Empowers IT to Control the Level of Security Needed and
Promote Productivity From Personal Devices
Arlington, VA, November 12, 2013 - Acronis® today
released activEcho® 3.0 and mobilEcho® 5.0, providing enterprise-level management
combined with consumer-grade simplicity for secure file access,
synchronization and sharing on mobile devices. These two products
now include the Acronis Policy Engine, which provides granular
management capabilities to create security policies and ensures
control and compliance on all devices.
Employees are currently bringing their own devices to work and
many others use corporate devices off-premises. Gartner® predicts this trend to keep increasing with
38 percent of companies expected to stop providing devices to
workers by 2016 and half by 2017. As enterprise IT continues to
lose control over which devices are accessing information and
where, they need to remain assured that sensitive files will not be
exposed to leaks or theft. mobilEcho 5.0 encrypts all files on
mobile devices, sets expiration dates for file access and logs
users' activity. IT can likewise use activEcho 3.0 to enhance
their control by crafting security settings and privileges, so
specific employees or groups have access and can share all content
or a single file.
"The National Institute of Health is a publicly funded
medical research organization where they need to support
collaboration among researchers both between the many Institutes
and Centers, as well as with those who work at research centers
outside the NIH," said J David Hester, PhD, Solutions Architect
at LCG Systems, who works with multiple NIH centers and institutes
on data security. "mobilEcho and activEcho not only give them
the most secure and audit-capable solution that meets their Federal
and internal security requirements, it is also one that is so
simple, the doctors and other users require no training. It makes
secure bring your own device (BYOD) a reality for the NIH."
Consumer solutions don't deliver the required level of control
and security, and mobile device management (MDM) solutions only
provide control over the device and applications, not the files.
Additionally, VPN solutions neither allow users to work offline nor
effectively and securely share files with partners.
Acronis mobilEcho and activEcho are deployed on-premise giving
IT complete control. The two products also go beyond the
limitations of MDM solutions and grant secure access to files from
mobile devices. The Acronis Policy Engine itself gives the
flexibility to implement security and management policies
appropriate to the needs of enterprise.
"The workplace has fundamentally changed, and employees are
working from home, on the road, and everywhere else," said
Anders Lofgren, VP of product management at Acronis. "Embracing
these trends, IT professionals can use mobilEcho 5.0 and activEcho
3.0 to enable their colleagues to work from any device by providing
secure access, sharing and syncing of files and data, under a new
and easy-to-use Acronis Policy Engine. With these new products,
it's even easier for IT professionals to help their employees stay
productive, without losing the security and control that enterprise
requires."
mobilEcho is the first secure Mobile File Management (MFM)
solution to turn any mobile device into a true business platform by
equipping enterprise with the stringent security and management
granularity it needs. mobilEcho 5.0 offers in-app editing of
Microsoft Office® documents, spreadsheets and presentations,
military-grade, FIPS 140-2 certified encryption module, and support
for Microsoft 365™ hosted SharePoint® sites.
New features in mobilEcho 5.0:
- Combined and enhanced web administration console
- Tiered web console permissions
- Simplified deployment and access to servers and volume
- Audit logging
- Designated expiration for access to content
activEcho is the industry's only enterprise file sharing and
syncing solution that balances the end user's need for simplicity
and effectiveness with the control, security, manageability, and
flexibility required by IT professionals.
New features in activEcho 3.0:
- Redesigned user experience, including drag and drop
- Sharing single files as well as entire folders
- New user and admin sharing controls, including share expiration
Learn more about mobilEcho 5.0 and activEcho 3.0 by watching our videos:
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About Acronis:
Acronis is a global cyber protection company that provides natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management for managed service providers (MSPs), small and medium businesses (SMBs), and enterprise IT departments. Acronis solutions are highly efficient and designed to identify, prevent, detect, respond, remediate, and recover from modern cyberthreats with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Acronis offers the most comprehensive security solution on the market for MSPs with its unique ability to meet the needs of diverse and distributed IT environments.
A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis has 15 offices worldwide and employees in 50+ countries. Acronis Cyber Protect is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 20,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses. Learn more at www.acronis.com.