally, Cyber Protection Operations Centers and MDR services offer real-time monitoring and incident resolution, with advanced ransomware defense through behavior-based detection and automated rollback and recovery. AI automation enhances technician efficiency with behavior-based detection and AI-filtered XDR events.
Strong focus on AI
Let's talk about AI in more detail as Acronis XDR's full lifecycle is AI-based. We introduced an AI-generated incident summary to Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud earlier this year. It leverages AI to simplify incident summaries, autonomously analyzing complex data into clear insights for informed decisions. Its intelligent incident triage assesses threats, accelerates response times and reduces false positives, while AI-generated natural language summaries enhance comprehension and decision making for users and administrators.
By simplifying incident summaries, Acronis empowers administrators and nontechnical users to respond promptly, reducing reliance on tier 2 and 3 cybersecurity personnel. AI-driven summaries significantly speed up response times by swiftly presenting relevant information, minimizing incident impact.
Later on, we introduced AI-based script generation, which is also a part of Acronis Advanced Management. This functionality, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 model, enables the rapid creation of PowerShell and Bash scripts. This integration allows MSPs and their clients to generate customized scripts effortlessly using simple prompts, to help remediate large scale incidents across multiple endpoints. The user-friendly interface, compatible with both Windows and macOS, allows MSPs to generate scripts in a matter of seconds, rather than hours and days with manual programming, and enables engineers to focus on refining, testing and deploying scripts more efficiently.
In the second half of 2024, AI in Acronis XDR will assist in various cybersecurity tasks, including incident investigation, threat hunting and remediation. Our AI-powered chatbot — Acronis Copilot — will engage with security analysts to contextualize incidents and provide prompt, relevant information, accelerating decision making and effective strategy formulation. Admins will be able to prompt AI with questions to show specific alert history or group alerts in a graph, identify vulnerabilities, highlight unusual logins and recommend remediation. Acronis Copilot will also aid in threat hunting by generating queries based on natural language requests.
Easy to use, proven cybersecurity with advanced management
Acronis XDR includes integrated remote desktop capabilities out of the box, requiring no installation or configuration, and remains functional even when the host is isolated. It supports file transfer and Entra ID group policy changes. This increases efficiency by reducing reaction time, ensuring quick attack isolation.
Acronis’s security team has ensured continuous development and protection against ransomware since 2017, covering the entire cyberthreat and malware spectrum in 2020 with the release of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud. The solution is certified by VB100, ICSA Labs and AV-Comparatives, and adheres to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, providing comprehensive security coverage. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud also complies with ISO, GDPR, FIPS and HIPAA standards.
Acronis XDR sets a new standard in cybersecurity for MSPs, delivering comprehensive, efficient and integrated protection against evolving threats.
About Acronis
A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis has 15 offices worldwide and employees in 50+ countries. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 20,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses.
