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Cyberattacks do not respect normal business hours: They can happen at night, on weekends and during holidays. Acronis MDR by Acronis TRU gives partners 24/7/365 expert monitoring, investigation and response without having to build their own security operations center (SOC). 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.

Backup is not the outcome. Recovery is. When critical data becomes unavailable, businesses need more than a completed backup job. They need confidence that their data is protected, available and ready for recovery. That is why Acronis is introducing the Anti-Ransomware Recovery Warranty for eligible customers using Acronis Cloud Storage. The capability adds a clear recovery commitment to the secure cloud storage foundation customers already rely on.

Singapore's labour market is changing, and the numbers show it. The Ministry of Manpower's (MOM) latest Q2 2026 labour report recorded 4,620 retrenchments in the second quarter of 2026, the highest since the end of 2020. Job vacancies slipped to 68,600, with the sharpest falls in professional roles in financial services and in information and communications. Laid-off residents are also taking longer to find their next role. Only 54.9% found work within six months, down from 60.7% the previous quarter.

This year's National Cybersecurity Alliance Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme, “Don’t make it easy for them,” asks us to look beyond today’s cyber risks by building good habits into our everyday routines. Practicing those habits consistently can make life harder for cybercriminals. While technology continues to transform how we work and communicate, one thing remains unchanged: Strong cybersecurity starts with people.

Cyber resilience depends on more than recovery. Organizations need to protect critical data, empower users to recognize threats, maintain visibility across IT environments and ensure recovery is available when it matters most. Acronis Cyber Protect v17 Q3 2026 expands integrated cyber protection with new capabilities that strengthen security awareness, improve backup operations and extend protection across more virtual environments.

Author: Alexander Ivanyuk Advanced attacks often use trusted Windows components and legitimate-looking files to conceal malicious activity. A manipulated DLL can run through a signed executable, while a scheduled task can launch PowerShell to load harmful code. These techniques make independent testing valuable because a security product must recognize the attack chain, not only a suspicious file.

EDR and SIEM are rarely an either-or architectural choice. EDR provides deep endpoint telemetry and direct host-level response. SIEM correlates security events across the wider environment and preserves evidence for investigations, reporting and compliance.

You already pay for Microsoft 365. Before adding AI security, check which tools, accounts and activities your existing controls protect. Then decide what your IT team or managed service provider will manage. Microsoft AI security includes Purview controls for supported third-party AI discovery, sensitive-data protection and prompt-injection detection. Purview may meet your requirements when its licensed and configured controls cover your workflows.

An employee uploads a spreadsheet to find a sales trend. Another pastes a support conversation into a chatbot to draft a reply. Neither intends to expose business information. Even so, both may send sensitive material outside the systems where your business normally controls it. SMB IT decision-makers need to know what employees share and decide which interactions are acceptable, without building a specialist AI security team.