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The attack used many ingenious techniques to evade detection by its victims’ IT operations monitoring tools and cybersecurity countermeasures, masquerading its malicious tools, utilities, and network usage as legitimate processes and traffic. The sophistication, long arc of the attack (believed to have begun in October 2019 and only discovered with a bit of luck in December 2020), and the requisite skills, commitment to success, and funding necessary to carry it out classifies it as an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attack that is generally only carried out by hostile national intelligence agencies (in this case, allegedly Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service.)

Considering the modern business demands for always-on, accessible-anywhere IT, anyone responsible for maintaining their organization’s IT infrastructure already has enough to do. Now that so many organizations accelerated their digital transformation in response to the coronavirus pandemic, many of those tasks have gotten more complicated.

Service providers looking for the best Arcserve alternative should consider tested solutions that have already delivered incredible results for others in the IT channel. A recent case study details how Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud helped CloudTech take their service offerings to the next level.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. and SCHAFFHAUSEN, SWITZERLAND, October 21, 2020 – Most business today is conducted at the edge, with employees working from home on vulnerable, often personal, endpoint devices. As the amount of sensitive corporate data accessed by devices out of an organization’s control grows, so does the attack surface that the IT team must safeguard. In response to this complex reality, Acronis today announced the development of an integrated solution for managed service providers (MSPs) designed to enhance the protection of their clients’ Citrix Workspace assets, no matter where they sit.

For a vendor like Acronis, frequent testing by independent security laboratories is one of the most reliable ways to verify our solutions and technologies can counter the most modern threats.

Our work to keep you informed of hazards in the digital landscape now includes Acronis’ YouTube channel because we recently launched a new series of video updates that summarize the latest threats straight from our CPOCs.

Schaffhausen, Switzerland, June 15, 2020 – Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today announced expanded access to Acronis Cyber Protect – its game-changing flagship solution that integrates data protection, cybersecurity, and endpoint management – through a beta that is available to all IT teams.

In today’s digital world, the completeness of your data protection is critical. Users are more aware that traditional backup cannot address the threats and challenges of the modern world. Instead, what is needed is modern cyber protection – a more complete, multilayered approach that protects all environments, systems, and data.

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, 5 May 2020 — Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, announced today the availability of Acronis Cyber Protect, an innovative new cyber protection solution that integrates backup, disaster recovery, next-gen anti-malware, cybersecurity, and endpoint management tools into one service. Acronis Cyber Protect eliminates complexity, improves productivity, and enables managed service providers (MSP) to efficiently make security a focal point of their portfolio – ensuring their business can meet client expectations for data, applications, and systems security and protection.

One widely-used remote desktop service, Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), is susceptible to DLL Side Loading attacks, in which hackers exploit the lack of an integrity check to replace a legitimate Windows dynamic-link library (DLL) with a malicious copy under the same name that is then loaded by the importing process.