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Acronis Announces Cyber Protect Local to Deliver Unified Cyber Resilience for On-Premises and Sovereign IT/OT Environments

Posted in Commentary with tags on October 29, 2025 by itnerd

 Acronis today announced the launch of Acronis Cyber Protect Local, a solution delivering natively integrated cyber resilience for on-premises, sovereign private cloud, and air-gapped IT and operational technology (OT) environments. Designed for organizations where cloud deployment is not an option, the solution combines robust backup, rapid recovery, cybersecurity, and endpoint management in a single platform, enabling agile, resilient, and compliant IT and OT operations while reducing costs and operational complexity.

Built on Acronis’ proven cyber protection expertise, Acronis Cyber Protect Local keeps the data securely within the customer’s perimeter, ensuring full data sovereignty and regulatory compliance. The solution supports legacy systems and modern hypervisors including Windows XP, OT/ICS environments, Nutanix, Proxmox, VMware, and Hyper-V to ensure complete coverage across mixed infrastructures. Customers benefit from strong backward compatibility, one-click self-service recovery, and expanded workload portability for virtual and hyper-converged environments.

Users also gain the advantage of natively integrated endpoint security and management, including automated discovery of unmanaged devices via Device Sense™, helping reduce tooling complexity while enhancing operational efficiency. P2V, V2V, and cross-platform recovery are simplified, with no need for separate agent installations, enabling organizations to migrate workloads seamlessly while maintaining protection.

By consolidating multiple tools into a single platform, Acronis Cyber Protect Local reduces complexity and significantly improves IT professional productivity while enhancing operational efficiency and reducing the cost of ownership. AI-driven automation, anomaly detection, self-service recovery, cross-platform migration, and SIEM integration enable both IT and non-IT users to respond rapidly to threats and disruptions.

Key capabilities include:

  • Unified cyber resilience: Backup, recovery, cybersecurity, and endpoint management in a single agent and single console.
  • Data sovereignty: Keeps management and data within customer perimeter to ensure compliance.
  • Comprehensive workload support: Covers legacy OS, OT/ICS, and modern virtualization platforms for complete protection across hybrid and mixed environments.
  • AI-driven automation: Streamlines management, anomaly detection, and remediation.
  • Self-service recovery: Empowers users to recover data and systems independently, improving resilience.
  • Cross-platform agility: Enables seamless migration and recovery across diverse environments.

With Acronis Cyber Protect Local, organizations gain proactive, active, and reactive defense layers purpose-built for environments where cloud connectivity is limited or prohibited. This local-first innovation extends the reach of Acronis’ global cyber protection technology to enterprises, industrial organizations, and multi-site entities that require secure, disconnected deployment options.

To learn more about how Acronis Cyber Protect Local protects on-premise environments, visit the blog: https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/built-for-control-acronis-cyber-protect-local-simplifies-sovereignty-and-compliance/

For more information about Acronis Cyber Protect Local, visit: https://www.acronis.com/en/products/cyber-protect/licensing/local

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Acronis and Intel Partner to Deliver Efficient, AI-Driven Threat Detection for Endpoint Devices

Posted in Commentary with tags , on August 27, 2025 by itnerd

 Acronis and Intel, today announced Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud’s availability with AI PCs powered by Intel Core Ultra processors, a new collaboration that brings advanced and automated threat detection and remediation to endpoint devices without compromising performance. By integrating Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Intel technology, managed service providers (MSPs), managed security service providers (MSSPs), and enterprise customers experience faster, more efficient cybersecurity, ideal for today’s resource-constrained users.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud uses AI to detect and remediate threats in real-time at the endpoint, analyzing behavioral patterns to uncover advanced attacks, including ransomware, zero-day exploits, and fileless malware that traditional tools might miss. On Intel® Core™ Ultra-powered devices, the solution becomes even more efficient by leveraging OpenVINO™ to offload heavy AI tasks such as behavioral heuristics and anomaly scoring to the processor’s neural processing unit (NPU). Offloading AI-driven behavioral detection from the CPU to the NPU within Intel Core Ultra processors reduces CPU load by up to 92%, based on internal performance testing. This optimizes performance, extends battery life, and keeps systems running smoothly.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, a SaaS-based, multi-tenant platform, delivers award-winning protection from cyberthreats, including next-generation anti-malware, email security, data loss prevention (DLP), and endpoint and extended detection and response (EDR /XDR). Security professionals who use Acronis spend less time juggling tools thanks to its natively integrated solution that integrates cybersecurity, endpoint and posture management, data protection, automated backups, and disaster recovery. Acronis also proudly aligns with NIST cybersecurity functions, helping users identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover more effectively.

Traditional anti-malware software often struggles to detect modern threats and can drain system resources, leading to slowdowns, increased support tickets, and lost productivity. Fragmented security solutions further strain overburdened IT teams while increasing operational complexity. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud solves this with natively integrated cyber protection that minimizes impact on system performance. And with Intel technology, it runs even more efficiently.

To learn more about AI PCs powered by Intel and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, visit: https://solutions.acronis.com/en-us/integrations/ai-pcs-powered-by-intel-and-acronis-cyber-protect-cloud/

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Acronis Report Finds AI-Powered Phishing and Social Engineering Fueling Surge in Ransomware

Posted in Commentary with tags on August 20, 2025 by itnerd

Acronis today released the findings of the Acronis Cyberthreats Report H1 2025, detailing the most popular threat vectors, active threat groups, and targeted industries in the first half of 2025. Ransomware remains the major threat for large and medium-sized businesses, with new groups increasingly leveraging AI to automate their activities – phishing accounted for 25% of all attacks and 52% of attacks targeting MSPs, a 22% increase compared to 1H 2024.

The biannual report covers the global threat landscape as encountered by the Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) and Acronis sensors on Windows endpoints from January through June 2025. Based on signals from over 1,000,000 unique endpoints distributed around the world, the report also incorporates statistics focused on threats targeting Windows operating systems, given their prevalence as compared to macOS and Linux.

Key Findings of the Acronis Cyberthreats Report H1 2025 include:

  • Ransomware is Still Top-Dog: The number of publicly known ransomware victims increased nearly 70% over the measured time period, as compared to both 2023 and 2024. Cl0p, Akira, and Qlin are the most active ransomware gangs.
  • AI Powering Surge in Social Engineering: Ransomware gangs are increasingly utilizing AI, and this is reflected in their chosen threat vectors – social engineering and BEC attacks increased from 20% to 25.6% in January 2025 through May 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, likely due to the growth in AI use for crafting convincing impersonations. Malware was discovered in 1.47% of Microsoft 365 email backups.
  • MSPs Bombarded by Phishing and BEC Attacks: While the overall number of attacks targeting MSPs fell over the measured time period, the nature of attacks changed significantly; phishing accounted for 52% of all attacks targeting MSPs as compared to 30% in 2024, while Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks all but vanished.
  • Not All Phishing Attacks are Created Equal: While phishing is the weapon of choice for attackers, they are increasingly focusing on collaboration apps, eschewing simple BEC campaigns. Almost 25% of the attacks in collaboration apps leveraged AI-generated deepfakes or automated exploits.
  • Manufacturers in the Crosshairs: Manufacturing was ransomware gangs’ most targeted industry, representing 15% of all recorded cases in Q1 2025. Retail, food and drink (12%) and telcos and media (10%) were also popular targets.

For more information, download a copy of the full Acronis H1 2025 Cyberthreats Report here: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/resource-center/resource/acronis-cyberthreats-report-h1-2025

To learn more about the report and its findings, visit the Acronis blog here: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/acronis-cyberthreats-report-h1-2025-some-good-news-and-a-lot-of-bad-news

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