Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Data Privacy Day, observed each year on January 28, should serve as an important reminder that safeguarding sensitive information is no longer optional. Unfortunately, some consumers and organizations could use the reminder. Data privacy isn’t just a practice for fending off cyberattacks, although that element is important. It is also a critical part of building trust, meeting regulatory requirements and maintaining business continuity.

Picture this: A ransomware alert fires. Your technician opens the EDR console, checks the backup dashboard, logs in to the email security portal, verifies patch status in the RMM tool and correlates alerts across multiple vendor platforms. By the time they track down the root cause, the infection has already spread. This is more than a technical headache; it’s a profitability crisis.

The IT industry uses many overlapping terms that are often misunderstood. Cybersecurity, cyber protection, cyber resilience, cyber defense, cyber intelligence, cyber readiness — the list keeps growing, and so does the confusion. When these concepts are sometimes used interchangeably, organizations risk making the wrong decisions about how they protect systems, data and business operations. While these concepts are related, they are not the same.

When a cyberattack or natural disaster strikes, the challenge isn’t just restoring data quickly — it’s resuming business operations just as fast. That’s where the distinction between disaster recovery (DR) and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) becomes critical for businesses. White paper A practical blueprint for cyber resilience to evolve from prevention to continuity.

As an Acronis user, you understand the importance of safeguarding your digital life. Whether you're a photographer with an ever-growing library of high-resolution images, a videographer churning out terabytes of footage, a content creator managing countless projects or a power user with multiple virtual machines and a home lab, the need for ample, secure cloud storage is constant. You want one reliable place for all your data, without the hassle of juggling multiple tools and accounts.

Would you leave your wallet on the street and hope nobody will touch it? No, you would not. Then why would you risk living in 2026 without having a reliable and efficient computer antivirus protection? Do you know that cyberattacks have quadrupled since COVID-19 hit the world? Ransomware, malware, and phishing attacks are multiplying daily; they have become like a tsunami that destroys everything in its path.

In our increasingly digital world, your laptop is more than just a device — it’s a vault of memories, a workspace and a lifeline to your personal and professional life. Imagine losing years of photos, critical work documents, important research, critical data, or important documents in an instant. This nightmare scenario is precisely why laptop backup software isn’t just a luxury, it’s an absolute necessity.

The global economy is shifting toward total automation. Almost every industry is moving from manual work to automatic or semi-automatic workflows that act proactively or respond on their own, deliver results faster and operate with minimal human intervention. MSPs should be at the center of this transformation. This is the beginning of the autonomous MSP era – service providers that deliver reliable, scalable operations with minimal manual work, very high productivity and consistent quality.

With hyper-distributed workloads and machine-speed threats, the traditional strategy of "securing the perimeter" as a tactic for server and virtual machine (VM) has become obsolete. Today, security must be integrated directly into the workload itself.

The persistence of decades-old technology in industrial settings is a fact of life. Operational technology (OT) environments in factories, power plants and critical infrastructure facilities are studded with industrial PCs running operating systems that the corporate IT world retired years ago.