{"id":11638,"date":"2020-09-14T15:41:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T11:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=11638"},"modified":"2025-04-18T00:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:21:33","slug":"acronis-reveals-global-cyber-protection-needs-upgradation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/acronis-reveals-global-cyber-protection-needs-upgradation\/","title":{"rendered":"Acronis survey reveals global cyberprotection needs upgradation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zw-paragraph\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;ff&quot;:&quot;Carlito,Calibri&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:12,&quot;bgc&quot;:&quot;rgb(255,255,255)&quot;}\" data-margin-bottom=\"6.0pt\" data-doc-id=\"2858132000000168011\" data-doc-type=\"writer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acronis.com\/en-us\/company\/\">Acronis<\/a> announced the release of Acronis Cyber Protect 15, which integrates backup, disaster recovery, next-generation antimalware, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/CyberSecurity\/\">cybersecurity<\/a>, and endpoint management tools into a single solution. This one-of-a-kind integration eliminates the complexity of ensuring an organization\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/CyberSecurity\/\">cybersecurity<\/a>, while improving its data recovery posture and enabling greater productivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zw-paragraph\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;ff&quot;:&quot;Carlito,Calibri&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:12}\" data-margin-bottom=\"6.0pt\">The new product comes at a time when <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/Businesses\/\">businesses<\/a> are struggling to safeguard their data and infrastructure against the risks of the new remote work landscape. The just-released Acronis Cyber Readiness Report, which\u00a0surveyed 3,400 global companies and remote workers in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, revealed that 92% of the companies\u00a0surveyed say they\u2019ve adopted new technologies to enable remote work, including workplace collaboration tools, privacy solutions, and endpoint <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/CyberSecurity\/\">cybersecurity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zw-paragraph\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;ff&quot;:&quot;Carlito,Calibri&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:12}\" data-margin-bottom=\"6.0pt\">The challenge for organizations is that managing the protection of data across the company network and all of those new devices using a stack of different solutions is expensive, time-consuming, and complicated. The lack of integration also creates gaps in the organization\u2019s defenses that cybercriminals are exploiting.<\/p>\n<p data-textformat=\"{&quot;ff&quot;:&quot;Carlito,Calibri&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:12}\" data-margin-bottom=\"6.0pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11641 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Infographics_Cyber_Readyness_report_2020_2009089.jpg\" alt=\"Infographics_Cyber_Readyness_report_2020-Acronis Cyber Protect-techxmedia\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Infographics_Cyber_Readyness_report_2020_2009089.jpg 800w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Infographics_Cyber_Readyness_report_2020_2009089-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Infographics_Cyber_Readyness_report_2020_2009089-768x442.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Acronis Cyber Readiness Report\u00a0reveals that as hackers target remote workers, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/phishing\/\">phishing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/DDoS\/\">distributed denial of service<\/a> (DDoS), and videoconferencing attacks are the most\u00a0common tactics used.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"zw-list zw-paragraph heading105\" data-header=\"105\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;ff&quot;:&quot;Carlito,Calibri&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:12}\" data-margin-left=\"0.0in\" data-text-indent=\"-0.25in\" data-padding-left=\"0.25in\" data-margin-bottom=\"6.0pt\" data-hd-info=\"105\" data-list-id=\"10\" data-list-info=\"{&quot;id&quot;:10,&quot;l&quot;:0}\"><strong>39% of the companies experienced a\u00a0videoconferencing attack in the past three months<\/strong>\u00a0as workers rely on apps like Zoom, Cisco Webex, and Microsoft Teams.\u00a0Cisco recently revealed a vulnerability in its <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/WebEx\/\">Webex<\/a> app that could allow attackers to open, read, and steal potentially valuable or damaging content.<\/li>\n<li data-header=\"105\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;ff&quot;:&quot;Carlito,Calibri&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:12}\" data-margin-left=\"0.0in\" data-text-indent=\"-0.25in\" data-padding-left=\"0.25in\" data-margin-bottom=\"6.0pt\" data-hd-info=\"105\" data-list-id=\"10\" data-list-info=\"{&quot;id&quot;:10,&quot;l&quot;:0}\"><span data-doc-id=\"2858132000000168011\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">Malware attacks<\/span> such as ransomware also have increased during the pandemic, with <strong>31% of companies reporting daily cyberattacks<\/strong> and half (50%) being targeted at least once a week, including in July when a leading manufacturer of GPS technologies allegedly <strong>paid $10 million in a WastedLocker ransomware attack<\/strong>. Acronis Cyber Protection Operating Centers (CPOCs) found that <strong>35% of\u00a0customer endpoints were exposed to malware attacks that\u00a0were still getting through<\/strong>\u00a0before the deployment of Acronis Cyber Protect.<\/li>\n<li data-header=\"105\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;ff&quot;:&quot;Carlito,Calibri&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:12}\" data-margin-left=\"0.0in\" data-text-indent=\"-0.25in\" data-padding-left=\"0.25in\" data-margin-bottom=\"6.0pt\" data-hd-info=\"105\" data-list-id=\"10\" data-list-info=\"{&quot;id&quot;:10,&quot;l&quot;:0}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acronis.com\/en-us\/blog\/posts\/how-avoid-coronavirus-phishing-scams\" data-doc-id=\"2858132000000168011\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">Phishing attacks<\/a> are occurring at historic levels, which is not surprising since the report found <strong>only 2% of companies consider URL filtering<\/strong> when evaluating a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/CyberSecurity\/\">cybersecurity<\/a> solution. That oversight leaves remote workers vulnerable to <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/phishing\/\">phishing<\/a> sites \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/Acronis\/\">Acronis<\/a> CPOCs discovered that<strong> approximately 10% of users clicked on malicious websites<\/strong> in May, June, and July.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-doc-id=\"2858132000000168011\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">The<\/span>se <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/Acronis\/\">Acronis<\/a> findings\u00a0and external research illustrate why organizations need a cyber protection solution that reduces complexity and improves security to support remote work environments, and the solution must be cost-effective to address the scale of remote workers.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The modern cyber landscape demands modern protection<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span data-doc-id=\"2858132000000168011\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/cyberthreat\/\">cyberthreat<\/a> landscape has changed dramatically during the past few years, and in the last six months in particular. Traditional stand-alone antivirus and backup solutions are unable to protect against modern <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/cyberthreat\/\">cyberthreats<\/a>,\u201d <\/span>said Serguei \u201cSB\u201d Beloussov, founder and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/Acronis\/\">Acronis<\/a>. \u201cOrganizations that modernize their stack with integrated data protection and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/CyberSecurity\/\">cybersecurity<\/a> not only gain greater security, they lower their costs and improve efficiencies.\u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/Automation\/\">automation<\/a> and streamlined management of Acronis Cyber Protect 15 means any <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/Businesses\/\">business<\/a> can decrease their risk, avoid downtime, and increase their IT team\u2019s productivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-doc-id=\"2858132000000168011\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">With Acronis Cyber Protect 15\u2019s <\/span>unique integration of data protection and next-generation <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/CyberSecurity\/\">cybersecurity<\/a> capabilities \u2013 including AI-based behavioral detection that stops zero-day attacks, URL filtering, vulnerability assessments, videoconference protection, and automated patch management \u2013\u00a0organizations protect against modern <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/cyberthreat\/\">cyberthreats\u00a0<\/a>while ensuring they can recover their data and systems faster than any other solution.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-doc-id=\"2858132000000168011\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">10% of users might click on malicious links that lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/phishing\/\">phishing attacks<\/a>, <\/span>but the URL filtering in <strong>Acronis Cyber Protect blocked all of those sites<\/strong> \u2013 protecting the users, their devices, and their company\u2019s data.<\/li>\n<li><span data-doc-id=\"2858132000000168011\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">V<\/span>ideoconferencing protection prevents the exploitation of apps like Zoom, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/WebEx\/\">Webex<\/a>, and Microsoft Teams. In fact, <strong>Acronis Cyber Protect<\/strong>\u00a0prevented code execution exploits in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/WebEx\/\">Webex<\/a> before it was patched by Cisco.<\/li>\n<li><span data-doc-id=\"2858132000000168011\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">T<\/span>esting by independent <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/CyberSecurity\/\">cybersecurity<\/a> labs such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acronis.com\/en-us\/blog\/posts\/100-detection-rate-zero-false-alarms-independent-lab-tests-acronis-cyber-protect-cloud\">AV-Test<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acronis.com\/en-us\/blog\/posts\/acronis-cyber-protect-cloud-earns-vb100-certification\">Virus Bulletin<\/a> shows that Acronis Cyber Protect\u2019s\u00a0antimalware\u00a0<strong>detects 100% of malware attacks with zero false positives<\/strong>.\u00a0If the GPS manufacturer had Acronis Cyber Protect, it would never have paid a $10 million ransom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-doc-id=\"2858132000000168011\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">Based on the current cyberattack rate, t<\/span>he unique integration of backup and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/CyberSecurity\/\">cybersecurity<\/a> enables Acronis Cyber Protect to <strong>prevent an estimated $150 million in direct losses<\/strong> for its customers each year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11642 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Cyber_Readiness_Report_Infographic.jpg\" alt=\"Cyber_Readiness_Report_Infographic-Acronis Cyber Protect-techxmedia\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Cyber_Readiness_Report_Infographic.jpg 800w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Cyber_Readiness_Report_Infographic-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Cyber_Readiness_Report_Infographic-768x442.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><span data-doc-id=\"2858132000000168011\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">The future of protection<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"zw-paragraph heading9162788\" data-tabpoints=\"[{&quot;leader&quot;:0,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:0,&quot;point&quot;:&quot;0.812in&quot;}]\" data-header=\"9162788\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;ff&quot;:&quot;Carlito,Calibri&quot;}\" data-margin-bottom=\"6.0pt\" data-margin-top=\"0.0pt\" data-hd-info=\"9162788\" data-tab-info=\"[{&quot;leader&quot;:0,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:0,&quot;point&quot;:&quot;0.812in&quot;}]\" data-doc-id=\"2858132000000168011\" data-doc-type=\"writer\">The comprehensive cyber protection delivered by Acronis Cyber Protect will continue to be vital in the post-pandemic landscape.\u00a0With 88% of the remote workers surveyed by <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/Acronis\/\">Acronis<\/a> expecting to work from home to some extent even after the pandemic ends, ensuring their protection and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/CyberSecurity\/\">cybersecurity<\/a> will require the kind of integration and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/Automation\/\">automation<\/a> only found in Acronis Cyber Protect 15.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits to <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/Businesses\/\">businesses<\/a> are already being lauded by organizations who have tried Acronis Cyber Protect 15. HomeBuys.com\u2019s Network Administrator Jorge Alexandres noted that \u201cBeing able to bring together backup and restore, with remote desktop, patch management, and antimalware into a single tool provides a lot of value. Instead of using two or three tools, having a single tool with a single console is the way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The challenge for organizations is that managing the protection of data across the company network and all of those new devices using a stack of different solutions is expensive, time-consuming, and complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1595,9621],"tags":[2980,3367,3365,525,1315,3366,3368,417,2886,1889,3369,1223],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-11638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-emerging-technologies","tag-acronis","tag-acronis-cyber-protection","tag-antimalware","tag-automation","tag-businesses","tag-cisco-webex","tag-cpocs","tag-ddos","tag-phishing-attacks","tag-remote-work","tag-serguei-sb-beloussov","tag-webex"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Acronis-Cyber-Protect_key-visual-featured.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Rabab","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11638"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=11638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}