Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

For MSPs serving health care clients, HIPAA compliance is a line item with consequences. Get it wrong and the downside is a six- or seven-figure Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settlement, a corrective action plan and a client base that loses confidence overnight. Get it right and health care becomes one of the highest-margin verticals in the channel.

Backups are often the last line of defense when ransomware reaches business-critical systems. But modern ransomware attacks do not target production data alone. Attackers may also search for backup repositories, compromise backup administrator accounts, change retention policies or delete recovery points before encrypting the live environment. When clean backup copies are no longer available, recovery becomes slower, more expensive and less predictable.

Heath care organizations are under attack. That's not news. But how serious is the threat? Consider these numbers from the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025: Health care organizations need help, and managed service providers (MSPs) can drive revenue and grow their businesses by providing it. But working in health care isn't like working in other industries.

In the March / April 2026 AV-TEST Advanced Threat Protection evaluation, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud once again earned Advanced Approved Endpoint Protection certification with a perfect 35 out of 35 protection score. The result was achieved in testing against advanced ransomware and infostealer attacks on Windows 11, where Acronis successfully defended against all 10 attack scenarios evaluated by AV-TEST.

A practical comparison of the leading OT backup and recovery platforms for plant security leads, OT engineers, industrial CISOs and the system integrators who serve them, plus the OT security platforms most often evaluated alongside them.

Twenty of 27 EU member states had transposed the NIS2 Directive into national law by January 2026 (Wavestone, NIS2 transposition status, 2026). The remaining seven are under formal infringement proceedings from the European Commission. If you run an MSP serving health care clients in the European Union, NIS2 compliance is no longer a regulatory horizon problem. It is the operating environment.

A practitioner reference grounded in IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-82 Rev 3 and the 2025 SANS State of ICS/OT Cybersecurity Survey. For plant security leads, OT engineers and industrial CISOs.

Telecommunications providers already play a central role in the cloud economy. They own the networks businesses use to reach cloud services. They operate data centers, regional points of presence, edge locations, support teams and enterprise client relationships. In many markets, they are also trusted local infrastructure providers for businesses, governments and critical services. For years, much of that infrastructure was used to connect clients to someone else’s cloud. That is starting to change.

VMware migration has become a strategic priority for many managed service providers (MSPs), cloud service providers (CSPs) and hosters. After years of relying on VMware as the foundation for virtualization and hosting services, many providers are reassessing their infrastructure strategy. Licensing changes, cost pressure, uncertainty around partner programs and customer demand for more predictable infrastructure services are pushing providers to evaluate their options.

How OT teams can run safe, OEM-validated patch management on operating systems Microsoft no longer supports. For plant security leads, OT engineers and industrial CISOs. Industrial patch management is the practice of identifying, validating and applying security patches to PC-based assets in industrial environments: HMI workstations, SCADA servers, engineering workstations and historians.

Cyber resilience depends on more than the strength of individual tools. IT teams need backup, recovery, security, endpoint management and automation to work together with shared context, consistent policy enforcement and reduced operational gaps. Acronis Cyber Protect v17 2026 Q2 continues that approach with new capabilities that expand protection coverage, improve security visibility, accelerate recovery and reduce administrative effort from a single integrated platform.

AWS has become a default infrastructure platform for many organizations. It offers scale, flexibility and a broad service portfolio. However, for managed service providers (MSPs) and cloud providers, AWS pricing can be difficult to explain, forecast and package profitably. One of the most important cost factors is AWS data transfer cost. Internet egress, or data leaving AWS for the public internet, is the most familiar example.

Why generic IT endpoint tools fail on the plant floor, what HMI and SCADA workstations actually need and how to build OT-appropriate endpoint protection. For plant security leads, OT engineers and industrial CISOs. OT endpoint protection combines anti-ransomware, antivirus, EDR, vulnerability assessment and patch management deployed on the PC-class endpoints inside an industrial environment, primarily HMI workstations, SCADA servers, engineering workstations and historians.

Attackers have long focused on email and endpoints, but now they are increasingly targeting the identity layer that controls access to those resources. The new approach is subversive and highly effective: By compromising identities, threat actors can gain access to Microsoft 365, SaaS applications, devices and administrative functions without tripping the same alarms that traditional attacks trigger.

Quick answer: What is manufacturing cybersecurity compliance? Manufacturing cybersecurity compliance is the process of aligning a manufacturer’s security controls, documentation, backup practices, incident response workflows and reporting with relevant cybersecurity standards or client requirements. For MSPs, the goal is not to act as legal counsel.

As organizations move more workloads to cloud infrastructure, questions about where data is stored and who controls it are becoming more important. Two terms often appear in these discussions: data residency and data sovereignty. They are related, but they do not mean the same thing. For service providers, understanding the difference is critical. Clients in regulated sectors increasingly ask for infrastructure that can support compliance, jurisdictional control and local hosting requirements.

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is becoming a bigger opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs), cloud service providers (CSPs), hosters and telecommunications providers. Clients still need compute, storage and networking. But many are rethinking where those workloads should run.