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May 20, 2025  — 22 min read
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May 20, 2025  — 22 min read
From banks to battalions: SideWinder’s attacks on South Asia’s public sector
Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) uncovered a new SideWinder APT campaign targeting high-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
May 25, 2023  — 4 min read
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May 25, 2023  — 4 min read
How MSPs can back up Microsoft 365 for their clients
Businesses use software applications, such as Microsoft 365, to digitize their operations, but these applications are the primary targets of cyberattackers. This article explains how MSPs can safely back up their clients' Microsoft 365 data when fulfilling their security responsibilities.
May 22, 2023  — 2 min read
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May 22, 2023  — 2 min read
Supercharge your MSP business with M365 protection: Join our exclusive webinar
As one of the world’s most popular productivity suites, Microsoft 365 is a prime target for cybercriminals — and its baked-in security features are often not sufficient to protect business-critical data. Learn how you can differentiate your MSP business with M365-specific protection services.
May 16, 2023  — 11 min read
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May 16, 2023  — 11 min read
What is a Managed Service Provider (MSP)?
Managed service providers (MSP) are businesses that offer multiple, managed, information technology (IT) services to other businesses. MSPs today largely deliver their services remotely, over a network, although they may maintain other revenue streams that require onsite support.
May 16, 2023  — 10 min read
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May 16, 2023  — 10 min read
How to Deploy a Remote Backup Server: A Simple Guide to Effective Backup
Backup today is a lifeline to the future for small, medium, and enterprise organizations alike. That’s because data is the world’s most valuable resource (more so than oil, according to The Economist) and you have to protect it. With a backup solution in place, businesses can keep running.
May 15, 2023  — 6 min read
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May 15, 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.
May 15, 2023  — 4 min read
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May 15, 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.
May 15, 2023  — 12 min read
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May 15, 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.
May 01, 2023  — 22 min read
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May 01, 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.
April 29, 2023  — 22 min read
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April 29, 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
March 31, 2023  — 5 min read
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March 31, 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.
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 29, 2023  — 3 min read
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March 29, 2023  — 3 min read
Acronis Cyber Protection Week: Cloud and hybrid cloud data protection
On this third day of Cyber Protection Week, we explore aspects of cloud security, which refers to the set of policies, technologies, and controls deployed to protect cloud resources, applications, and data from unauthorized access, data breaches, and other security threats. For MSPs, this means greater control over data safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security for their clients.