SYDNEY, 22 July 2026 – Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today hosted Acronis Cyber Day Australia 2026 at Pier One Sydney Harbour. The event focused on helping partners enhance cyber resilience, unlock new growth opportunities, and leverage emerging technologies to better protect their customers.
Acronis Cyber Day Australia 2026 featured keynote sessions, technical talks, and industry discussions covering regional cybersecurity trends, compliance, and business resilience, with speakers from the Australian InfoSec Association (AISA), Sydney FC, and Acronis. Attendees gained practical insights from Acronis leaders and security experts while networking with peers and partners committed to advancing cyber protection across Australia.
“Cyber resilience today requires more than technology alone,” said Richard Magalad, Chair Online Branch, Australian InfoSec Association. “Organisations that embed security, cyber awareness, compliance, and operational resilience into their strategy are better positioned to manage emerging risks and drive long-term success. AI-powered protection has become essential to stay ahead of evolving threats as cybercriminals increasingly use AI themselves."
MSPs can strengthen their service offerings through Acronis’ native cyber protection, intelligent automation, and integrated security technologies. Sessions explored the role of AI in enabling greater visibility and operational efficiency, as well as strategies to defend against evolving cyber threats while maintaining compliance and profitability. The event highlighted Acronis Cyber Frame, an integrated infrastructure platform and Acronis’ latest product release. Cyber Frame combines virtualisation, data storage, disaster recovery, backup, and cybersecurity into a single solution to simplify operations and improve cyber resilience.
“As cyberthreats continue to evolve, the industry requires operational simplification and continuous innovation to address concerns of security and protection,” said Pasha Ershow, Senior Vice President, APJ & MEA and Global Channel Strategy at Acronis. Acronis heavily invests into own complete AI-powered MSP platform - Acronis Cyber Protect, enhancing it with new capabilities such as GenAI Protection, the Cyber Frame infrastructure offering, and complete M365 Protection. By unifying cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management into a single natively integrated platform, Acronis helps more than 2,000 partners in the Asia Pacific region operate more efficiently, expand their service offerings, and drive business growth."
The event also featured a partner recognition ceremony celebrating outstanding achievements across the Acronis ecosystem. The award session recognised partners that have demonstrated phenomenal innovation, growth, and commitment to delivering world-class cyber protection solutions throughout Australia and New Zealand.
The 2026 Acronis Partner Award winners are as follows:
- Platinum Partners - Nueva, IT First Responder, OpSys, Zeal Consultants, Concept Data, WOTLINK, Extranet Systems, GZD, Matrix Solutions, 27BC, IT&T, Voyager, and Edge8 IT
- Distributor of the Year ANZ – Leader
- Distributor Champion of the Year Award ANZ – Cesar Tse
The day concluded with a networking cocktail and surprise experience, giving attendees the opportunity to connect with Acronis executives, industry experts, and peers to discuss strategies for driving growth in the evolving cybersecurity market.
To learn more about Acronis and its Cyber Protect solution, visit: https://www.acronis.com/en/products/cloud/cyber-protect/
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.