A recent report from IDC offers an exciting first look at the newly released Acronis Cyber Protect saying it shows Acronis' potential to disrupt traditional IT security vendors with integrated data protection and cybersecurity capabilities. Read their full report and explore our most innovative release for yourself here.

At the Acronis Cyber Summit 2019, we expanded our Acronis Cyber Platform's capabilities even further and partners that attended were very interested to see how they could leverage the platform to add more value to their customers by protecting new data sources, supporting new data storage locations, implementing new data management functionality, and enhancing their applications with cyber protection. We had an opportunity to interview several partners and hear from several of our healthcare-focused MSP partners in particular. Three of these exciting interviews about Acronis Cyber Platform are highlighted here.

When we made the decision a few weeks ago to delay the general availability of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, it was because we wanted to incorporate new cyber protection features for remote workers and workloads. After all, an unprecedented number of people were suddenly being forced to work from home, and their data, applications, and systems needed protection. That same day, we got an email from our colleagues at the market research firm DCIG to let us know they just published a blog article about how one of their analysts successfully used Acronis True Image for cyber protection and resilience at his home office following a hardware failure. The timing couldn’t have been more synchronistic.

New cyberattacks continue to roll in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, including exploits of the most popular video conferencing service and doubling-down on the DoppelPaymer ransomware strain. Here’s a quick recap of the latest updates to these attacks and the planned responses.