Data breaches. Ransomware. Identity theft.
We hear these cyberthreat terms so often that they can seem abstract. But the truth is that threats to our digital lives grow more severe each year. With more business, finance, health, and personal activities taking place online every day, understanding cyber risks and how to mitigate them is essential.
In 2021 alone, cybercrime cost the world $6 trillion, putting it on par with the GDP of the world‘s third largest economy. Or on a more granular level – an average data breach now costs large companies $4.35 million. Ransomware demands climbed from $115,000 in 2020 to $190,000 in 2021. And in the U.S., identity theft claims around 20 million victims annually.
So how do we stay safe amid this landscape? Legacy antivirus software and built-in Windows Defenders provide a baseline level of protection. But on their own, they‘re increasingly not enough. These reactive technologies rely on previously identified signatures, struggle to identify sophisticated modern attacks, and lack comprehensive data protection capabilities.
What users need today is modern cyber protection – providing integrated defense across endpoints through advanced security, backup and recovery, and data protection tools.
That‘s exactly what Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office delivers…
The Acronis Cyber Protect Advantage
Acronis Cyber Protect consolidates best-of-breed capabilities into one solution:
- Antivirus and Anti-Malware – Blocks the latest viruses, ransomware, zero-day threats through AI-based detection
- Network Protection – Prevents exploits and stops cyber attacks through network monitoring
- Backups and Recovery – Enables restoration from outages and data loss with full images and file backups
- Anti-Ransomware – Detects ransomware behavior instantly, allowing automatic rollback and recovery
- Secure Remote Access – Provides an intuitive web dashboard to manage protection from anywhere
- Blockchain-based Data Authentication – Cryptographic validation confirms backup integrity, preventing tampering
This integrated defense-in-depth approach delivers a level of security and resilience far beyond patchwork solutions requiring multiple products.
And with a simple, unified management interface, Acronis makes it easy for everyday users to apply enterprise-grade protection.
Ongoing, Evolving Threats Require Proactive Protection
Before exploring the Acronis advantage more, it‘s useful to consider why reactive solutions like signature-based antivirus are no longer sufficient.
Not only have attacks like ransomware and malware become much more sophisticated using evasive techniques to avoid detection – but they originate from incredibly well-funded criminal enterprises. Attackers have vast resources to develop highly targeted, stealthy attacks.
For example, take the 2017 NotPetya attack that caused over $10 billion in damages across shipping, pharmaceutical, and technology companies. NotPetya masqueraded as ransomware but was actually designed to permanently destroy data. Using advanced methods to propagate between networks, it debilitated global supply chain operations.
Or consider the 2021 attack on IT management software vendor Kaseya. The REvil ransomware gang exploited a remote monitoring tool vulnerability to compromise over 1,500 downstream businesses, encrypting networks and demanding $70 million in cryptocurrency.
These and similar attacks highlight increasing social engineering and supply chain compromises driving incidents.
So in the face of rapidly evolving threats, what‘s needed is constant, proactive security – not just reactive signature scanning. And prevention alone isn‘t enough…ongoing vulnerabilities make recovery capabilities equally important.
Acronis‘ Layered Cyber Protection
Acronis embodies the integrated defense and cyber resilience approach required by these modern threats.
The company draws on its 20+ years of experience protecting data and systems to embed enterprise-grade capabilities into an easy-to-use consumer product.
Let‘s examine some of Acronis‘ key prevention and recovery strengths:
Catching Unknown Threats
Acronis detects emerging, evasive threats by analyzing entire attack sequences rather than simply scanning for known signatures. Its behavioral models profile normal system patterns to spot anomalous, potentially malicious activities.
Backed by AI-based malware analysis of 500 million threat samples daily from the Acronis network, these behavior-based models enable identifying advanced threats other tools miss.
Guarding Against Ransomware
Given the explosion of ransomware recently, hardening defenses is crucial.
Acronis provides ransomware prevention through multiple methods. By monitoring system changes associated with data encryption, it can detect ransomware behavior immediately. This enables automatically rolling back files and databases to an unaffected state before significant encryption occurs.
Web filtering blocks access to known malicious sites often used to instigate attacks through drive-by downloads. Patch management alerts also prompt users to update vulnerable software targeted for infiltration.
When ransomware does impact systems, Acronis enables recovery using the backup capabilities we‘ll now explore…
Backup Protection and Recovery
While prevention is ideal, backup systems provide insurance when incidents occur. And indeed given threat uncertainty today, recovery capabilities are equally important to protection measures.
Acronis enables comprehensive data and system backup through full disk imaging along with versioned file and folder backups. Backups run incrementally, meaning only changes since the last backup are added, maximizing efficiency. Local backups can be supplemented with secure encrypted cloud backups for redundancy.
When ransomware or accidents affect files, rolling back to a previous unaffected backup version provides resilient recovery. And Acronis‘ blockchain-based data verification guarantees backup integrity, ensuring you‘re restoring untampered valid data.
For more catastrophic incidents disrupting entire systems, Acronis makes restoring your full environment easy through its disk imaging. No need to reinstall operating systems, programs, and data from scratch – simply recover from a trusted image backup.
Studies show downtime costs businesses around $300,000 per hour – so streamlined recovery enabled by Acronis can literally save enterprises from collapse.
Achieving Comprehensive, Proactive Protection
Through consolidation of integrated backup, anti-malware, web filtering, autonomic ransomware rollback, blockchain-based authentication, and more, Acronis Cyber Protect delivers a unique multi-layered solution.
One that achieves the comprehensive prevention, detection, response and recovery needed against modern cyberthreats…all through an easy-to-use single agent managed via intuitive web console.
By taking this integrated approach aligned to new defensive paradigms rather than outdated solely reactive signatures, Acronis enables robust protection from today‘s sophisticated threats.
Proven in use by over 5 million customers, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office brings enterprise-caliber capabilities to everyday users…providing peace of mind in our increasingly treacherous digital landscape.
I hope this overview has provided deeper insight into modern cyber protection needs and why Acronis Cyber Protect stands distinctly positioned to address those needs! Please share any questions below or reach out for more information on getting Acronis protection set up.
