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James Slaby
James Slaby
James Slaby

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January 15, 2026 — 4 min read
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How to create OT environments that will last despite uncontrolled IT practices
January 15, 2026 — 4 min read
How to create OT environments that will last despite uncontrolled IT practices
Organizations need to know how to operate, maintain and protect engineered-to-last OT environments while meeting compliance needs and adopting practical resilience strategies that bring IT into the equation.
December 10, 2025 — 3 min read
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Lessons from the Jaguar Land Rover outage: How plant managers and OT engineers can prepare
December 10, 2025 — 3 min read
Lessons from the Jaguar Land Rover outage: How plant managers and OT engineers can prepare
OT PCs are so integral to real-time industrial processes that when they fail, production lines grind to a halt with extremely costly consequences.
December 10, 2025 — 3 min read
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Response to “Principles for the Secure Integration of Artificial Intelligence in OT”
December 10, 2025 — 3 min read
Response to “Principles for the Secure Integration of Artificial Intelligence in OT”
This new guidance amounts to leading Western governments telling OT users (industrial businesses in manufacturing, energy, power, logistics, critical infrastructure, and the like), “Yes, you can use AI in OT, but only if you’re prepared for it to fail and you can recover quickly when it does.”
March 20, 2025 — 4 min read
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Avoid costly PC downtime with the help of bootable media
March 20, 2025 — 4 min read
Avoid costly PC downtime with the help of bootable media
Building a rescue kit on bootable media is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to ensure that a PC failure doesn’t result in costly downtime in front-office, back-office and operational technology (OT) production environments.
October 17, 2024 — 3 min read
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A refreshed cyber resilience plan can help your business in three significant ways
October 17, 2024 — 3 min read
A refreshed cyber resilience plan can help your business in three significant ways
Refreshing your cyber resilience plan will improve your company’s posture with IT regulators, cybersecurity standards bodies and insurers. Learn more about what your plan should include and how to build it.
July 31, 2024 — 4 min read
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Murphy's Law and the lessons of the CrowdStrike outage
July 31, 2024 — 4 min read
Murphy's Law and the lessons of the CrowdStrike outage
These lessons learned from the CrowdStrike outage can help your business better defend itself against such incidents.
July 24, 2024 — 6 min read
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Keeping your business current with evolving IT compliance requirements
July 24, 2024 — 6 min read
Keeping your business current with evolving IT compliance requirements
Improve your cyber resilience to address HIPAA 2024, NIS 2, and other IT compliance updates
July 18, 2024 — 5 min read
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Data protection issues in air-gapped factory-floor environments
July 18, 2024 — 5 min read
Data protection issues in air-gapped factory-floor environments
The downtime costs for highly automated factory-floor environments are some of the world’s highest, estimated at anywhere from $1 million to $10 million per hour, and up. So it should be no surprise that many manufacturing enterprises seek to eliminate the possibility of a network-borne cyberattack by air gapping their factory-floor IT and operational technology (OT) systems. But doing so comes with risks and costs.
May 24, 2024 — 7 min read
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Lessons learned from the UnitedHealthcare cyberattack
May 24, 2024 — 7 min read
Lessons learned from the UnitedHealthcare cyberattack
The February 12, 2024 ransomware attack on U.S. health care conglomerate UnitedHealth Group is a vivid reminder of how basic failures in cyber resilience can have hugely costly and destructive consequences.
July 21, 2021 — 5 min read
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MSPs learn cyber protection best practices from sports tech leaders at #MSInspire
July 21, 2021 — 5 min read
MSPs learn cyber protection best practices from sports tech leaders at #MSInspire
Technology leaders from two of Acronis #CyberFit Sports Partners wowed attendees at Microsoft Inspire 2021 with a live panel discussion entitled, “Lessons for MSPs from Professional Sports Teams on Protecting Microsoft Environments”.
June 15, 2021 — 2 min read
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Catching a wave: Exploring the hosting industry’s rapid growth
June 15, 2021 — 2 min read
Catching a wave: Exploring the hosting industry’s rapid growth
If you think the web hosting services business is maturing, flattening, maybe getting stale, think again. Last year, the global hosting market generated a robust $75 billion in revenues despite a modest slowdown attributed to the pandemic. In 2021, its growth is accelerating again, forecast to grow to $267 billion by 2028, according to Fortune Business Insights. That is a rocket worth catching a ride on.
June 08, 2021 — 3 min read
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What’s a live ransomware attack look like? Take a look
June 08, 2021 — 3 min read
What’s a live ransomware attack look like? Take a look
In the wake of the Colonial Pipeline breach and the JBS attack, ransomware has recaptured everyone’s attention – including your management. See what happens when malware threatens the family road trip or backyard barbecue. That makes it an opportune moment to upgrade your understanding of how ransomware attacks work, and revisit your strategies for protecting your company’s data and uptime against this most destructive and increasingly widespread malware threats. Acronis is giving you two excellent chances to do just that.