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October 13, 2026 — 6 min read
Acronis expands MDR toward broader workspace protection
October 13, 2026 — 6 min read
Acronis expands MDR toward broader workspace protection
Acronis is expanding the MDR service with capabilities that make this expertise easier to deliver and help partners address more risks. The developments build on a broader commitment to managed security: helping service providers protect the connected workspace while giving customers access to the expertise needed to investigate threats, respond effectively and maintain business continuity.
June 02, 2020 — 7 min read
4 Steps to Manage Your MSP Business During A Crisis
June 02, 2020 — 7 min read
4 Steps to Manage Your MSP Business During A Crisis
In the managed service provider (MSP) channel, Forrester tells us that about 25% of service providers are running at break-even, even during great economic times. That means that now, more than ever, it’s critical to be managing cash well. But crisis cash management is different than day-to-day management when profits are high and cash flow is steady. The fundamentals of managing your business don’t change during a crisis regardless of what causes that crisis. Whether the cause is a natural disaster, ransomware attack, keyman illness, or a pandemic-induced recession like COVID-19, there are real, practical, and effective ways to respond to ensure the survival of your business in the short and long term.
May 28, 2020 — 3 min read
The 2020 MSP Cybersecurity Readiness Survey Results: Exploring Current and Planned Security Capabilities
May 28, 2020 — 3 min read
The 2020 MSP Cybersecurity Readiness Survey Results: Exploring Current and Planned Security Capabilities
We recently shared our excitement about a new research study we commissioned that looked at the trends in managed security and backup among MSPs. That blog provided an overview of the survey’s methodology and a few preliminary data points. In this blog, we will dive into the first main section of the survey which looked at security, and we will discuss how the findings relate to the benefits provided by Acronis Cyber Platform.
May 21, 2020 — 4 min read
The Post-COVID Landscape for MSPs: A Chat with Forrester’s Jay McBain
May 21, 2020 — 4 min read
The Post-COVID Landscape for MSPs: A Chat with Forrester’s Jay McBain
I recently had a great conversation with Jay McBain, Principal Analyst for Channels and Partnerships at Forrester, about how the economic downturn caused by COVID-19 will affect the channel – specifically the MSP Channel. There was a lot of territory to cover: from looking at the current state of the channel to how many in the channel may (or may not) survive the economic hardship to examining the real opportunities the pandemic has created for MSPs. I’ll recap our conversation below and you can watch the full interview as well, but long story short: while many in the channel will struggle to survive, there are also tremendous opportunities ahead.
May 18, 2020 — 3 min read
Latest on COVID-19 Hacks, MS-focused Phishing Attacks, Shade Decryption Keys, and Troldesh Ransomware
May 18, 2020 — 3 min read
Latest on COVID-19 Hacks, MS-focused Phishing Attacks, Shade Decryption Keys, and Troldesh Ransomware
There is always a lot happening in the world of cybersecurity, so we’ve captured some of the latest highlights in this week’s roundup.
May 18, 2020 — 5 min read
Identifying Data Threats Early
May 18, 2020 — 5 min read
Identifying Data Threats Early
If you work in the information security field long enough, eventually you come to the understanding that you have a job that means – at some point in your career – you will make a mistake or overlook something that will lead to data being compromised. The failure could be a small, fleeting moment with little to no harm done, or it might be catastrophic and lead to public scrutiny and lawsuits.
May 15, 2020 — 5 min read
Cyber Protection Includes Predicting Disk Drive Failures with Acronis AI
May 15, 2020 — 5 min read
Cyber Protection Includes Predicting Disk Drive Failures with Acronis AI
While cyber protection is most frequently discussed in relation to managing and securing operating software, it can also involve managing the hardware that stores your valuable data – namely your disk drives. Because if your drive fails, any data stored on it can be lost forever. All hard drives will fail at some point. While this is particularly true of traditional, magnetic disk hard drives (a.k.a. hard disk drives or HDD), newer solid state drives (SSD) that use flash memory also face issues once their memory cells start to fail. Several factors can lead to errors in these data storage devices. For complete cyber protection, ensuring the stability and reliability of your drive is critical to safeguarding your data.
May 12, 2020 — 3 min read
Announcing Acronis Cyber Platform #CyberFit Workload Bounty Program
May 12, 2020 — 3 min read
Announcing Acronis Cyber Platform #CyberFit Workload Bounty Program
Today we are announcing the Acronis Cyber Platform #CyberFit Workload Bounty Program – an initiative centered on our commitment to provide developers, ISVs, service providers, and OEMs programs that will drive greater cyber protection across more applications and systems. The Acronis Cyber Platform #CyberFit Workload Bounty Program aims to encourage organizations to develop and integrate the kind of native cyber protection solutions needed to meet the current explosion in data volumes and data sources – all of which needs protection.
May 12, 2020 — 3 min read
MSP Pioneer Answers the Question: Why Did You Join Acronis
May 12, 2020 — 3 min read
MSP Pioneer Answers the Question: Why Did You Join Acronis
As an MSP, I was always looking for better tools, tools that would ultimately help me deliver a higher level of service to my clients. As expensive as it is to change tools, if the benefits outweighed the pain of switching, I was all over it. Today, protecting your clients from cyberthreats has become a full-time job. Exploits are created every minute of every day, making it practically impossible for most IT service providers to keep pace to counter them all. Now more than ever, MSPs need modern tools to manage modern threats.
May 11, 2020 — 1 min read
GigaOM’s Voices in Innovation Talks COVID-19 Impact with Gaidar Magdanurov
May 11, 2020 — 1 min read
GigaOM’s Voices in Innovation Talks COVID-19 Impact with Gaidar Magdanurov
The 30-minute conversation focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the data protection and cybersecurity landscape, and what the long-term effects of the near-global lockdown will likely be. Naturally, there was a heavy focus on the cyber protection implications of the incredible shift to working from home.
May 11, 2020 — 2 min read
Announcing the 2020 MSP Cybersecurity Readiness Survey Results
May 11, 2020 — 2 min read
Announcing the 2020 MSP Cybersecurity Readiness Survey Results
During the first quarter of 2020, Acronis commissioned Omdia (formerly Ovum) to conduct a survey of managed service providers (MSPs) to explore the trends in managed security and backup. The goal of the study was to get an up-to-date view on what cybersecurity and backup services are currently offered, what features matter most, what future plans they might have to expand their offerings, and what business, operational, and technical challenges make it harder for MSPs to execute. Naturally, we also wanted the perspective of MSPs and real data about the IT channel’s capabilities and concerns before launching Acronis Cyber Platform. It seems we’ve rolled out this new service just in time.
May 09, 2020 — 8 min read
How Cloud Hosting Services Can Benefit from Acronis
May 09, 2020 — 8 min read
How Cloud Hosting Services Can Benefit from Acronis
Cloud hosting has evolved over the years to be a powerful way to host websites and online services requiring greater levels of performance, reliability and scalability.
May 09, 2020 — 3 min read
What You Need to Know About Remote Work: Encrypt Everything
May 09, 2020 — 3 min read
What You Need to Know About Remote Work: Encrypt Everything
One of the key elements of data protection is encryption. Users who regularly back up their files are familiar with the concept since Acronis always recommends to store data in an encrypted form. Doing so protects your data in transit to a local server or to the cloud, and it protects data when it is being stored on different media. If someone gains access to your file – either accidentally or maliciously – that person won't be able to read it or easily decrypt it if strong encryption algorithms like AES-256 are used.