
Acronis Cloud Security
A unified, hybrid cloud security platform for Microsoft Azure and Hyper-V

Cost-Efficient
Streamline security operations across multiple Hyper-V clusters and Azure instances. Secure all Microsoft Cloud resources from a single console, eliminating the need for multiple cybersecurity tools
Secure
Virtual firewall allows organizations to control all inbound, outbound, and VM-to-VM traffic, inspecting packets before they reach VMs or virtual networks
Controlled
Meet strict security, privacy, and compliance requirements with complete control over access to your VMs, hosts, tenants, and administrative functionality
Overview:
Security for Hybrid Cloud
Acronis Cloud Security provides a unified security platform for Microsoft Cloud, whether it’s on-premises Hyper-V, Azure, or a hybrid deployment. It includes built-in agentless antivirus (AV) and anti-ransomware (ARW) scanning, virtual firewall, intrusion detection (IDS), deep packet inspection, network analytics, detailed audit logs, and support for software-defined networks (SDN).

Cost-Efficient
Streamline security operations across multiple Hyper-V clusters and Azure instances. Secure all Microsoft Cloud resources from a single console, eliminating the need for multiple cybersecurity tools

Secure
Virtual firewall allows organizations to control all inbound, outbound, and VM-to-VM traffic, inspecting packets before they reach VMs or virtual networks

Controlled
Meet strict security, privacy, and compliance requirements with complete control over access to your VMs, hosts, tenants, and administrative functionality
Unified Hybrid Cloud Security
Organizations are moving their services to public cloud and are building more hybrid cloud solutions. With this, security is becoming increasingly complex as administrators may no longer have access to physical hosts and networks. This requires that many computing services be virtualized and managed remotely, including security. While public clouds can offer many security benefits, the generic solutions provided by Microsoft Azure are limited and are not purpose-built for the rapidly-changing security needs of today’s enterprise. Until now, users have had to rely on multiple third-party vendors to obtain end-to-end protection for their virtualized environments.
Simplify the security of your hybrid cloud
Acronis Cloud Security is a comprehensive security solution which addresses all of these challenges by taking the industry’s leading security solution for Hyper-V and expanding it to the public cloud. Acronis Cloud Security can be deployed either as a Windows or web application – standalone, or from Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
Secure any Microsoft cloud deployment
Acronis Cloud Security protects virtual machines (VMs) in any Microsoft Cloud environment. For on-premises Hyper-V installations using the native extensible switch, Acronis Cloud Security protects hosts, clusters, VMs, networks, and virtual disks. For on-premises Hyper-V using SDNv2, Acronis Cloud Security also includes Virtual Router Security Appliance to secure the virtual networks. For Azure installations, Acronis Cloud Security also uses the Virtual Router Security Appliance and protects VMs, networks, and virtual disks, as well as providing management of Azure account properties and subscriptions.
Easy
Easily protect all of your Microsoft Cloud environments: on-premises, cloud, and hybrid
- Easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) provides visibility into all Hyper-V clusters and Azure instances
- Manage security for your entire Microsoft hybrid cloud on-premises and Azure – from a single centralized console with no need for administrators to log in to the Azure Portal
- Create Security Groups to enable automatic protection – push rule changes to an entire group of VMs all at once and automatically apply security to new VMs created in oradded to the group
Secure
Meet strict security, privacy and compliance requirements with complete control over access to your VMs, hosts, tenants, and administrative functionality.
- Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) allows inspection of packet before determining if the packet should be passed on
- Cisco Snort Intrusion Detection System (IDS) rules are integrated into Acronis Cloud Security and identify many types of network attacks, including DoS/DDoS, cross-site scripting, buffer overflows, stealth port scans, and more
- Logging of all events, network traffic, and user actions, including results of changes, enabling easy and simple audit to meet strict security compliance requirements.
Efficient
Streamline security operations across multiple clusters and Azure instances
- Changed Block Tracking (CBT) is used to scan and analyze only the blocks that have changed since the last scan, making scans up to 70X faster
- Built-in Anti-Virus (AV) and Anti-Ransomware (ARW) protection eliminates the need to acquire and deploy separate third-party solutions – scans are performed at the network layer and require no agents so there is no effect on VM performance
- Secure all your Microsoft Cloud resources from a single console, eliminating the need for multiple cybersecurity tools
Controlled
Secure all of your Microsoft Cloud environments: on-premises, cloud, and hybrid
- Granular user and tenant management through rolebased access control (RBAC), separating users and resources, reducing risk of cross-contamination
- Control network bandwidth usage on a per-VM basis, providing Quality of Service (QoS) to prevent any VM from consuming too much and negatively affecting the performance of other VM, services, or users
- Virtual firewall allows organizations to control all inbound, outbound, and VM-to-VM traffic, inspecting packets before they reach VMs or virtual networks
Reliable
Multi-layered cyber protection that can scale to secure even the largest and most-complex Hyper-V and Azure deployments
- Provides cyber protection and security management across multiple version of Hyper-V and Azure working across dissimilar versions
- Management server is installed in a cluster-based configuration, providing highly-available access to the security management console
- Security settings are preserved when virtual machines are shut down and even if the management server were unavailable, providing uninterrupted and continuous cyber protection for Microsoft Cloud
What Differentiates Acronis Cloud Security
Acronis Cloud Security is the only unified hybrid cloud security platform. It provides virtual firewall, agentless antivirus scans, ransomware protection, intrusion detection, and analysis of anomalies for the Microsoft Cloud.

Features:
Acronis Cloud Security Features
Agentless Anitvirus Scans
No need to acquire and deploy separate third-party solutions – scans are performed at the network layer and require no agents so there is no effect on VM performance
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Granular user and tenant management through role-based access control (RBAC), separating users and resources, reducing risk of cross-contamination
Virtual Firewall
Virtual firewall allows organizations to control all inbound, outbound, and VM-to-VM traffic, inspecting packets before they reach VMs or virtual networks
Audit Logs
Logging of all events, network traffic, and user actions, including results of changes, enabling easy and simple audits to meet strict security compliance requirements
Multi-Version Cloud Support
Different versions of Hyper-V, like Windows Server 2012, 2016, and 2019 can be managed alongside Azure, all from one console
Easy, Intuitive Interface
Built-in firewall templates and quick configurability from the same GUI console for the on-premises and cloud editions
Changed Block Tracking (CBT)
Acronis Cloud Security uses Change Block Tracking to scan and analyze only the blocks that have changed since the last scan, making scans up to 70X faster
Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
Integrated intrusion detection detects and identifies multiple types of cyberattacks and raises alerts
Anomaly Analytics
Acronis Cloud Security detects abnormal heuristics and behavior using machine learning to measure resource usage against historic baselines
Automatic Protection
Acronis Cloud Security applies cybersecurity settings to virtual machines as soon as they are created and placed in a security group
Virtualization Security
Built-in network and security monitoring, and user-friendly remote management capabilities eliminate the need for VPNs, remote network access solutions, or complex permission management services
Acronis Cloud Security for Hyper-V Features
Acronis Cloud Security for Hyper-V is a centralized, GUI-based cybersecurity solution for Microsoft Hyper-V. Its light-weight agentless architecture allows for scans with no impact on VM performance, while its granular role-based access controls (RBAC) ensures that each user has only the exact privileges they need.
- SDNv2 Support
Acronis Cloud edition supports Microsoft Software-Defined Networking (SDN) using the Hyper-V extensible switch and virtual router - Web Console or Windows Client
Manage Acronis Cloud Security from the convenience of your web browser or through a console application installed on Windows - Integrate with SCVMM
Use with Microsoft Service Center Virtual Machine Manager to manage virtualization infrastructure and security in the same place

Acronis Cloud Security for Azure Features
Acronis Cloud Security for Azure is the first centralized, GUI-based cybersecurity solution for Microsoft Azure that doesn’t require administrators to log in to the Azure Portal. It offers the same degree of control for security in Azure that Acronis Cloud Security for Hyper-V brings to on-premises deployments.
- Azure Subscription Management
Easily populate Microsoft Azure credentials into the console, allowing you to manage security for Azure VMs without having to log in through the Azure Portal - Flexible Deployment Options
Acronis Cloud Security can be deployed as either a web or Windows application, or from Microsoft Azure Marketplace - Azure Network Logging
Automatically configure resource providers and Azure resource groups on every secure network without needing access to the Azure Portal - Network Quality of Service (QoS)
Set network bandwidth limits for each VM, preventing the VMs from consuming too many network resources - Network Logging
Log all network traffic into, out of, and within your Azure Resource Groups.

Benefits:
- Automatically and immediately protect newly-created VMs with virtual firewall
- Increases operational efficiency and lowers total cost of ownership by eliminating point solutions and management complexity
- Built-in agentless anti-virus (AV) and anti-ransomware (ARW) protections let you secure your data without a negative effect on VM performance
- Control all inbound, outbound, and VMto-VM network traffic with the Acronis Cloud Security virtual firewall performing deep inspection of the packets before delivery
- Integrated Intrusion Detection System (IDS) identifies many attack types including DoS/DDoS, direct access attacks, cross-site scripting, brute force, buffer overflows, stealth port scans, and many more
- Security compliance audits made simple and easy with logging of all network traffic, infrastructure configuration changes, and administrator actions
- Centralized on-premises and Azure security management without the need for administrators to log in to the Azure Portal
Supported Systems:
Supported Environments
- Microsoft Azure
- Hyper-V
- Hyper-V Server 2019
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Hybrid Cloud Configurations
Screenshots:
All the tools. One simple interface
No other solution offers such a range of powerful monitoring and management tools
Documentation:
Download the Acronis Cloud Security Datasheet (PDF).
- Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.
- This product is available as instant electronic delivery upon purchase.
- Acronis Advantage Premier - Offers 24 x 7 support services available via phone, chat, and email. Acronis Advantage Premier customers receive priority support in the event of a business-critical system error (severity A), customers will receive the initial response within one hour. The first year of service is included with the Acronis line of corporate products.