--- title: "Cyber protection for essential infrastructure: Acronis Cyber Protect Beta available for on-premises installation" description: Acronis Cyber Protect Beta available for on-premises installation, delivering cyber protection for essential infrastructure to all IT teams canonical_url: https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/cyber-protection-essential-infrastructure-acronis-cyber-protect-beta-available-premises/ locale: en last_updated: 2026-10-27 --- [Acronis Blog](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/) # Cyber protection for essential infrastructure: Acronis Cyber Protect Beta available for on-premises installation Around the world, IT has grown in importance for many years – and with the COVID-19 outbreak, it instantly became mission-critical. Almost overnight, it’s become impossible to get essential work done without a reliable remote workplace infrastructure. Today, every person and business depends on IT and reliable IT requires cyber protection. Now Acronis delivers Acronis Cyber Protect, a unique set of innovations that balance all five vectors to provide modern protection in an easy, efficient, and secure way. Easy and efficient protection is made possible due to the deep integration of technologies for data protection, security, and authenticity, and hybrid cloud architecture designed for privacy. [Learn More](https://www.acronis.com/en/products/cyber-protect/) [![Image 2: Gaidar Magdanurov](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/content/5fdf40f1e96ea6f14a2264eab3f1ddf9.png)](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/gaidar-magdanurov/ "Gaidar Magdanurov") [Gaidar Magdanurov,](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/authors/gaidar-magdanurov/)President 3 min read Last updated 16 June 2020 Around the world, IT has grown in importance for many years – and with the COVID-19 outbreak, it instantly became mission-critical. Almost overnight, it’s become impossible to get essential work done without a reliable remote workplace infrastructure. Today, every person and business depends on IT and reliable IT requires cyber protection. The inability to protect IT often leads to [**senior managers losing jobs**](https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/want-keep-your-job-mr-ceo-youd-better-take-data-security-seriously) over the data breaches and [**companies going out of business**](https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/flat-lined-ransomware-attacks-force-medical-facilities-go-out-business) after the data loss. Meanwhile, companies that are able to protect their IT infrastructure and use data gain a significant competitive advantage – jumping ahead of the competition, saving on costs, generating new business, and creating job opportunities for employees. **Acronis provides a complete set of infrastructure, platform, and services to enable cyber protection.** The modern digital world requires strategies and solutions that address the Five Vectors of Cyber Protection: * **Safety –** nothing is lost: there is always a copy for recovery * **Accessibility –** access from anywhere at any time * **Privacy –** control over visibility and access * **Authenticity –** proof a copy is an exact replica of the original * **Security –** protection against malicious actors ### On-premises protection with Acronis Cyber Protect Now Acronis delivers **Acronis Cyber Protect,**a unique set of innovations that balance all five vectors to provide modern protection in an easy, efficient, and secure way. Easy and efficient protection is made possible due to the deep integration of technologies for data protection, security, and authenticity, and hybrid cloud architecture designed for privacy. ![Image 3: Acronis Cyber Protect - one console for all your protections](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/content/a431fa6785ee0fd19a9f8191260bf04e.png) Acronis Cyber Protect - one console for all your protections Acronis Cyber Protect is **better and more secure than backup****alone.** This integrated solution is: * **Proactive –**Avoid downtime using vulnerability assessments and patch management, removal of malware from backups, hard drive health checks, and patching on recovery to prevent reoccurring infections. * **Active –**Keep operations running with continuous data protection, real-time defenses against viruses, ransomware, and crypto-jacking, and self-defense capabilities that guard the agent and backup storage. * **Reactive –**Respond to incidents with integrated disaster recovery, metadata storage for the forensic investigation of incidents, and the ability to co-exist with other security solutions. Plus, you get **better endpoint security** that’s VB100 Certified and proven to have a 100% detection rate with zero false positives by _both_ Virus Bulletin _and_ independent security lab AV-Test. ![Image 4: Acronis Cyber Protect - anti-malware scan](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/content/3bfa3923bb4ae3ed9fb94c43ab2cabea.png) Acronis Cyber Protect - anti-malware scan ### Join the beta Be among the first to test our real-time anti-malware; anti-ransomware protection; on-demand scanning and malware removal; AI-based pre-execution analysis; behavioral analysis; and dynamic detection rules. By joining the beta, you will personally see how the **innovative capabilities** offered by Acronis Cyber Protect address many of today’s backup and security challenges: * **Simplified administration.** Discover all of the devices that require protection and remotely install a single agent for anti-malware, backup, remote desktop, patch, etc. * **Remote work protection.**Keep remote workers productive and protected with a VPN, remote wipe, secure file sync and share, protection for remote work tools, etc. * **Zero-day malware and ransomware protection.** Get the industry-leading, AI-based Acronis Active Protection, which has been extended with a static analyzer and behavioral analysis. * **Compliance and forensic investigations.** You’re equipped with image-based backups and the vital forensic data that’s needed for post-incident investigations. * **Protection for all key files.** See what data is covered at a glance via Acronis’ comprehensive Data Protection Map. * **Real-time protection of important documents.** Continuous Data Protection immediately saves all changes to critical files, even between backups, for near-zero RPOs. * **Post-malware-attack recovery.**Lower risk of reinfection and ensure safe, fast recoveries with anti-malware scans and patch updates of backups. _(Not available in beta)_ * **Auto-response to emerging threats.** Adjust the scope and the schedule of backups or anti-malware scans based on real-time alerts from Acronis Cyber Protection Operation Centers. _(Not available in beta)_ To try the Acronis Cyber Protect Beta, simply [click here](https://www.acronis.com/en-us/business/cyber-protect/trial/#/registration). _**SPECIAL OFFER:** Any customer who purchases an [Acronis Cyber Backup](https://www.acronis.com/en-us/business/backup/) subscription now will receive a free Acronis Cyber Protect subscription as soon the final production version becomes generally available. Don’t delay, this is a limited time offer._ ### Acronis Cyber Protect Presentation [Video 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5VzZAJSnkM) [Cybersecurity](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/tags/cybersecurity/) [Cyber protection](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/tags/cyber-protection/) ## Written by ![Image 5: Gaidar Magdanurov](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/content/5fdf40f1e96ea6f14a2264eab3f1ddf9.png) Gaidar Magdanurov President As a President at Acronis, Gaidar is responsible for partner enablement, education, and Acronis marketing organizations. He joined Acronis in 2013 as a Business Manager to CEO, becoming Vice President of online business and General Manager for consumer business in 2016, Chief Marketing Officer in 2017, Chief Success Officer in 2020, and President in 2023. Previously an investment director at venture capital fund Runa Capital, Gaidar was responsible for seed-stage investments, advising and educating entrepreneurs, supporting the business development of portfolio companies, and maintaining relationships with startup incubators and accelerators. Before Runa Capital, Gaidar served in various roles at Microsoft, from a technology evangelist to a Microsoft Seed Fund managing director. Before Microsoft, he worked as a software engineer and IT administrator for various companies. Gaidar holds a master’s degree in chemistry. [Previous post](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/ransomware-leaking-more-data-many-data-breaches/) [Ransomware leaking more data than many data breaches](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/ransomware-leaking-more-data-many-data-breaches/) [Next post](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/acronis-cyber-protect-cloud-earns-vb100-certification/) [Acronis Cyber Platform earns VB100 certification](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/acronis-cyber-protect-cloud-earns-vb100-certification/) About Acronis Acronis is a leader in AI-native cyber protection, unifying data protection, cybersecurity, IT operations and hybrid infrastructure to deliver business continuity, security and compliance with less cost and complexity. More than 21,000 service providers trust Acronis to protect over 750,000 businesses in 150 countries. Acronis is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. 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