Security News

Acronis Patches Privilege Escalation Flaws in Backup, Security Solutions
2020-10-13 13:57

Acronis has released patches for its True Image, Cyber Backup, and Cyber Protect products to address vulnerabilities that could lead to elevation of privileges. Tracked as CVE-2020-10138, the first of the bugs affects Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and Cyber Protect 15 and resides in a privileged service that uses "An OpenSSL component that specifies an OPENSSLDIR variable as a subdirectory within C:jenkins agent."

Amy Luby joins Acronis as Channel Chief Evangelist
2020-04-14 23:15

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, announced that Amy Luby, a respected veteran in the managed service provider and IT channel communities, has joined the company as its Channel Chief Evangelist. In this new role, Luby will help Acronis increase its awareness in the IT channel by demonstrating how incorporating cyber protection into their portfolio helps MSPs grow their business and reduce churn.

Candid Wüest joins Acronis as Vice President of Cyber Protection Research
2020-03-30 22:30

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, announced the appointment of Candid Wüest as Vice President of Cyber Protection Research at Acronis. Wüest will lead accelerated research into the latest trends in the threat landscape and new protection methods designed to continuously enhance the world's most innovative cyber protection solutions.

Acronis cyber protection solutions help orgs face any modern threat to their data
2020-02-28 04:00

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection announced at RSA Conference 2020 several advances in the company's modern cyber protection approach. As a result, an organization's data, applications, and systems are prime targets for cyberattacks - and since modern cyberthreats target backup files and systems, data, applications and systems need to be protected by proven data protection solutions that also integrate cutting-edge security capabilities.

Acronis Acquires 5nine for Its Cloud Management, Security Solutions
2019-12-12 08:38

Backup, security and disaster recovery solutions provider Acronis this week announced that it has acquired 5nine, a company that specializes in cloud management and security solutions. read more

Acronis acquires 5nine to simplify cloud service orchestration for MSPs and IT orgs
2019-12-11 23:30

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, announced the acquisition of 5nine, a global provider of Microsoft Hyper-V and Azure cloud management and security solutions. As part of the...

Acronis’ integrated stack of solutions provides edge, endpoint and data center workloads protection
2019-10-16 02:00

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, announced several new cyber protection solutions – Acronis Cyber Protect, Acronis Cyber Platform and Acronis Cyber Infrastructure – that will...

New investment round sets Acronis valuation to over 1 billion dollars
2019-09-18 22:30

Acronis announced a $147 million investment round led by Goldman Sachs. The investment round sets the valuation of the company to over one billion dollars and enables Acronis to expand its...

Acronis Worth Over $1 Billion After Raising $147 Million
2019-09-18 18:51

Acronis on Wednesday announced that it raised $147 million. With this funding round, led by Goldman Sachs, Acronis becomes a unicorn company with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. read more

Acronis True Image 2020 replicates local backups in the cloud
2019-08-22 02:00

Acronis True Image 2020 enables users to automatically replicate local backups in the cloud – making it the first personal solution to automate the 3-2-1 backup rule that data protection experts...