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14 May 2025  — 4 min read
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14 May 2025  — 4 min read
Built for what’s next: Acronis Cyber Protect evolves for a new IT reality
Acronis has rolled out the latest release of Acronis Cyber Protect with a litany of new features, including Email Archiving for Microsoft 365, Nutanix Agentless Backup, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) for Linux and more.
30 March 2021  — 4 min read
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30 March 2021  — 4 min read
5 ways to protect your home network
Before we discuss what you need to do to protect your home network, computer, Wi-Fi connection, and data, let’s discuss why it is important. You may be surprised to understand the full repercussions of a cyberattack to you and to your company.
30 March 2021  — 4 min read
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30 March 2021  — 4 min read
How to detect spyware?
Spyware can be a user’s nemesis. Once a user’s device is infected, spyware can collect a variety of personal and sensitive information, depending on the type of spyware. Here is what you need to know about spyware and how to detect it.
30 March 2021  — 3 min read
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30 March 2021  — 3 min read
What is endpoint protection?
As a managed service provider (MSP), your clients may ask you what type of software they need to ensure their employees’ devices and other network endpoints are protected. This article discusses what endpoint protection or endpoint security is and what you need to do to ensure the safety and security of your clients’ network endpoints and the data they contain.
29 March 2021  — 5 min read
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29 March 2021  — 5 min read
Cyber Protection Week 2021: Time to rethink your defenses
This Cyber Protection Week – March 29 through April 2 – individuals and organizations around the globe have experienced changes they couldn’t have planned for. Along the way, many found that the solutions they had in place weren’t enough to keep the data they rely on protected. It’s time to rethink how we protect data, applications, and systems. And to do that, we surveyed 4,400 personal IT users and IT professionals from around the world, collected their unique experiences and concerns to create the inaugural Cyber Protection Week Global Report.
25 March 2021  — 6 min read
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25 March 2021  — 6 min read
Product 101: Why add anti-malware protection to a backup solution?
Everything you need to know about Acronis True Image 2021’s anti-malware technology, including how to turn it off – and why you shouldn’t Recent releases of Acronis True Image have included an integrated defense against ransomware, the fastest-growing cyberthreat. With the launch of Acronis True Image 2021, we expanded those capabilities to include a full range of advanced anti-malware capabilities, including real-time protection, antivirus scans, vulnerability assessment, web filtering, and videoconference app protection. In the wake of this release, a lot of you were perplexed by those additional cybersecurity features and asked what was happening with your beloved backup solution. In this article, we’ll explain why Acronis True Image evolved from a mere backup solution into the world’s first personal cyber protection solution.
24 March 2021  — 4 min read
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24 March 2021  — 4 min read
Cybersecurity guide for boards of directors: Acronis contributes to World Economic Forum report
Given our role as a global leader in cyber protection, the Acronis team is often tapped for our expertise and insights. Such contributions are why Acronis is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Centre for Cybersecurity – and why we were part of a working group that contributed to a new report released by the WEF that warns that cybersecurity failure is a “clear and present danger” and critical global threat. The WEF’s new Principles for Board Governance of Cyber Risk Report notes that while cybersecurity failures are a major threat, the responses from board directors have been fragmented, risks not fully understood, and collaboration between industries limited. Boards of directors need to play a more active role in protecting their organization from cyber risks. The new WEF report that we contributed to provides a solution to this fragmentation.
19 March 2021  — 1 min read
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19 March 2021  — 1 min read
The philosophy of cyber protection: An interview with Candid Wüest
Our very own VP of Cyber Protection Research, Candid Wüest, recently sat down for a video interview with Katie Teitler, Senior Analyst at cybersecurity analyst firm TAG Cyber. Candid and Katie spoke about the philosophy of cyber protection — the integration of data protection and cybersecurity — and how Acronis has translated this into its flagship solution, Acronis Cyber Protect.
17 March 2021  — 3 min read
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17 March 2021  — 3 min read
Introducing Acronis DeviceLock DLP 9.0
Insider negligence is responsible for a whopping 52% of all data breaches, with a further 17% due to malicious insider action, according to independent research from the Ponemon Institute. The average cost of insider-related incidents is now $11.45 million, having risen 31% over the last two years. When businesses don’t take steps to secure their systems and data from insider threats, their very livelihood is at tremendous risk. Today, we’re announcing a significant update to Acronis DeviceLock DLP that will introduce new monitoring tools, analytic capabilities, and discovery support for additional workloads — improving our signature data loss prevention solution and further securing business-critical data from the most common form of cyberthreat: insider activity.
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.
08 March 2021  — 3 min read
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08 March 2021  — 3 min read
Why every MSP should invest in a disaster recovery solution?
As a managed service provider (MSP), you offer your clients a variety of IT resources to remotely manage part or all of their IT infrastructures, which can include managing their operating systems, applications, databases, networks, endpoints, as well as ensuring security, compliance, and backup. Many organizations will buy your services because it is a less expensive option or, more importantly, because you bring the right tools, expertise, and best practices to support more complex, mission-critical IT functions.
24 February 2021  — 2 min read
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24 February 2021  — 2 min read
Combating new cyberthreats requires a new playbook
No matter how skilled and capable your IT manager or team is at running checks on network and data, they are only as good as the technology stack you rely on. Between juggling server issues, software updates, printers not working, and constantly reminding your employees to reset passwords, they don’t have time to focus entirely on protecting your data, systems, and applications. The technology to keep your businesses running and users productive needs to be reliable and secure.
19 February 2021  — 4 min read
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19 February 2021  — 4 min read
Jupyter backdoor deploys under the guise of photo manager and PDF editor installation
The dropped file is signed with a valid digital signature. The certificate belongs to ITM LLC, a Russian IT company from the Krasnodar region: