The COVID pandemic threw the strengths and weaknesses of organizational IT stacks into sharp relief. Now – half a year after most offices closed and work transitioned to remote work environments – we’re taking a look back at how businesses around the world performed through the sudden, dramatic shift. To do that, we surveyed more than 3,000 remote workers and IT managers around the world about their experiences both during and following the migration to remote work environments in our first Acronis Cyber Readiness Report. Learn how IT teams at organizations worldwide led their organizations through the unexpected, navigated a sudden jump in environment and security complexity, and how your team can stay prepared for the next challenges that are in store with this report deep-dive.

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Arsenal had been working hard to implement new technology to allow its workforce to work from home on an ad-hoc basis. This included the implementation of collaborative and cloud-based technology. Then the crisis hit. According to Christelle Heikkila, IT Director at Arsenal, “we had a seamless transition for our entire workforce to work from home as soon as lockdown started, from every department around the world as far as Singapore and Australia.” Acronis has been with Arsenal every step of the way, taking proactive measures to keep Arsenal cyber safe, including the provision of backups for its cloud-based data to give it additional peace of mind. Arsenal was also an early adopter of Acronis Cyber Protect, which has cybersecurity features like a full-stack antivirus solution, vulnerability assessments, patch management, and URL filtering. Here's a look at how their transition went.

This SysAdmin Day, Acronis is celebrating sysadmins around the world who saw the systems they administrate shift dramatically in 2020 and kept their teams running through it all. With this year’s massive migration to remote work – and all the security, connectivity, privacy, and accessibility challenges that came with it – sysadmins faced enormous obstacles and overcame them all. Today, we’re sharing some of their stories to highlight just how much they do to keep businesses in business and offering free Zoom virtual backgrounds and digital stickers to help make sure they get the credit they’re due.

Acronis is constantly evolving and expanding our suite of cyber protection solution to meet an ever-changing threat landscape. Sometimes our evolution is facilitated through our own innovations. Other time, we see a vendor who already has an effective solution and consider acquiring them. Today, we are announcing the latter with Acronis’ acquisition of DeviceLock, a leading provider of endpoint device/port control and data loss prevention (DLP) software for enterprises and government institutions around the world.