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15 April 2025  — 3 min read
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15 April 2025  — 3 min read
The NIS 2 Directive: A wake-up call for health care disaster recovery strategies
The NIS 2 Directive is here, demanding robust disaster recovery strategies for health care. Learn about increased liability, patient safety risks, and why resilience is now non-negotiable.
15 May 2023  — 6 min read
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15 May 2023  — 6 min read
Essential components for robust ransomware protection in the modern age
SMBs are facing new, more sophisticated attacks on business continuity and critical data as ransomware continues to surge. No one can hire enough quality cybersecurity and IT operations talent and the adversarial ChatGPT is here, enabling cybercriminals to write perfect phishing emails. But managed service providers can help by developing anti-ransomware services using an MSP-optimized cyber protection platform.
15 May 2023  — 4 min read
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15 May 2023  — 4 min read
Can your SMB clients afford ransomware protection?
There was a time when SMBs were not a priority target for cybercriminals. But today, with cybercriminals using AI, ML and automation, the move to remote work and the growth of endpoints, cybercriminals are targeting SMBs either directly or through supply-chain attacks. Sadly, SMBs have neither the budget nor staff to handle cybersecurity inhouse. But MSPs can help by offering SMBs data protection services that are affordable.
15 May 2023  — 26 min read
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15 May 2023  — 26 min read
How to Recover Unsaved/Deleted Word Document?
There are few experiences as universally familiar as losing a Word document. Everyone from high schoolers with Catcher in the Rye book reports to business executives with quarterly earnings knows the panic of their work disappearing when it’s just a few crossed-t’s away from being completed.
15 May 2023  — 12 min read
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15 May 2023  — 12 min read
Best MSP Backup Solution: A Reference Guide
Your managed service provider (MSP) business thrives by expanding the breadth and depth of services you offer to your business customers. These expansions represent an opportunity both to entice new prospects and to deepen your relationship with existing customers. And few MSP services are in more demand today than online backup services.
11 May 2023  — 5 min read
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11 May 2023  — 5 min read
How to protect your business’s Microsoft 365 data?
As small to midmarket businesses increasingly rely on Microsoft 365 to digitize their operations, the responsibility of protecting that data falls on their IT operations (ITOps) professionals. These employees must take action to protect their business against cyberthreats or any incidents leading to data loss. One best practice in this regard is the use of dedicated M365 third-party backup tools.
11 May 2023  — 6 min read
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11 May 2023  — 6 min read
Third-party backup services are critical for Microsoft 365
In the event of a ransomware attack, Microsoft can bulk-restore your mailbox going back two weeks, but you will lose all work in the interim and cannot restore individual resources lost due to accidental deletion. It is therefore essential that businesses consider implementing a third-party M365 backup tool to provide additional data protection layers and to back up data to secure off-site locations.
10 May 2023  — 3 min read
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10 May 2023  — 3 min read
Best practices for verifying and validating your backups
Many IT teams and companies think they’re successfully backing up their data and applications, only to have unpleasant surprises in the case of a malware attack, outage or other event. To overcome these challenges, you need to make sure you’re verifying that your backups are working exactly how you think they should.
08 May 2023  — 3 min read
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08 May 2023  — 3 min read
Three exceptional Acronis women recognized on CRN’s 2023 Women of the Channel list
Every year, the CRN Women of the Channel list recognizes extraordinary women making strides in their industries through thought leadership, strategic vision and channel advocacy that directly impacts the growth of the channel. Acronis is honored to have three women chosen for this award, and want to applaud them for helping Acronis achieve the strong relationships with our partners we proudly hold.
01 May 2023  — 22 min read
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01 May 2023  — 22 min read
What is Online Backup? The Ultimate Guide
An online backup service will give you peace of mind that your important information will be able to access, no matter what happens. When using a backup services you won't be stressed about losing even a single file from your archive.
29 April 2023  — 22 min read
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29 April 2023  — 22 min read
Ultimate Guide to Managed Cloud Backup
Cloud backup enables data, systems, and applications on an organization's servers to be backed up and stored offsite, remotely in a data center or “the cloud”. This approach is part of the ideal 3-2-1 rule of backup: creating three copies of your data, storing (at least) two copies on different types of media, and ensuring one of these copies is stored offsite
04 April 2023  — 3 min read
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04 April 2023  — 3 min read
The critical importance of creating secure passwords
In additional recognition of last week’s Acronis’ Cyber Protection Week, this blog will touch upon passwords, and in particular, how to create secure passwords for all your accounts and keep them safe from unwanted parties.
31 March 2023  — 5 min read
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31 March 2023  — 5 min read
What’s new in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud – March 2023
This month, we are proud to announce that Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud has been enhanced with a range of new features in release 23.03, aimed at improving the overall security of your clients’ organization, streamlining your operations and staying one step ahead of cybercriminals. Our team has been hard at work on these new features, and we're confident that they will further strengthen our position as a cybersecurity leader.