Acronis vs. the competition

The best Sophos alternative for MSPs – Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Take advantage of a special offer for MSPs that empowers your team to easily deliver a holistic service while easing migration with a unified platform. Compare Acronis and Sophos.

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MSP platform
Accessible pricing
Cross-NIST consolidation
Proactive protection
Detection and response
AI-guided analysis
Recovery
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Top five reasons MSPs and MSSPs choose Acronis over Sophos
More comprehensive protection across the NIST FrameworkMore comprehensive protection across the NIST Framework
Identify and proactively protect vulnerable assets, detect and respond to threats, and recover from any damage.
Rightsizes to your and your clients’ needs, budget and sizeRightsizes to your and your clients’ needs, budget and size
Natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection and management — to consolidate, streamline and reduce the cost of your services.
Minutes-not-hours analysis: guided by AI Minutes-not-hours analysis: guided by AI
Leverage more than the vague interpretations offered by Sophos – unlock the true power of GenAI-guided analysis and response.
Unmatched business continuity with integrated recoveryUnmatched business continuity with integrated recovery
Empower your team to respond more rapidly – with a single-click response to incidents, including built-in recovery, patching and remote access.
An MSP-first partner, focused on your success An MSP-first partner, focused on your success
Unlike Sophos’ enterprise focus, Acronis has adopted an MSP-first approach: partners can benefit from a program dedicated to their success, rather than competing for their business.
Profitability

How secure are your clients with Sophos? And how profitable are your services?

Sophos cybersecurity alone does not provide true business resilience. MSPs choose Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud’s all-in-one cybersecurity, data protection and management to ensure more holistic protection for clients, fewer risks, streamlined processes, and accessible service — via a platform that can rightsize to your and your clients’ needs, budget and size.
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Endpoint protection solutionsAcronisSophos
Next-gen anti-malware and anti-ransomware
EDR
XDR
MDR
Analysis AcronisSophos
AI-guided attack interpretations
Incident visualization Partial – only for EDR
GenAI assistant
Response capabilities AcronisSophos
Threat isolation and containment
Attack-specific rollback
Recovery
Remote access
Patching
Platform and governance AcronisSophos
Multitenant, SaaS-based platform
Data protection
Remote monitoring and RMM Highly limited — only patching
Single agent
Special offer: Hassle-free migration for MSPs at no extra cost

Switch to Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud for more complete protection and get 100% of your Acronis usage credited back until the end of your existing contract.

  • CRN Security 100 List

    CRN Security 100 List

  • Endpoint Security Leader

    Endpoint Security Leader

  • AV-TEST participant and test winner

    AV-TEST participant and test winner

  • AAA Certification in Enterprise Advanced Security

    AAA Certification in Enterprise Advanced Security

What our partners say
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Case Study
Acronis: The all-in-one solution that revolutionized Datos101’s data management and cybersecurity

"Datos101 are among the first, at least in Spain, to bet strongly on Acronis’ solutions for cybersecurity overall — not only for backup — and their experience with Acronis has been very positive."

Juan Llamazares
CEO of Datos101

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FAQ

  • What makes Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud a better choice than Sophos?

    Acronis provides partners with a unified platform that natively integrates best-of-breed cybersecurity, data protection and management — specifically designed for MSPs.
    By comparison, Sophos offers purely cybersecurity while also focusing on enterprises and businesses, which may be in direct competition with their MSP partners.
    The consolidated Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud platform enables MSPs to easily launch, manage and scale services and more holistically address risks for their clients. At the same time, our MSP-first approach guarantees Acronis service provider partners are always the first to benefit from our flagship solutions and innovations, along with technical, marketing, sales and business support.
    When it comes to cybersecurity and endpoint protection, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud’s native integrations empower you to go a step further than any point solution, such as Sophos. MSPs are not only able to detect and remediate advanced threats with award-winning EDR and XDR technologies, but also streamline analysis guided by a GenAI assistant and launch a more holistic response — including recovery and closing open security gaps.

  • Does Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud offer any unique features that are not available in Sophos?

    Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is specifically built for MSPs to easily scale across multiple clients with varying requirements and budgets.
    Acronis EDR and XDR solutions employ powerful AI that is able to guide your team through and streamline incident analysis, reducing technician time spent to mere minutes. On top of the AI-based incident interpretations that Sophos Intercept X offers, Acronis EDR empowers you through a GenAI assistant that can help you further analyze incidents and also suggests remediation steps.
    When it comes to responding to threats, Acronis’ native integrations enable you to deliver unmatched business continuity with a single-click response, including not just remediation, but also safe recovery, protection against threat reoccurrence, and patching.

  • How does Acronis provide more streamlined analysis compared to Sophos?

    Sophos Intercept X is a powerful solution, but it’s also aimed at highly technical security analysts; in most cases, those analyzing just a single business, rather than multiple clients under an MSP.
    We understand that MSP technicians require a streamlined incident analysis process in order to effectively scale their services across multiple clients. That’s why Acronis aims to provide you not only with AI-based interpretations of attacks mapped to MITRE stages, but also AI-based incident prioritization and a GenAI assistant that can provide additional context and remediation guidance.
    These innovations help us streamline analysis from hours to just a few minutes — all because of the power of AI.

  • How do Acronis and Sophos compare in terms of response capabilities?

    While Sophos Intercept X focuses primarily on isolating incidents and remediating their damage, response capabilities go a step further with Acronis, as we want to ensure true business resilience. Acronis MSP partners are empowered to also recover with built-in recovery and rollback capabilities, while also patching any open security gaps.
    Moreover, to ensure rapid and holistic response to incidents, Acronis EDR enables you to respond with a single click; just select the actions you want to take and hit the “Remediate entire incident” button.

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