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April 08, 2025  — 3 min read
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April 08, 2025  — 3 min read
Acronis Cyberthreats Update, April 2025
The Acronis Cyberthreats Update covers current cyberthreat activity and trends, as observed by the Acronis Threat Research Unit.
June 04, 2021  — 7 min read
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June 04, 2021  — 7 min read
Analysis of Ragnar Locker Ransomware
The threat actor begin the attack by compromising the company’s network via RDP service, using brute force to guess weak passwords or with stolen credentials bought on the Dark Web. Next, the attacker performs second-stage reconnaissance. To elevate privileges, the attacker exploits the CVE-2017-0213 vulnerability in the Windows COM Aggregate Marshaler to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
June 01, 2021  — 3 min read
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June 01, 2021  — 3 min read
Will liability waivers help when clients won’t pay for cybersecurity?
The rise in cberthreats requires MSPs to make the cybersecurity of their clients a top priority. But what happens when an existing client or a prospect doesn’t think their business is at risk – and they don’t want to enforce the policies or pay for preventative measures you know will keep them secure? Many experts recommend using liability waivers to reduce the risk to your business when stubborn clients refuse to get on board with security. Sometimes, just presenting a waiver can get clients to realize the severity of the risk.
May 26, 2021  — 2 min read
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May 26, 2021  — 2 min read
Acronis wins Most Innovative Solution award at ASCII Success Summit
We’re thrilled to announce that Acronis has been awarded Most Innovative Solution at the first live ASCII Summit of 2021. This award acknowledges the significant evolution that Acronis has made from backup vendor to cyber protection partner of the global MSP channel community.
May 20, 2021  — 3 min read
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May 20, 2021  — 3 min read
What goes into a strong, modern cyber protection stack
For service providers, cybersecurity services are in demand. Building tailored cybersecurity bundles that ensure client protection while earning you the most profit, however, is more complicated than it seems. Build your security services bundle (or bundles) with this handy guide to the services and components that help you find the best results for your organization and your clients.
May 20, 2021  — 2 min read
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May 20, 2021  — 2 min read
How (and why) to build your cybersecurity services bundle
MSPs looking to build an impenetrable cybersecurity wall face a complex and process. Targets are shifting quickly as AI and other technologies give offenders more firepower and stealthier weapons for their attacks. And while foolproof cybersecurity may not always be possible, your clients still need and deserve the best protection available. Designing bundled cybersecurity services within your offering is the best way to deliver them.
May 20, 2021  — 6 min read
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May 20, 2021  — 6 min read
3 Ways to avoid malware infection in software patches
The objective of a software patch is to eliminate a vulnerability or fix a software flaw that is identified after the software is released, add new functionality or improve performance. Timely installation of newly released patches is an important maintenance step. It keeps your systems current and stable, optimizes performance, and mitigates the threat of new malware infection.
May 04, 2021  — 4 min read
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May 04, 2021  — 4 min read
Recognizing the power of cyber protection: Acronis gets $250M+ investment, valuation at $2.5B+
A new day is dawning for Acronis and the IT industry. Today we announced that Acronis has secured more than $250 million in a funding round led by CVC Capital Partners VII and other investors, bringing our valuation to more than $2.5 billion. More than doubling our valuation in 18 months – especially during a global pandemic – is a testament to the power of Acronis’ cyber protection technology and the dedication of our network of more than 50,000 partners.  This funding round comes at a pivotal time, as Acronis has been intensifying our support for service provider partners to deliver cyber protection to businesses of any size.  These funds will immediately be used to further accelerate our current growth strategy.
April 28, 2021  — 2 min read
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April 28, 2021  — 2 min read
MSPs gain expanded protection capabilities, improved UX, and management flexibility
As service providers protect a wide range of machines and environments against an ever-expanding threat landscape, it’s critical that the solutions they use to power their services can keep up. To ensure our partners have the capabilities they need to keep their clients’ endpoints protected, our April 2021 release for Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud incorporates some highly sought-after features, as well as UX and time-saving improvements.
April 22, 2021  — 4 min read
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April 22, 2021  — 4 min read
Continuous data protection: What you need to know
Today’s business users are more reliant on data than ever before, so any downtime or data loss can devastate an organization. Since data loss can happen at any moment, as a service provider you need to restore your clients’ business-critical data as quickly as possible.  How quickly they get back to normal depends on when you last backed up their data. Poor data protection can set them back hours, days, or perhaps weeks – severely impact their employees’ productivity and the organization’s long-term viability.
April 16, 2021  — 3 min read
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April 16, 2021  — 3 min read
New integration: MSPs can now manage Acronis via Kaseya VSA
We’ve worked hard to ensure Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud – which unifies backup, cybersecurity, and protection management capabilities in one solution designed for MSPs – integrates with the popular RMM and PSA systems that service providers rely on. Recently, we added to our list of integrations so that Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud can now be monitored and run via the Kaseya VSA platform.
April 05, 2021  — 2 min read
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April 05, 2021  — 2 min read
Building MSP cybersecurity services isn’t hard with the right advice
Small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) struggled through a fretful year of sudden pandemic-driven changes: employees forced to work from home, sensitive data abruptly moved to cloud-based SaaS applications, and a baffling array of new cyberthreats – including 350,000 new malware threats being identified every day and a 400% increase in cybercrime last year being reported by the FBI. For 2021, that last challenge is particularly daunting: few SMBs are capable of keeping pace with a daily barrage of ransomware attacks, tech supply-chain incursions like the SolarWinds breach, and severe vulnerabilities like Microsoft’s recent Exchange Server fiasco – especially in light of their paltry tech budgets and headcount. SMBs are desperate to outsource these problems, and that presents a huge opportunity for MSPs willing to step up and help.
March 31, 2021  — 3 min read
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March 31, 2021  — 3 min read
How service providers will guide the new approach to cyber protection
Our Cyber Protection Week Global Report shows that organizations are still grappling with the changes sparked by COVID and the modern cyberthreat landscape. They’re aware of the challenges facing them but their strategies to overcome them simply aren’t working. For IT service providers offering modern cyber protection solutions, these findings represent a significant opportunity to deliver more reliable, comprehensive, and effective protection and unlock expanded revenue streams along the way.