--- title: Acronis Blog 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/categories/cybersecurity/page/118/ locale: en last_updated: 2026-10-27 --- # Acronis Blog [Acronis Blog](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/) Cybersecurity # Most recent on Cybersecurity [![Image 1: stc Bahrain and Acronis partner to bring advanced endpoint security to businesses in Bahrain](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/9600f3eea83b8f4e168ea6c1409c8c26.png) 26 October 2026 — 3 min read stc Bahrain and Acronis partner to bring advanced endpoint security to businesses in Bahrain We are proud to announce a strategic partnership with stc Bahrain, expanding access to advanced cybersecurity services for businesses across Bahrain.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/stc-bahrain-and-acronis-partner-to-bring-endpoint-security-to-businesses/) [02 March 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 2: The nScaled Cloud Computing Console – Part 1](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) Starting our operations in the Europe – tough decisions on infrastructure On the back of our success in the US market, nScaled formally launched its European operations earlier this year.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/starting-our-operations-europe-tough-decisions-infrastructure/) [28 February 2011 — 2 min read ![Image 3: Cloud computing, becomes ‘computing’.](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) Preventing Disasters I talk with a lot of CIO’s and IT Directors around the US about how they go about protecting their firms from the risks of downtime . We usually cover topics such as:](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/preventing-disasters/) [10 February 2011 — 3 min read ![Image 4: Total costs vs. marginal costs](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) Time for Change – From Backup to Availability It’s all about application and site availability Backup is no substitute for site and application availability Henry David Thoreau clarifies our present situation when he said “Men have become the tools of their tools” CIOs, Storage Administrators and IT professionals are constantly challenged by limited time, talent, and budget to adequately deal with their real work issues of data growth, data protection, remote offices, compliance, migrations, disaster recovery, and server failure. Little time is afforded to ensure their IT applications and data are constantly available. As a result, organizations end up with several disparate point solutions which make data and application availability during a disaster very challenging and in most cases impossible to achieve. Over the past twenty years I have been involved with hundreds of storage related projects which include a long list of complex architectures, point solutions, technologies and more acronyms probably second only to the field of medicine. A short list would include something like this: LAN, WAN,SAN, SWAN, NAS, DAS, SCIS, iSCSI, FC, Infiniband, LTO, Replication, WAN Optimization, Data De-duplication, Backup, Archive, HSM, ILM, Content Management, Server Clustering, Mirroring, Search, Bare Metal Recovery, High Availability, Co-Stand Servers, Clustered File Systems, HyperVisor, Virtualization, RAID, Continuous Data Protection, and the list goes on. These words show up in glossaries of IT related books and probably the perfect architecture is imbedded in a Leonardo da Vinci painting. Like most everything, there is more than one way to approach and solve a particular problem. The proper way to approach and solve a company’s particular problem is to first define what the overall business requirement is. What is the organization’s tolerance for downtime (Recovery Time Objective)? How much data can they afford to lose (Recovery Point Objective) should a failure occur? The overall business requirement for virtually all businesses should be to ensure that its applications and data are available and if a failure of any kind occurs it can get its applications and data back online within its RTO. Budget constraints often dictate and more often than not create a gap between what the business’ service level agreement (SLA) needs to be versus what IT can actually implement. Ask yourself this simple question: If my site was completely destroyed how this would impact the business? How long would my critical applicationa be unavailable? To put it into real $$… International Data Corp. estimates that companies lose an average of $84,000 for every hour of downtime. According to Strategic Research, the cost of downtime is estimated at close to $90,000 per hour. The true cost of a data protection solution needs to include the costs of downtime. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you are an average company and if it took you 3-5 days to get your IT applications and data accessible, the resulting cost to your company would be in millions, not thousands of dollars. This doesn’t factor in the loss of customers and reputation. Let’s face it….. A business that cannot access its applications and or data cannot service its customers. The longer their critical applications and or data are not available, the higher the costs incurred and higher their risk of going out of business. Unfortunately very few companies can afford to take application and site availability into consideration due to the high cost of traditional redundant site architectures. Traditionally for every dollar spent for production another dollar is spent for a recovery site. Given the cost and labor to manage such redundant architectures, small to medium enterprises cannot afford to implement traditional solutions, leaving them unprepared to survive even a small disaster. nScaled is here to solve this problem for companies of all sizes. The nScaled Platform is designed to eliminate costly data centers and antiquated backup/recovery technologies by replacing it all with a powerful SAAS platform that speeds data , server and site recovery, automates and streamlines processes while reducing cost and complexity. No more spending money on things like redundant data centers and production environments unless you actually need to use them. It is like having car insurance for your applications and data…you only pay for a claim when you need to. But you have peace of mind knowing your business is insured in the event of an accident. BCDR on Demand! Brad Wenzel – VP of Channels nScaled, Inc.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/time-change-backup-availability/) [14 December 2010 — 2 min read ![Image 5: nScaled Community](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) nScaled predictions for 2011 1. Organizations will stop throwing big money at big storage The cost per GB of cloud storage will fuel the growing realization that the days of making million $ investments into privately managed, top tier SAN storage are coming to an end.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/nscaled-predictions-2011/) [20 August 2010 — 1 min read ![Image 6: The importance of testing](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) Video Short – Local File Recovery from Snapshot The following short video short shows the quick and simple process of recovering a file locally if you have protected it using some of the on-premise integrated tools that are part of nScaled’s Total Data Protection Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solution.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/video-short-local-file-recovery-snapshot/) [19 August 2010 — 1 min read ![Image 7: 1.0.13 beta update of nScaled Cloud Console](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) 1.0.13 beta update of nScaled Cloud Console On August 18th, 2010, we released the 1.0.13 update for the nScaled Cloud Console. Here’s what’s new in version 1.0.13, since previous release: New support portal – Users can now create new tickets, as well as update and review existing tickets. Users of Cloud Console can browse and search through a set of published solutions and download documentation from resource library. The support portal is available by clicking “SUPPORT” button in the upper navigation toolbar Event subsystem – Complete audit trail of user based events that is presented as widget in dashboard and sub-section in “MONITORING” New and improved email template Substantially Improved Dashboard performance Improved reliability of Cloud Console data synchronization services behind the scenes Various other fixes and improvements](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/1013-beta-update-nscaled-cloud-console/) [16 August 2010 — 1 min read ![Image 8: The nScaled Cloud Computing Console – Part 2](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/bd62a55daae50fdec0d6a6b238034607.png) The nScaled Cloud Computing Console – Part 2 In today’s installment to review with you the nScaled console I present a recent update we made that begins to surface important data about what you have purchased and are using, the “data growth” widget and how much data you are sending and receiving to and from your business continuity site over time with the “Data Center Connectivity” widget.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/nscaled-cloud-computing-console-part-2/) [19 July 2010 — 2 min read ![Image 9: The nScaled Cloud Computing Console – Part 1](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) The nScaled Cloud Computing Console – Part 1 Over the next few days and weeks I will be introducing and detailing individual features and functionality of the nScaled Cloud Computing console via this blog series. It’s my goal to provide more information, thoughts, options and demonstrations of how nScaled, Inc. provides business continuity to our clients. This first post will be a general introduction to the nScaled Cloud Computing Console and a small screencast of what happens when a server starts in the nScaled cloud.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/nscaled-cloud-computing-console-part-1/) [19 July 2010 — 2 min read ![Image 10: Cloud computing, becomes ‘computing’.](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) Cloud computing, becomes ‘computing’. Lately I have been noticing an accelerating trend (albeit completely anecdotal) of web services starting to imitate one another. The followers start to look like the leaders, or they adopt the best practices proven by the leaders as their own, and these pretty soon become industry standards.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/cloud-computing-becomes-computing/) [10 July 2010 — 2 min read ![Image 11: Total costs vs. marginal costs](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) Total costs vs. marginal costs An important part of most discussions about clouds is an analysis of costs. People are strongly driven to try to reduce the costs of their burdensome infrastructure, particularly when a large part of it is almost never used (the DR provisions), yet is as costly as the primary in some cases. Most technical people we talk to are impressed with nScaled solutions, but that appreciation is viewed differently when they have to present it to their management team and justify the investment, and so the talk inevitably turns to costs.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/total-costs-vs-marginal-costs/) [01 July 2010 — 1 min read ![Image 12: nScaled Community](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) nScaled Community Lately some of our customers have been asking us to provide more interactive feedback features. Of course we think this is a great idea. In fact we have under development (and scheduled for release in late July) a comprehensive support area within the Cloud Console.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/nscaled-community/) [28 June 2010 — 2 min read ![Image 13: The importance of testing](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) The importance of testing One of the things I consistently hear as I talk with clients about Disaster Recovery, is that it’s complicated. This whether the client has invested heavily in DR or not. In many cases people might have made substantial investments in technology and duplicate infrastructure and have some highly skilled people on the team – yet they still have questionable levels of confidence in their systems – and this causes them to loose sleep at night.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/importance-testing/) [1](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/cybersecurity/page/1/)...[113](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/cybersecurity/page/113/) [114](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/cybersecurity/page/114/) [115](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/cybersecurity/page/115/) [116](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/cybersecurity/page/116/) [117](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/cybersecurity/page/117/) [118](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/cybersecurity/page/118/) [119](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/cybersecurity/page/119/)