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May 11, 2023 — 5 min read
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May 11, 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.
May 11, 2023 — 7 min read
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May 11, 2023 — 7 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.
May 10, 2023 — 3 min read
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May 10, 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.
April 04, 2023 — 3 min read
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April 04, 2023 — 3 min read
The top five security vulnerabilities of SMBs
Cyberattacks can cost small and medium businesses (SMBs) thousands if not millions in damages, with ransomware being one of the most aggressive and commonly used forms of digital extortion. To protect yourself against these attacks and continue as unscathed as possible in event of one, it’s important to know the most common security vulnerabilities of SMBs and how to avoid them.
March 31, 2023 — 5 min read
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March 31, 2023 — 5 min read
Acronis Cyber Protection Week: Five essential steps to achieve cyber protection
On this fifth and final day of Cyber Protection Week 2023, we go in depth on five essential steps for safeguarding your data and ensuring your cyber protection is at peak efficiency.
March 27, 2023 — 8 min read
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March 27, 2023 — 8 min read
Acronis Cyber Protection Week: What is the 3-2-1 backup strategy?
Backup is important but it is just as important to remember that having one backup copy is sometimes not enough. For example, let’s assume that you backup your computer to an external drive, which you keep in your home office. If your computer crashes, you have the backup copy. However, if a fire breaks out in your home, it will destroy both your computer and the external drive.
March 13, 2023 — 2 min read
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March 13, 2023 — 2 min read
Acronis security incident analysis
On March 9, a post on BreachedForums mentioned that Acronis had been hacked. As this is a very serious matter, we immediately opened an investigation and found that this post was unfounded and no Acronis products had been hacked or compromised.
February 27, 2023 — 2 min read
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February 27, 2023 — 2 min read
Acronis named to CRN Data Center 50 list for 2023
We’re excited to announce that Acronis has been featured on CRN’s 2023 Data Center 50 list. This influential publication highlights leading data center providers and suppliers, recognizing them for their work to ensure that partners’ business-facing data centers run at peak performance and with maximum efficiency.
February 22, 2023 — 2 min read
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February 22, 2023 — 2 min read
Recent IDC survey confirms small businesses benefit from consolidated security solutions
An International Data Corporation (IDC) survey of 1,015 IT professionals in North America recently concluded that small businesses benefit the most from simplified, consolidated security solutions. These results align with the Acronis mission: to simplify data protection and backup and reduce needless complexity in security solutions.
December 21, 2022 — 5 min read
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December 21, 2022 — 5 min read
Acronis Universal Restore Ensures Bare-Metal Restore of Dissimilar Hardware
Google Drive is a personal cloud storage service from Google that lets you store and synchronize digital content across computers, laptops, and mobile devices, including Android tablets and smartphone devices. It’s a great product – it currently offers 15 GB of cloud storage for free, which can be increased to 100 GB with a monthly subscription.
December 20, 2022 — 30 min read
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December 20, 2022 — 30 min read
How to Backup and Restore Windows?
Backup software creates copies of the data on your system so you can recover in case your original data is lost or damaged.
December 05, 2022 — 3 min read
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December 05, 2022 — 3 min read
AV-TEST: Acronis Cyber Protect again earns macOS certification, outperforming other solutions
AV-TEST, the renowned independent evaluator of antivirus and security solutions, recently released the results of their September 2022 evaluation of business security products for macOS Monterey. Acronis Cyber Protect showed excellent results — outperforming other participants like Bitdefender and Trellix (McAfee) — and earned a Certified badge for Corporate Endpoint Protection on macOS systems.
October 13, 2022 — 3 min read
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October 13, 2022 — 3 min read
AV-Comparatives: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud earns 100% detection rate, zero false-positives
We’re proud to share that Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Advanced Security received excellent results in the latest AV-Comparatives Business Security Test, published on October 13, 2022.