Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Overview:

Easily scale cyber protection services from a single platform – while efficiently running your MSP business

With Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, you can deliver integrated backup, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, and endpoint management at scale, while preserving your margins and streamlining your business operations with powerful automation capabilities and broad integrations.

Expand your services with advanced protection packs

Add other powerful components to strengthen your services even further with advanced protection packs and unique cyber protection capabilities. Control your costs by paying only for the functionalities your clients need.

Advanced packs include:

Security + XDR

Instead of counting on a costly and complex stack of point solutions, Acronis XDR introduces natively integrated, highly efficient protection built for MSPs:

Natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection and endpoint management
Highly efficient security designed to protect the most vulnerable attack surfaces with AI-guided incident analysis and single-click response
Built for MSPs, including a single agent and console for all services

Security + EDR

Instead of counting on a costly & complex stack of point solutions, Acronis enables MSPs via integration of EDR, endpoint management, and backup & recovery to:

Easily launch a complete security solution, including rapid recovery
Protect against modern threats and readily comply with cyber insurance requirements
Maximize efficiency through a single security platform

Management

Streamline and automate your routine tasks via scripting and promptly close security gaps in clients’ infrastructure through patch management. Gain visibility into your clients’ software assets and data protection to ease daily tracking and planning tasks, and improve clients’ uptime by monitoring disk drives health.

Cyber scripting
Automated patch management
Disk drive health monitor

Automation

Streamline MSP business with a single integrated platform that automates workflows, improves customer interactions, and provides real-time business insights. Enable data-driven decisions and smarter resource utilization, resulting in improved manageability and value-based client relationships.

High-performance automation
Precise forecasting
Next-level profitability

Advanced Backup

Defend clients’ data, even between scheduled backups. Extend backup capabilities to SAP HANA, Oracle DB, MariaDB, MySQL, and application clusters. You can also gain visibility into data-protection statuses across your clients’ infrastructure.

Continuous data protection
Data protection map
Off-host data processing

Disaster Recovery

Get clients back to business in mere minutes when disaster strikes by spinning up their systems in the Acronis Cloud and restoring them anywhere, ensuring immediate data availability. Make disaster recovery painless and increase efficiency with orchestration, runbooks, and automatic failover.

Disaster recovery orchestration
Production failover
Site-to-site VPN

Email Security

Block any email threat, including spam, phishing, business email compromise (BEC), account takeover (ATO), advanced persistent threats (APTs), and zero days in seconds before it reaches end users. Leverage Perception Point’s next-generation technology for lightning-fast detection and easy deployment, configuration, and management.

Anti-phishing and anti-spoofing engines
Anti-evasion and account takeover protection
Next-generation dynamic detection against zero-days

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Prevent leakage of sensitive data from endpoints via more than 70 local and network channels and strengthen compliance with minimal effort and speed to value.

Content-aware data loss prevention
Automatic client-specific DLP policy creation and extension
Pre-build data classifiers for common regulatory frameworks

File Sync and Share

Get a full control over data location, management and privacy with a file sync and share service, including a transaction ledger to enable notarization and eSignature capabilities, across all platforms.

File notarization
Embedded eSignatures
Independent file verification

Why Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Increased Control

Reduce complexity and control the services you deliver for your customers: security, backup, disaster recovery, endpoint management, automation. All with the flick of a switch.

Vendor Consolidation

Managing multiple vendors leads to increased costs, greater risk, and added operational overhead. Consolidate your vendors and increase efficiency of service delivery to your clients.

Centralized Management & Monitoring

Efficiently manage and monitor your clients through a single console, giving you better and more effective control over their cyber protection.

World Class Partner Support

Drive your business with pre-packaged marketing campaigns, training, and other resources, available through the Acronis Partner Portal.

Reduced Training Time

By delivering client services through a single console, you can reduce training time for new technicians by up to 50%, and allow them to focus more time on driving business.

Features:

TThe best backup and recovery enhanced with essential endpoint protection capabilities and security management toolkit for centralized administration and monitoring.

Acronis Active Protection technology

Protect your clients from modern cyberthreats. Our award-winning anti-ransomware technology with built-in automatic recovery from ransomware is now enhanced with AI-based static and behavior anti-malware analysis focused on zero-day threats.

#CyberFit Score

Increase your clients’ security posture by addressing the gaps in their IT environment. Acronis #CyberFit Score assesses and scores a set of security metrics to identify gaps and then provides recommendations for how you can improve their overall security.

Vulnerability assessments

Identify and close the security gaps in your clients systems. You can scan client machines for vulnerabilities to ensure that all applications and operating systems are up-to-date and can’t be exploited by cybercriminals.

Monitoring and reporting

Simplified, at-a-glance reporting helps streamline operations while giving your technicians the insight they need to support your clients. Customize your dashboard’s widgets to view a wide range of reports – enabling you to quickly identify and remediate problems.

Centralized protection plans and group management

Ease administrative efforts with the ability to group manage multiple workloads and centralized protection plans that include all security configurations that can be applied to multiple endpoints across your client’s organization.

Secure file sync and share

Ensure client productivity by offering convenient, secure file sync and share capabilities. Users can securely create, edit, and share content using their own devices with pay-as-you-go pricing.

Notarization

Give clients proof of their data’s authenticity by giving them the ability to notarize any type of file, which generates a certificate with immutable, publicly verifiable proof of the file’s timestamp, integrity, and authenticity. Based on a pay-as-you-go pricing model.

Multi-tier and multi-tenant management

Count on optimal administrative efficiency: create client or partner accounts in seconds, customize unique offerings, and manage quotas, features and administrative privileges using vertical grouping.

Protection for remote workers
Minimize the rising risk of cyberattacks for remote workers with multiple protection capabilities – including prioritized patching and protection for mission-critical telecommute apps (Zoom, WebEx, MS Teams, Slack, Skype, TeamViewer), remote device wipe, and secure desktop remote connectivity.

Multiple backup types
Back up disks/volumes (with all information required for the operating system to boot), individual files or folders, system states (for Microsoft Windows systems), or ESXi configurations.

Flexible backup storage options
Comply with the requirements of different clients with flexible storage options. Back up to Acronis-hosted cloud storage, public clouds such as Google Cloud Storage or Microsoft Azure, your own cloud storage, or local networked storage.

Device and port control
Strengthen data security and prevent leakage of sensitive information via local channels with granular, context-aware controls over user access to locally connected devices and ports, and data operations related to them – even for virtulized sessions.

Clipboard control
Prevent data leakage in its earliest stage by controlling data transfers between application and documents. Allow or block user access to objects of different data types copied to the clipboard, even for redirected BYOD devices in virtualized sessions.

Device control: support of encrypted removable media and screenshot capture access
Eliminate the risk of data leaks with encrypted removable media and screenshot capture control. This enables users to keep sensitive information within their organization – should a removable device get in the wrong hands or prevent screenshots from being copied to the clipboard. Keeping your clients’ sensitive data safe and secure.

Acronis Instant Restore
Cut RTOs to as little as 15 seconds with a built-in capability to restore a system by booting it as a virtual machine directly from the backup, without moving any data.

Acronis Universal Restore
Reduce the time spent on recovery tasks. Acronis Universal Restore makes recovery to dissimilar hardware faster by detecting the machine type and auto-installing appropriate drivers for the hardware.

Google Workspace data protection
Safeguard client data stored in Gmail, Drive (including Team Drives), Contacts, and Calendar by backing it up to ensure fast, reliable recovery.

Complete Microsoft 365 protection
Protect data in Microsoft Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online with comprehensive cloud-to-cloud backup and restore.

Backup encryption
Maintain regulatory compliance and strengthen data protection by securing your backups with AES-256 data encryption for data in transit and at rest, so only you can access the data.

Report scheduling
Increase visibility into information security and simplify IT security auditing with capabilities for sending scheduled reports to listed recipients in a desired format and language.

Deduplication
Minimize storage requirements by detecting data repetition in backups and not storing identical data more than once. Deduplication also reduces network load as duplicate data is not even transferred over the network to the backup storage.

Auto discovery and remote installation
Simplify the onboarding process by installing multiple agents at once – in the cloud and on-premises. With network-based and Active Directory-based discovery, your technicians can easily install and apply protection plans remotely – helping to keep your clients safe.

Predefined protection plans
Protect your clients’ remote and office workers quickly and easily by choosing one of three preconfigured protection plans. These options save you time while ensuring you that your clients’ workloads and environments are protected.

Remote desktop assistance
Enable secure, off-site access to machines to ease remote work for users or provide technical assistance to clients with built-in remote desktop capabilities.

Hardware inventory collection
Save time and effort with an up-to-date hardware inventory. Discover all hardware assets with automatic and on-demand scans. Create hardware inventory reports, browse and filter records by multiple criteria and auto-delete them once a machine or tenant is removed.

Electronic signing
Strengthen process compliance by allowing clients and their third parties to e-sign documents with publicly verifiable proof of the timestamp and authenticity of the signature. Based on pay-as-you-go pricing.

Test failover in isolated network environments
Verify the integrity and efficiency of disaster recovery plans by executing them via the web console in an isolated network environment, without disrupting other processes.

Point-to-site VPN connection
Enable clients to quickly and easily access files from the local site or the cloud. With the Business VPN feature, clients on DR-enabled tenants can establish a secure connection to the corporate network with their personal devices so they can access the data they need.

Firewall policies management
Easily manage firewall policies on your clients’ behalf for their disaster recovery servers through the Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud console. This enables you to simplify the support process and manage outbound and inbound firewall policies.

Straightforward pay-as-you-go pricing
Meet the dynamic needs of your clients with a 100% pay-per-use licensing model and free functionalities. Per-GB and per-seat/per-device licensing types are available.

Integration with PSA and RMM systems
Deliver services instantly using native integrations with ConnectWise (Automate, Manage, Control), Atera, Autotask, Kaseya, cPanel, HostBill, CloudBlue, Plesk, and WHMCS.

Integration with custom systems
Assimilate systems by leveraging a powerful RESTful management API or enable integration via the Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud Application Packaging Standard (APS).

Ransomware-proof backups
Ensure backups cannot be encrypted or deleted by a ransomware attack or malicious users through immutable storage, enabling you to recover quickly to the most recent clean state.

Supported Systems:

Operating systems and environments

Windows

Windows 7 and later
Windows 2008 R2 and later

Linux

Linux with kernel from 2.6.9 to 5.1 and glibc 2.3.4 or later

MacOS

OS X Mavericks 10.9, OS X Yosemite 10.10, OS X El Capitan 10.1, macOS Sierra 10.12, macOS High Sierra 10.13, macOS Mojave 10.14, macOS Catalina 10.15

Mobile

Android 4.1 or later
iOS 8 or later

Microsoft applications

Microsoft SQL Server 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2008 R2, 2008, 2005
Microsoft Exchange Server 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007 Microsoft SharePoint 2013
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2

Hypervisors

VMware vSphere 7.0, 6.7, 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, 4.1
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019, 2016, 2012/2012 R2, 2008/2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012/2012 R2,2008/2008 R2 with Hyper-V
Microsoft Windows 10, 8/8.1 (x64) with Hyper-V
Citrix XenServer 7.6-4.1.5
RHEV 3.6-2.2, RHV 4.1, 4.0
Oracle VM Server 3.4, 3.3, 3.0, Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.x
Nutanix AHV 20180425.x-20160925.x
Linux KVM 5.3 - 8
Proxmox virtual environment 5.3 - 8
Virtuozzo 6.0.10, 6.0.11, 6.0.12, 7.0.13, 7.0.14
Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform 3.5

Frequently Asked Questions:

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is the industry-first solution that unites cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management in one integrated solution – with one agent and a single management console. In addition to greatly reducing the resources needed to operate because it consolidates multiple solutions, it creates easy upsell and cross-sell opportunities for increased profitability.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is easy to deploy with automatic machine discovery and remote agent installation. It reduces the administrative burden with centralized, group, and multi-tenant management and built-in secure remote connections for assistance.

Service providers can track and plan their work much more efficiently with hardware inventory collection, change tracking, vulnerability assessments, and centralized monitoring and reporting via a single pane-of-glass.

It greatly eases daily service providers tasks thanks to integrations with most common RMM and PSA tools, hosting control panels and billing systems, and marketplace providers such as Autotask, ConnectWise (Automate, Manage, Control), Kaseya, Atera, Plesk, cPanel, CloudBlue, and AppDirect.

Moreover, service providers can turn themselves into value-added resellers and sell beyond the end-customer market with reseller management.

Depending on your client, they may have a preference on whether they want to store their data locally or in the cloud. Acronis offers service providers the option to back up to cloud storage hosted by Acronis, Google or Microsoft, their own cloud storage, or local networked storage. Supports more than 20 platforms, including Microsoft SQL clusters, Microsoft Exchange clusters, Oracle DB, and SAP HANA, which are supported in the Backup add-on for Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud.

A cloud-based disaster recovery solution is an offsite recovery option that ensures high-availability of business-critical data by quickly restoring workloads after natural disasters, human error, cyberattacks, or hardware or server failures. Disaster Recovery for Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud provides an all-in-one backup and disaster recovery solution to help service providers minimize complexity while growing their margins.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud includes best-of-breed anti-ransomware technology, strengthened with AI- and behavior-based detection focused on zero-day attacks. It also provides essential data loss prevention through device control.

Both the Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud agent and backups are protected by our comprehensive self-defense technology that prevents tampering.

The Security + XDR add-on extends endpoint protection with full-stack anti-malware to prevent a wider scope of threats, including web-based attacks and exploitation techniques. It increases the speed and accuracy of detection while ensuring zero-false positives. All collaborative applications benefit from prioritized protection, preventing exploitation of their processes. For more aggressive scanning, the anti-malware scans in the Acronis Cloud reduce the load on endpoints while ensuring no threat can reoccur.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Security also eases remediation and makes security investigations less costly by collecting digital forensic evidence and storing them in backups.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud provides vulnerability assessment technology to properly identify security gaps before they pose a serious threat to the IT environment.

The Management add-on helps map the vulnerability assessment process to patch management for prioritized patching based on criticality. It also reduces the service provider’s management burden with patch management automation and fail-safe patching technology, which automatically backs up the system before a patch is applied to enable easy rollback in case the update renders the system unstable.

Documentation:

Download the Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Datasheet (PDF).