The best Sophos alternative for MSPs – Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Acronis provides partners with a unified platform that natively integrates best-of-breed cybersecurity, data protection and management — specifically designed for MSPs.
By comparison, Sophos offers purely cybersecurity while also focusing on enterprises and businesses, which may be in direct competition with their MSP partners.
The consolidated Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud platform enables MSPs to easily launch, manage and scale services and more holistically address risks for their clients. At the same time, our MSP-first approach guarantees Acronis service provider partners are always the first to benefit from our flagship solutions and innovations, along with technical, marketing, sales and business support.
When it comes to cybersecurity and endpoint protection, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud’s native integrations empower you to go a step further than any point solution, such as Sophos. MSPs are not only able to detect and remediate advanced threats with award-winning EDR and XDR technologies, but also streamline analysis guided by a GenAI assistant and launch a more holistic response — including recovery and closing open security gaps.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is specifically built for MSPs to easily scale across multiple clients with varying requirements and budgets.
Acronis EDR and XDR solutions employ powerful AI that is able to guide your team through and streamline incident analysis, reducing technician time spent to mere minutes. On top of the AI-based incident interpretations that Sophos Intercept X offers, Acronis EDR empowers you through a GenAI assistant that can help you further analyze incidents and also suggests remediation steps.
When it comes to responding to threats, Acronis’ native integrations enable you to deliver unmatched business continuity with a single-click response, including not just remediation, but also safe recovery, protection against threat reoccurrence, and patching.

Sophos Intercept X is a powerful solution, but it’s also aimed at highly technical security analysts; in most cases, those analyzing just a single business, rather than multiple clients under an MSP.
We understand that MSP technicians require a streamlined incident analysis process in order to effectively scale their services across multiple clients. That’s why Acronis aims to provide you not only with AI-based interpretations of attacks mapped to MITRE stages, but also AI-based incident prioritization and a GenAI assistant that can provide additional context and remediation guidance.
These innovations help us streamline analysis from hours to just a few minutes — all because of the power of AI.

While Sophos Intercept X focuses primarily on isolating incidents and remediating their damage, response capabilities go a step further with Acronis, as we want to ensure true business resilience. Acronis MSP partners are empowered to also recover with built-in recovery and rollback capabilities, while also patching any open security gaps.
Moreover, to ensure rapid and holistic response to incidents, Acronis EDR enables you to respond with a single click; just select the actions you want to take and hit the “Remediate entire incident” button.