--- title: Latest stories from Marcelo Andrieu 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/marcelo-andrieu/ locale: en last_updated: 2026-10-11 --- [Acronis Blog](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/) [Authors](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/) Marcelo Andrieu ![Image 1: Marcelo Andrieu](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/content/4ebd2c6ab90855a20d45286557169382.png) Marcelo Andrieu # Latest stories from Marcelo Andrieu [08 November 2016 — 3 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 2: Simple Steps to Network Security: Device Passwords and Key Locks](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) What Is Blockchain and What Does It Mean for Data Protection? Blockchain is a technology that underpins the success of Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Wall Street is particularly interested in blockchain: The elimination of manual processes around reconciliation with customers, trading partners, and securities exchanges using blockchain is projected to save banks nearly $20 billion annually by 2022. Blockchain has uses beyond financial transactions to improve the security and efficiencies of a range of business activities such as applications requiring transparency on data and documents with a permanent time and date stamp. In insurance, for example, blockchain technology can be used for customer onboarding, smart contracts, and fraud detection. In manufacturing, blockchain is being used in supply chain applications and 3D printing. To better understand blockchain, let’s first look at why blockchain is so important and how it ensures the integrity and efficiency of the Bitcoin network. Then, we will look at how Acronis provides a solution that uses blockchain to record and protect the authenticity of your business assets.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/what-blockchain-and-what-does-it-mean-data-protection/) [20 October 2016 — 3 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 3: 3 Must Have Apps to Keep Your Mobile Salesforce Productive and Secure](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) Universal Software-Defined Storage (SDS) – A Better Way to Manage Your Storage Infrastructure What is SDS? So, just what we need, another acronym. Right? But what we do need is a way to manage storage software separately from the underlying hardware. That’s SDS — Software Defined Storage.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/universal-software-defined-storage-sds-better-way-manage-your-storage-infrastructure/) [01 September 2016 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 4: Acronis activEcho 3.0 Delivers Enterprise-Grade Control and Security for Corporate File Sharing and Syncing](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30ed349a67c19cf8c26685d868f90f47.png) 68 million reasons to keep consumer-grade apps like Dropbox out of your business](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/68-million-reasons-keep-consumer-grade-apps-dropbox-out-your-business/) [11 December 2015 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 5: 3 Must Have Apps to Keep Your Mobile Salesforce Productive and Secure](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) 3 Must Have Apps to Keep Your Mobile Salesforce Productive and Secure In today's world, sales people are naturally mobile. Although non-sales people tend to view successful sales people as “demigods,” there is no doubt they are often dynamic, have “nerves of steel,” make things happen, and are always available. For all of these reasons, your salespeople must have access to resources 24x7.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/3-must-have-apps-keep-your-mobile-salesforce-productive-and-secure/) [16 June 2015 — 3 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 6: Acronis activEcho 3.0 Delivers Enterprise-Grade Control and Security for Corporate File Sharing and Syncing](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30ed349a67c19cf8c26685d868f90f47.png) Hey IT Managers – What You Need to Know About Macs in the Enterprise It’s a fact that Macs have gained a lot of traction in SMBs and enterprises over the past few years. You cannot deny it: Employees love their Macs. Why? Macs are especially good at certain tasks like design, creative services, and production. They are easy to use and reliable with more and more employees that use Apple devices in their personal lives asking to use them at work. And of course, they are cool.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/hey-it-managers-what-you-need-know-about-macs-enterprise/) [01 May 2015 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 7: activEcho 3.0 – The User Side of Things](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) Leverage Your Storage Investment for More ROI with Sync & Share In today’s business world, we need to justify every dollar that we spend, lowering costs, and delivering a return on investment on everything we do. Nowhere is this more true than in IT, where Big Data, Mobility and BYOD are changing the way we work across the globe, requiring companies to an IT depratments to invest and change to remain competitive.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/leverage-your-storage-investment-more-roi-sync-share/) [24 February 2015 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 8: activEcho 3.0 – The User Side of Things](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) Acronis Access – Scalability, a scary thing… Over the years, working with and listening to thousands of customers of all sizes, we’ve learned a lot about what they need, their challenges, and the effect of what we do in what they do. We’ve also noticed that some concepts, or the words that simply represent them, are just scary to our IT friends. Scalability is one of them.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/acronis-access-scalability-scary-thing/) [12 January 2015 — 3 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 9: Why you need Secure Sync and Share for mobile…](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) Why you need Secure Sync and Share for mobile… Not too long ago (even 5 or 10 years seems an eternity) life was easy. Most of us were tied to our desks. The ones that were not, like sales people, would carry boxes with printed materials and price lists in the trunks of their cars. Remote workers would dial in and connect via VPN to access their file servers.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/why-you-need-secure-sync-and-share-mobile/) [22 November 2013 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 10: activEcho 3.0 – The User Side of Things](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) activEcho 3.0 – The User Side of Things If you read my previous entry, you could tell that I’m all about talking to customers in IT first, then putting my head down to deliver what Enterprise IT groups are demanding in terms of control, security, management and visibility.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/activecho-30-user-side-things/) [14 November 2013 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 11: Acronis activEcho 3.0 Delivers Enterprise-Grade Control and Security for Corporate File Sharing and Syncing](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30ed349a67c19cf8c26685d868f90f47.png) Acronis activEcho 3.0 Delivers Enterprise-Grade Control and Security for Corporate File Sharing and Syncing The advent of enterprise mobility has radically affected the way organizations conduct business. No matter whether you are talking to customers from markets as diverse as Pharma, Health, Financial, Education, Publishing, Advertising, Government, Legal, or service providers, it’s a fact that mobility is here to stay. But while it brings all kinds of benefits it also creates a new set of challenges.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/acronis-activecho-30-delivers-enterprise-grade-control-and-security-corporate-file-sharing-and/) [25 July 2013 — 1 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 12: Simple Steps to Network Security: Device Passwords and Key Locks](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) Simple Steps to Network Security: Device Passwords and Key Locks Allowing employees to use their personal mobile devices for work can provide a multitude of advantages: productivity, simpler connectivity, access to the resources they need from virtually anywhere. But along with the benefits, bring your own device (BYOD) opens the door to risks, including security vulnerabilities, data leakage, compliance and potential liability issues.The magnitude of the problem is big, considering millions of these devices are lost, stolen or misplaced every year (120 thousand phones were lost in Chicago taxi cabs alone last year…).](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/simple-steps-network-security-device-passwords-and-key-locks/)