Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud: Backup, Security, and IT Operations in One Agent

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is an integrated platform that combines data protection (backup, disaster recovery, SaaS backup) with cybersecurity (EDR/XDR, email security, DLP) and IT operations (patch management, remote management) under a single agent and a single console. Instead of running separate tools for backup, antivirus, email filtering, and patching, one agent handles all of it, and one console shows the whole picture for a device or a whole client environment.

No, it goes well beyond antivirus. Traditional antivirus looks for known malware signatures. Acronis includes an EDR/XDR engine that watches behaviour on the endpoint, correlates it with backup and network telemetry, and can flag or stop activity that looks like ransomware or an active intrusion even when the specific file has never been seen before. Backup, integrity checks, and rollback are built into the same agent, so a detection can trigger an automatic rollback of affected files in some scenarios.

No. Acronis protects endpoints, mailboxes, and data. A firewall protects the network perimeter. We deploy Acronis alongside a properly configured business firewall (Sophos or Meraki), not instead of one. They cover different layers, and a serious security posture needs both.

24/7 security operations center monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response are delivered through Acronis Advanced Security + Endpoint Detection and Response (Acronis MDR), a managed detection and response service backed by Acronis's own SOC analysts, not by Nickel City staff sitting overnight watching a screen. Our team handles deployment, tuning, day-to-day monitoring during business hours, escalation, and acting on the recommendations that come out of Acronis MDR when something needs a decision made on your environment.

Yes. Acronis includes dedicated cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams) and Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive, Shared Drives, Calendar, Contacts), stored independently of the source tenant so a compromised or accidentally-deleted mailbox can still be recovered.

Acronis includes short, recurring training modules and simulated phishing campaigns delivered to your staff, with reporting back to ownership on who completed training and who clicked what in a simulation. It's built to run on autopilot once configured: new hires get enrolled automatically, and repeat training keeps the material current without your team having to chase people down.

The same agent that handles backup and security also inventories installed software and Windows/third-party patches, then applies updates on a schedule we define, with the ability to test on a pilot group before rolling out broadly. This closes a gap we see constantly: businesses running current antivirus but months behind on patches for Windows, browsers, or common applications like Adobe Reader and Java.

A single agent handling backup, security, and patching is generally lighter on system resources than running four or five separate agents from different vendors, each duplicating file-scanning and background processes. We size backup schedules and scan windows around your team's working hours so routine jobs run outside peak use.

No security product can guarantee that, and we won't claim otherwise. What Acronis does is stack multiple defensive layers: behavioural detection that can catch ransomware activity before mass encryption completes, automatic file rollback for affected files where available, and immutable backup copies that ransomware cannot reach or alter, so recovery is possible even if an infection gets through. The goal is to reduce both the odds of a successful attack and the damage if one happens.

Yes. We run the new Acronis deployment in parallel with your existing tools until backups are verified and security policies are tuned, then decommission the old products. There's no gap in coverage during the switch, and we document the whole cutover for your records.