--- title: Latest stories from Acronis Editorial Team description: Stay up to date with the latest cybersecurity and cyber protection news, research, vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. canonical_url: https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/acronis/page/77/ locale: en last_updated: 2026-10-27 --- [Acronis Blog](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/) [Authors](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/) Acronis Editorial Team ![Image 1: Acronis Editorial Team](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/content/d85707ae91461544212d39836dc32b42.png) Acronis Editorial Team Acronis is a global cyber protection company that provides natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management for managed service providers (MSPs), small and medium businesses (SMBs), and enterprise IT departments. # Latest stories from Acronis Editorial Team [01 August 2014 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 2: 3-2-1: A Simple Rule for Complex Data Protection](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) For Finance, Is Big Data a Big Headache or a Big Opportunity? Cyber attacks, data theft, data loss and security breaches are just a few of the worries that financial firms have to face when it comes to producing and storing their digital data. "The result of any of these could end up costing millions, or even billions of dollars," writes Marc J. Firenze, CTO at Eagle Investment Systems. However, the promise of aggregating this information and using it to improve company systems can be looked at as an opportunity that outweighs the risk.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/finance-big-data-big-headache-or-big-opportunity/) [30 July 2014 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 3: Shadow IT: Healthcare Industry Scourge or Opportunity for Growth?](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) If Backup Isn't Easy, It Won't Work: 8 Noble Truths To help organizations better understand the challenges of backup, disaster recovery and secure access, Acronis has created the "8 Noble Truths" of data protection. To view all 8 Noble Truths, please download the whitepaper. This is the final post in an eight-part series to help you protect your data:](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/if-backup-isnt-easy-it-wont-work-8-noble-truths/) [25 July 2014 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 4: 3-2-1: A Simple Rule for Complex Data Protection](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) City Governments Turn to the Cloud for Data Recovery More U.S. cities are striving to improve their outdated IT operations — an effort that could save these local governments time and money. Migrating data from legacy data centers to the latest architectures and tools is a complicated process that can be timely and can result in data loss if not carried out correctly. To simplify the process and save on costs, these government agencies are using the cloud in a backup role, as a resource to absorb any data spikes that can occur and as a disaster recovery unit.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/city-governments-turn-cloud-data-recovery/) [23 July 2014 — 3 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 5: When Choosing a Data Protection Technology, Remember: Flexibility Matters](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30ed349a67c19cf8c26685d868f90f47.png) When Choosing a Data Protection Technology, Remember: Flexibility Matters To help organizations better understand the challenges of backup, disaster recovery and secure access, Acronis has created the "8 Noble Truths" of data protection. To view all 8 Noble Truths, please download the whitepaper. This is the seventh post in an eight-part series to help you protect your data:](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/when-choosing-data-protection-technology-remember-flexibility-matters/) [22 July 2014 — 3 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 6: Shadow IT: Healthcare Industry Scourge or Opportunity for Growth?](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) To Protect Valuable Health Data, Address the Human Factor Data breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus last year served as a wake-up call for retailers and customers alike to shore up their data protection. But health care organizations have been slower to follow suit. Earlier this year the FBI warned the industry that it’s particularly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats compared with other sectors.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/protect-valuable-health-data-address-human-factor/) [18 July 2014 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 7: IDC: Data Growth and Complexity Are Key Challenges Facing SMB IT Departments](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) Behind the Design: How One Art Director Protects Her Work New research backs what IBM founder Thomas J. Watson said more than 50 years ago: “Good design is good business.” Design-driven companies have outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock market index by 228 percent in the past 10 years, according to an analysis from the Design Management Institute and consulting firm Motiv Strategies.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/behind-design-how-one-art-director-protects-her-work/) [18 July 2014 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 8: Report: Data Breach Cases Rise, Companies Must Rebuild Trust](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) Report: Data Breach Cases Rise, Companies Must Rebuild Trust It's safe to say you've entered your personal information at some point online. Whether it's a new doctor form, a purchase form, or a crowdfunding campaign, most people in today's world have given some pretty intimate details away on the Web. Before the advent of the Internet, this information was usually stored in a file folder behind a desk. Today, though, if not protected properly, it can show up in a myriad of unwanted, sometimes very public places.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/report-data-breach-cases-rise-companies-must-rebuild-trust/) [16 July 2014 — 1 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 9: 3-2-1: A Simple Rule for Complex Data Protection](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) 3-2-1: A Simple Rule for Complex Data Protection When companies lose data, the ripple effect reaches all the way to the bottom line. For a gargantuan company like Amazon, data loss and its associated downtime could cost more than $65 million per minute. For small and medium businesses, downtime can be equally painful. In a joint study, Acronis and IDC found that 80 percent of SMBs estimate that data recovery costs $20,000 per hour. The remaining 20 percent put that figure at more than $100,000 per hour. Beyond these initial data recovery costs, companies incur additional costs from lost goodwill and legal fines even after their data is restored. In fact, according to a recent study from IBM into the “hidden costs” of data breaches, having one million compromised records costs an average of nearly $40 million. Additionally, these large-scale breaches take 100 days longer than smaller breaches to detect and contain.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/3-2-1-simple-rule-complex-data-protection/) [14 July 2014 — 3 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 10: Behind the Scenes in Space: Protecting Extraordinary Amounts of Data](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/bd62a55daae50fdec0d6a6b238034607.png) Behind the Scenes in Space: Protecting Extraordinary Amounts of Data The scale of data backup for corporations and even wedding photographers and music producers can be impressive, but when it comes to sheer amount of data, space programs are in an entirely different galaxy. The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder Telescope streams 2.8 GB of data every second — which would take nearly two million years to play back on a music player — and the Hubble Space Telescope transmits 120 GB of science data every week — comparable to 3,600 feet of books on a shelf.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/behind-scenes-space-protecting-extraordinary-amounts-data/) [11 July 2014 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 11: Shadow IT: Healthcare Industry Scourge or Opportunity for Growth?](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) Shadow IT: Healthcare Industry Scourge or Opportunity for Growth? In May this year, two New York City hospitals — New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center — were slammed with a whopping $4.8 million fine from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the biggest HIPAA fine in U.S. history. The hospitals were fined for failing to protect patient information under HIPAA privacy laws due to an incident in 2010 when the electronic health data of 6,800 patients were made public on the Internet. According to the HHS investigation, the incident unfolded because a Columbia faculty member attempted to deactivate a personally owned service that was connected to the hospital's network where the patient data resided.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/shadow-it-healthcare-industry-scourge-or-opportunity-growth/) [10 July 2014 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 12: Data Protection Is Truly About Fast, Reliable Recovery: 8 Noble Truths](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) Data Protection Is Truly About Fast, Reliable Recovery: 8 Noble Truths To help organizations better understand the challenges of backup, disaster recovery and secure access, Acronis has created the "8 Noble Truths" of data protection. To view all 8 Noble Truths, please download the whitepaper. This is the sixth post in an eight-part series to help you protect your data:](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/data-protection-truly-about-fast-reliable-recovery-8-noble-truths/) [08 July 2014 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 13: IDC: Data Growth and Complexity Are Key Challenges Facing SMB IT Departments](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) IDC: Data Growth and Complexity Are Key Challenges Facing SMB IT Departments The twin pressures of increasing data volume and complexity are the primary data protection challenges for small- and medium-sized IT departments today, according to new research from IDC and Acronis. With more and more data to protect, on more devices and in physical, cloud, virtual and mobile environments, data protection is more challenging than ever.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/idc-data-growth-and-complexity-are-key-challenges-facing-smb-it-departments/) [1](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/acronis/page/1/)...[75](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/acronis/page/75/) [76](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/acronis/page/76/) [77](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/acronis/page/77/) [78](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/acronis/page/78/) [79](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/acronis/page/79/)...[92](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/acronis/page/92/)