Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud's new advance pack, powered by
Perception Point, blocks email-borne threats from reaching client
inboxes
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, June 10, 2021 - Acronis, the global leader in
cyber
protection, today released a new advanced protection pack for
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud. Powered by the industry-leading
solution from Perception
Point, the new Advanced Email Security pack enables service
providers to enhance and extend their cybersecurity
capabilities by detecting and stopping all email-borne cyberthreats
before they can reach their clients' end users.
The native integration of Acronis
Cyber Protect Cloud with
Advanced Email Security means MSPs can use one solution to
extend their cyber protection
services to protect their clients' Microsoft 365, Google
Workspace, Open-Xchange mailboxes, or on-premises mail server.
Advanced Email Security intercepts all email-based threats,
including spam, phishing and spoofing, business email compromises
(BECs), advanced persistent threats (APTs), and even the zero-day
malware attacks that are behind 80% of breaches [1].
"Email is both business-critical and the top threat vector for
organizations today. For service providers, preventing email
threats from reaching their clients is vital," said Jan-Jaap "JJ"
Jager, Board Advisor & Chief Revenue Officer at Acronis. "The new
Advanced Email Security pack marries the best-in-class technology
from Perception Point with the unified cybersecurity, data
protection, and endpoint protection of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud.
As a result, MSPs have everything needed to keep clients secure and
their business efficient and profitable."
"We are thrilled to partner with Acronis to power the leading
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud solution, with Perception Point,
integrated as the
Advanced Email Security pack," said Yoram Salinger, CEO of
Perception Point. "Together we are making enterprise-grade
cybersecurity solutions available to all MSPs and their
end-customers. Acronis' and Perception Point's approach helps us
realize our vision of combining the best technology with
personalized services, to protect customers from the broad range of
constantly evolving threats."
Proven email security
While legacy sandboxing technologies assess threats reactively,
which limits how much traffic can be scanned and delays malware
verdicts by up to 20 minutes, the technology in Advanced Email
Security scales to cover 100% of the email traffic and shortens
that scanning time to a maximum of 30 seconds.
As a result, Advanced Email Security enables MSPs to
automatically:
- Stop phishing and spoofing attempts by leveraging powerful threat intelligence, heuristics, URL reputation checks, unique computer vision algorithms, and machine-intelligence-enhanced Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record checks.
- Detect advanced evasion techniques used to hide malicious content. To do this, the solution recursively unpacks embedded files and URLs, and separately analyzes them with dynamic and static detection engines.
- Prevent malware and email threats that evade conventional defenses such as advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero-day attacks. By leveraging Perception Point's unique CPU-level technology, it acts earlier in the attack chain to block exploits before the malware is released and delivers a clear verdict within seconds.
Unlike other email security solutions, Acronis Cyber Protect
Cloud with Advanced Email Security also stops threats delivered via
internal email addresses, preventing malware from spreading
laterally throughout an organization.
Advanced Email Security is the latest advanced protection pack
released for Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, which enables MSPs to
build services at little to no upfront expense, ensuring 100%
coverage of clients' workloads with cyber protection.
Additional advanced protection packs such as Advanced
Backup, Advanced
Security,
Advanced Disaster Recovery, and Advanced
Management give MSPs the flexibility to expand and customize
their services to deliver the optimum level of cyber protection for
each client and every workload.
Partners and analysts respond to the new solution pack
"Bluefin trusts Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud because we've seen
how it's enabled us to provide a comprehensive range of cyber
protection services to our clients - and Advanced Email Security is
an exciting, welcome addition," said Dawn Wilson, Chief Executive
Officer of Bluefin Technology Group. "With data breaches that are
happening daily, we're expected to keep our clients' email inboxes
safe and protected. This addition makes it easy for us to enhance
our services with email security that is proven without having to
add a whole new vendor and set-up."
According to Simon Edwards, CEO of SE Labs, the Advanced Email
Security pack gives MSPs a single, multi-layered email security
solution that detects threats more quickly and more precisely than
other options. Perception Point received top overall ranking in SE
Labs Independent testing, ranking #1 in detection rate,
false-positive rate, and overall accuracy rating.
"This extremely challenging test puts email services through a
very rigorous assessment and it is to Perception Point's credit
that it achieved first place and the highest AAA award," said
Edwards.
According to Gartner, "As organizations continue to migrate to
cloud email, the need to reevaluate email security is even greater.
The solutions and controls that were put in place for on-premises
email solutions are no longer enough." Further, Gartner states,
"Integrated email security solutions (IESSs) provide many of the
capabilities in an SEG such as advanced malware protection, sandbox
analysis and URL analysis, intercepting malicious emails before
they reach a user's inbox." Perception Point was recognized as a
Representative Vendor for IESS in the 2020 Gartner Market Guide for
Email Security report.
Any service provider interested in learning more about Acronis
Cyber Protect Cloud with Advanced Email Security is encouraged to
view a demonstration at the
Acronis Demo Center or go to https://www.acronis.com/en-us/products/cyber-protect/.
About Perception Point
Perception Point is a Prevention-as-a-Service company, offering
fast interception of any content-based attack across all
collaboration channels, including email, cloud storage, CRM apps,
and messaging platforms. The company prevents phishing, BEC, spam,
malware, Zero-days, and N-days well before they reach enterprise
users. Deployed in minutes with no change to the enterprise's
infrastructure, the Perception Point solution conforms with any
policy and requires zero fuss from IT teams. The company's Incident
Response team serves as a force multiplier to the enterprise's SOC
team.
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. For more information, visit www.acronis.com.