--- title: Latest stories from James Slaby 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/james-slaby/ locale: en last_updated: 2026-10-11 --- [Acronis Blog](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/) [Authors](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/) James Slaby ![Image 1: James Slaby](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/content/36117e925e5b5e501a197e22a2959987.png) James Slaby # Latest stories from James Slaby [15 January 2026 — 4 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 2: How to create OT environments that will last despite uncontrolled IT practices](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/79f1fba276fb4a3ba0365b4280fea146.png) 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.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/preserving-vintage-ot-in-the-face-of-destabilizing-modernity/) [10 December 2025 — 3 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 3: Lessons from the Jaguar Land Rover outage: How plant managers and OT engineers can prepare](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/3edebee79d168c1116f79c814e5c5010.png) 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.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/how-plant-managers-and-ot-engineers-can-prepare-for-attacks-on-scada-dcs-and-other-ot-systems/) [10 December 2025 — 3 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 4: Response to “Principles for the Secure Integration of Artificial Intelligence in OT”](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/81c57cd166a62390813370b4601962ec.png) 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.”](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/response-to-principles-for-the-secure-integration-of-artificial-intelligence-in-operational-technology/) [20 March 2025 — 4 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 5: Avoid costly PC downtime with the help of bootable media](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/304eff2a0c3f19b3de8518eeadd9b218.png) 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.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/avoid-costly-pc-downtime-with-the-help-of-bootable-media/) [17 October 2024 — 3 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 6: A refreshed cyber resilience plan can help your business in three significant ways](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f2497f8a81aa1470bbcdc8511729bd38.png) 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.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/a-refreshed-cyber-resilience-plan-can-help-your-business-in-three-significant-ways/) [31 July 2024 — 4 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 7: Murphy's Law and the lessons of the CrowdStrike outage](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/332716d67eee92200307e282e1a27410.png) 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.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/lessons-of-the-crowdstrike-outage/) [24 July 2024 — 6 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 8: Keeping your business current with evolving IT compliance requirements](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/017aaae695d5e788b862938c899f00e2.png) Keeping your business current with evolving IT compliance requirements Improve your cyber resilience to address HIPAA 2024, NIS 2, and other IT compliance updates](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/keeping-your-business-current-with-evolving-it-compliance-requirements/) [18 July 2024 — 5 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 9: Data protection issues in air-gapped factory-floor environments](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/2c88d9edf630a0e6378ea2050ba2cfc2.png) 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.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/data-protection-issues-in-air-gapped-factory-floor-environments/) [24 May 2024 — 7 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 10: Lessons learned from the UnitedHealthcare cyberattack](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/a608fc653c9332adda76459d77a5a8d1.png) 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.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/lessons-learned-from-the-unitedhealthcare-cyberattack/) [21 July 2021 — 5 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 11: MSPs learn cyber protection best practices from sports tech leaders at #MSInspire](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) 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”.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/msps-learn-cyber-protection-best-practices-sports-tech-leaders-msinspire/) [15 June 2021 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 12: Catching a wave: Exploring the hosting industry’s rapid growth](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) 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.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/catching-wave-exploring-hosting-industrys-rapid-growth/) [08 June 2021 — 3 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 13: What’s a live ransomware attack look like? Take a look](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/bd62a55daae50fdec0d6a6b238034607.png) 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.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/whats-live-ransomware-attack-look-take-look/) [1](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/james-slaby/page/1/) [2](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/james-slaby/page/2/) [3](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/james-slaby/page/3/) [4](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/james-slaby/page/4/)