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21 November 2024  — 4 min read
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21 November 2024  — 4 min read
MSPs, is cybersecurity slowing your network performance?
Anything that slows your network is a problem for you as an MSP. In the case of cybersecurity, solving this problem is a necessity. Security solutions can slow your network and frustrate clients. Learn how to stay safe and speedy.
19 July 2019  — 3 min read
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19 July 2019  — 3 min read
Acronis Announces Official Cyber Protection Partnership with FC Internazionale Milano
FC Internazionale Milano today announced that it has teamed up with Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, in a multi-year partnership. Several members of Inter attended the formal partnership announcement at Acronis headquarters in Singapore on July 19, including team Captain Samir Handanovic, Tommaso Berni and Corporate Chief Executive Officer Alessandro Antonello.
18 July 2019  — 2 min read
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18 July 2019  — 2 min read
GUEST BLOG: Data’s Value to Businesses Demands the New Approach of Cyber Protection
IDC's Andrew Smith, Research Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure, offers his thoughts on how enterprises are collecting more data than ever before and learning how to use that data to digitally transform their business...and how its increased value has implications for storage, usage, and security. A new data strategy should be considered. "Solving this problem requires the right data strategy," he says, "something inclusive which spans organizational disciplines and ensures the flood of data being welcomed with open arms doesn't end up washing us away."
16 July 2019  — 2 min read
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16 July 2019  — 2 min read
Enterprises Gain Enhanced Cyber Protection with Acronis Backup Support for SAP HANA
Acronis Backup now offers backup and recovery support for SAP HANA through easy, efficient, and secure protection for the entire database. Through this new support for the widely utilized data management and analytics system, enterprise users can now back up all their SAP HANA data and recover business-critical data in mere minutes, streamlining a complex process into a task any IT professional can manage with ease. Read this article to learn how this support can protect your most important data and benefit your organization.
12 July 2019  — 3 min read
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12 July 2019  — 3 min read
Top Business and Data Protection Strategies for Gulf Coast Flooding and More
For businesses, preparing for a flood (or any natural disaster) is not something that should be left to the last minute. Fortunately, there are a few established business and data protection strategies that companies should take to protect their businesses and their businesses precious data from this flood and those that will follow:
11 July 2019  — 5 min read
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11 July 2019  — 5 min read
Modular Cryptojackers Now Deliver Illicit Cryptomining to Cover Multiple Platforms at Once
Cryptojacking attacks are not going away any time soon. Instead, they’re becoming more sophisticated – and more dangerous – by using advanced modular malware with worm capabilities as a delivery mechanism. A complex backdoor, called Plurox, was recently discovered by MalwareHunterTeam. It has a pluggable architecture and is able to spread itself over a local network, with the help of the EternalBlue exploit, and start cryptominers downloaded from the command and control (C&C) server.
10 July 2019  — 3 min read
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10 July 2019  — 3 min read
British Airways Hit with GDPR Fine, Shows the Cost of Not Protecting Customer Data
The kaboom you heard earlier this week was the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)  laying the hammer on British Airways in the form of a ₤183.39 M ($230M) fine for its failure to prevent a 2018 data breach that disclosed sensitive data on over half a million BA customers. It’s exactly the kind of disaster that BA could have avoided had it heeded our advice early last year: “Get moving fast to improve cyber protection and privacy for your customers’ sensitive data. It won’t be long before national regulatory agencies start levying massive fines on well-known companies that fail to do so.
08 July 2019  — 3 min read
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08 July 2019  — 3 min read
How the NIO Formula E Team Employs AI for Slicker Pit Work
The NIO Formula E team employs artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) developed by Acronis to recognize the signs of failing sensors and notifies their engineers before they can cause performance degradation on the track. This keeps the team at the front of the pack in motorsports fastest, and fastest-growing, competition.
03 July 2019  — 16 min read
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03 July 2019  — 16 min read
Taking a deep dive into Sodinokibi ransomware
While Sodinokibi ransomware has been in the news recently, technical details for that particular strain have been far less visible. In this article, we’ll dissect Sodinokibi, shine a light on how it works, and review how you can protect your system from this threat.
27 June 2019  — 2 min read
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27 June 2019  — 2 min read
3 Steps to Restore Your Server in Mere Minutes
Disk-imaging technology, faster storage, and new protocols have changed the average recovery time objectives (RTOs) from hours to minutes. But in the modern world, data is so critical that many businesses are working to reduce RTOs even further, and with good reason. Today a business that doesn’t have access to its data can lose $100,000 every hour, in addition to the potentially huge costs of recovering that data.
26 June 2019  — 6 min read
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26 June 2019  — 6 min read
Why Delivering Managed IT Services is Advantageous – and How to Sell Them with Ease
Making money is the number one business objective no matter who you are or what you do. And with the global managed services market expected to hit $282 billion by 2021, it’s no surprise IT consultants and technology resellers are wondering: What are managed IT services really? Could it be a way to expand my business and get a piece of that pie?
24 June 2019  — 3 min read
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24 June 2019  — 3 min read
Ransomware Attack Costs $1.5 Million in Riviera Beach, FL
The city of Riviera Beach, Florida made news recently when it announced it was paying approximately $600,000 in ransom to undo a ransomware attack it suffered in late May. In addition to the ransom paid, officials also invested more than $900,000 into new hardware in the hopes that they do not have the same vulnerabilities as the old ones. That’s $1.5 million in damages from one attack.
20 June 2019  — 4 min read
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20 June 2019  — 4 min read
Cashing In on Crime: GandCrab May End, But The Threat of Ransomware Continues
They say crime doesn’t pay, but clearly the architects behind GandCrab ransomware didn’t get that memo. They recently announced they were retiring thanks to the money they’ve made encrypting victims’ computers. At the beginning of June, operators of the notorious GandCrab strain of ransomware announced that “all good things come to an end” and they are ceasing their operations. Unfortunately the success they reported will likely provide a roadmap for other cybercriminals that will continue for a long time.