Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Staying compliant is essential for protecting your organization from unexpected costs and reputational damage. As regulations grow more complex, businesses must ensure consistent adherence to security and data protection standards. With the rise of hybrid and remote work, solutions like Acronis Protected Workspace provide a secure, controlled environment designed to help organizations meet evolving compliance needs with confidence.

Managing today’s complex and distributed IT environments requires more than traditional monitoring tools. MSPs need intelligent and automated systems that can detect issues early, streamline service delivery, and strengthen security across every endpoint they manage. That is where AI RMM software becomes essential. By providing a centralized platform, AI RMM software enables managed service providers to monitor client endpoints and perform remote management efficiently.

Nowadays, businesses of all sizes rely on MSPs and IT service providers for key functions such as cybersecurity, cloud management, and digital transformation, because it is often more cost-effective and efficient than handling these tasks in-house. However, that places enormous pressure on those providers because they are expected to solve a wide range of problems around the clock.

Modern managed service providers (MSPs) need more than disconnected tools to stay efficient and competitive. Growing MSPs and IT service providers are increasingly seeking unified remote monitoring and management (RMM) and professional services automation (PSA) solutions to support their expanding operations and streamline workflows.

If you’re an IT MSP, vulnerability assessment has grown from a river to a flood over the last couple of years. In 2020, there were 18,000 recorded common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). By 2024, that number had more than doubled, eclipsing 40,000. And 2025 is showing no signs of reversing the trend. The rise of vulnerabilities means that manual vulnerability assessment is no longer possible.

Industrial organizations face a stark reality: Downtime is costly, disruptive and cannot be entirely prevented. Whether it’s a cyberattack, hardware failure or simple data corruption, operational technology (OT) environments must be ready to recover quickly. In a recent podcast, Stephen Nichols, Country Manager for Canada at Acronis, shared his perspective on why rapid recovery is now a fundamental pillar of industrial resilience and how modern backup strategies are evolving to meet the challenge.

It’s evident that the cybersecurity industry took notice of the remarkable growth and maturation Acronis achieved in 2025. Through comprehensive analyst evaluations, rigorous third-party testing and user reviews, leading organizations across the cybersecurity spectrum have validated the development of Acronis as a comprehensive leader in cyber protection. A complete list of analyst reports and user review recognitions, as well as test results Acronis accumulated in 2025, includes.

This new guidance amounts to leading Western governments telling OT users (industrial businesses in manufacturing, energy, power, logistics, critical infrastructure, and the like), “Yes, you can use AI in OT, but only if you’re prepared for it to fail and you can recover quickly when it does.”

The systems that grow, process and deliver our food operate in a world most of us never see: legacy equipment, air-gapped networks and decades-old operating systems quietly controlling the machinery that keeps supply chains moving. What happens when modern cyber threats collide with this aging infrastructure? The answer is more urgent than most people realize.

Industrial plant managers and operational technology (OT) engineers have been closely following the August 2025 cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover, which brought down its production lines for months and is expected to eventually cost the U.K. automaker billions of dollars in losses. It is a timely reminder that cybercriminals are actively targeting manufacturers and other industrial concerns that rely on OT, and merely the latest in a series of similar attacks, including.

In the latest independent MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with EDR / XDR demonstrated the performance MSPs value most: proven detection without high-volume noise, helping teams scale services efficiently while protecting clients against advanced real-world threats.

Artificial intelligence is changing how businesses work and compete. In every corner of the market, organizations expect more productivity. The question facing today’s business leaders is no longer whether to embrace artificial intelligence but how to harness its full potential to drive meaningful and sustainable transformation.

Dharma, also known as CrySiS, is a long running ransomware family first observed in 2016. It operates as ransomware as a service, where developers lease the malware to affiliates who deploy it. A variant discovered in March 2021 appends the ".biden" extension to encrypted files. This article provides a technical analysis of Dharma, outlines its infection vector, describes its encryption workflow, and offers guidance for mitigation.

Technology failures are inevitable in operational technology (OT) environments. While prevention is essential, the ability to recover quickly is what ultimately protects operations. When OT systems fail, production stops and the costs of reduced production, missed deliveries and possible regulatory problems immediately begin to accumulate. Manufacturers, utilities and industrial operators need to be able to get systems up and running again as rapidly as possible after an incident.

Acronis once again received recognition from Info-Tech SoftwareReviews, this time in the form of an Emotional Footprint Award for extended detection and response (EDR). The latest accolade highlights Acronis’ growing leadership in cybersecurity and its dedication to delivering solutions that managed service providers (MSPs) love.

Microsoft 365 has become the backbone of modern business productivity, with more than 450 million paid seats and over 300 million monthly Teams users. But this widespread adoption comes with a sobering reality: Microsoft 365 is now a prime target for cybercriminals worldwide.

The importance of cyber resilience is very real and growing due to an accelerating threat landscape for manufacturers that shows no signs of slowing down. The SANS Institute’s 2025 State of ICS/OT Cybersecurity Survey reveals troubling trends that should reshape how manufacturers think about operational security.

When alerts flood in at 2 a.m., your team shouldn't have to guess whether it's a critical failure or another false alarm. That uncertainty is what causes alert fatigue, a systematic problem that leads to slower response times, team burnout, and missed incidents. Fortunately, there's a solution: By replacing noisy, traditional methods with smart alert management, you can turn a flood of alerts into a stream of actionable insight.

In our hyperconnected landscape, software vulnerabilities are proliferating at a record pace. In 2024 alone, more than 40,000 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) were published, marking a 38% increase over the previous year. Many of these vulnerabilities are weaponized within days, leaving organizations exposed if updates are not applied immediately. Patch management software addresses this risk by automating the detection, acquisition, and deployment of software updates across an IT environment.

When you decide to migrate your system, the goal is to move everything, including your operating system, applications, data and even personal settings, to a new storage device while preserving how things looked, worked and felt before. With the right migration software, you can easily do that and move from an older HDD to a faster new SSD, a larger HDD or a new computer with minimal effort and without spending countless hours manually rebuilding everything from scratch.

Synology and Acronis announced a joint collaboration to enhance customer data security. All Synology BeeDrive, BeeStation, and BeeStation Plus product lines now include a three-year license to Acronis True Image Essentials for one computer. This partnership enables users to perform full-system computer backups while maintaining complete ownership and control of their data through local storage.

To build a reliable disaster-recovery foundation for your Mac, maintain regular disk clones alongside your Time Machine backups. Acronis True Image allows you to schedule automatic weekly clones that capture an exact, bootable replica of your entire system. Time Machine is excellent for incremental file recovery, but a full clone is what saves you when drives fail, systems refuse to boot, or critical data becomes corrupted.

Setting up a new PC at home and realizing you have to reinstall Windows, download all your apps, and redo your settings from scratch - more than once, can be incredibly tedious and time-consuming. Now imagine your PC is freshly set up with a clean version of Windows, all your drivers installed, your favorite apps ready to go, and your personal settings restored within 30-40 minutes. No stress, no waiting, just a perfectly working computer exactly how you like it.