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How Small Businesses Can Outwit Cybercriminals on a Limited Budget

How Small Businesses Can Outwit Cybercriminals on a Limited Budget

Dec 8, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Cybercriminals don't care about the size of your business. They care about the size of the opening you leave them. Small businesses face the same threats as Fortune 500 companies but typically operate with a fraction of the resources. The stakes feel impossibly high when 60% of small businesses in a US Chamber of Commerce survey named cyberattacks as their top concern. However, the news isn't all grim. Data breach costs fell 9% globally last year as organizations improved their speed at spotting and stopping attacks, reports IBM.
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Dharma (CrySiS) Ransomware: Technical Analysis, Context and Mitigation

Dec 5, 2025 By Acronis In Acronis
Dharma, also known as CrySiS, is a long running ransomware family first observed in 2016. It operates as ransomware as a service, where developers lease the malware to affiliates who deploy it. A variant discovered in March 2021 appends the ".biden" extension to encrypted files. This article provides a technical analysis of Dharma, outlines its infection vector, describes its encryption workflow, and offers guidance for mitigation.
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Why Acronis validation for Ignition is critical for OT resilience

Dec 5, 2025 By Lee Pender In Acronis
Technology failures are inevitable in operational technology (OT) environments. While prevention is essential, the ability to recover quickly is what ultimately protects operations. When OT systems fail, production stops and the costs of reduced production, missed deliveries and possible regulatory problems immediately begin to accumulate. Manufacturers, utilities and industrial operators need to be able to get systems up and running again as rapidly as possible after an incident.
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Why Granular Backup And Recovery Are Essential for your DevOps backup strategy

Dec 5, 2025 By Wojciech Andryszek In GitProtect
Every IT stack may look tidy on a diagram. If so, then it’s tempting to assume everything works fine. And yet, systems rarely fail as a whole. Usually, it’s a part or functionality. For instance, anyone who ever untangled a broken workflow in GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or Azure DevOps, or a corrupted field in Jira, knows it too well. And that’s the quiet tension (“to fix one little thing”) inside every modern backup strategy.
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Another Acronis award in 2025: Info-Tech SoftwareReviews Emotional Footprint Award for EDR

Dec 5, 2025 By Lee Pender In Acronis
Acronis once again received recognition from Info-Tech SoftwareReviews, this time in the form of an Emotional Footprint Award for extended detection and response (EDR). The latest accolade highlights Acronis’ growing leadership in cybersecurity and its dedication to delivering solutions that managed service providers (MSPs) love.
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Database as a Service: A Complete DBaaS Implementation Strategy

Dec 4, 2025 By Kevin Jackson In Trilio
A database-as-a-service (DBaaS) product eliminates the complexity of managing database infrastructure while reducing operational costs by up to 40%. Organizations can provision, configure, and scale databases instantly without hardware maintenance or software updates. MariaDB’s recent SkySQL reacquisition highlights the market shift toward flexible deployment models that support self-managed, hybrid, and fully managed environments.
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The complete guide to securing Microsoft 365: Why one platform beats seven tools

Dec 4, 2025 By Lee Pender In Acronis
Microsoft 365 has become the backbone of modern business productivity, with more than 450 million paid seats and over 300 million monthly Teams users. But this widespread adoption comes with a sobering reality: Microsoft 365 is now a prime target for cybercriminals worldwide.
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Your GitLab Data Security: 14 Critical Areas To Address

Dec 3, 2025 By Miłosz Jesis In GitProtect
Modern organizations often use GitLab as a core version control system (VCS), making it one of the most essential systems for DevOps. Given the critical nature of the data stored here, thorough evaluation of risks and implementing data protection best practices are a must. According to the Shared Responsibility Model, GitLab provides security for the underlying infrastructure, while the user’s duty is to keep data protected. More about GitLab’s Shared Responsibility Model.
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Why the threat environment demands a resilience-first approach for manufacturing OT

Dec 3, 2025 By Lee Pender In Acronis
The importance of cyber resilience is very real and growing due to an accelerating threat landscape for manufacturers that shows no signs of slowing down. The SANS Institute’s 2025 State of ICS/OT Cybersecurity Survey reveals troubling trends that should reshape how manufacturers think about operational security.
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Stop Alert Fatigue: How Smart Alert Management Improves IT Response Times

Dec 3, 2025 By Acronis In Acronis
When alerts flood in at 2 a.m., your team shouldn't have to guess whether it's a critical failure or another false alarm. That uncertainty is what causes alert fatigue, a systematic problem that leads to slower response times, team burnout, and missed incidents. Fortunately, there's a solution: By replacing noisy, traditional methods with smart alert management, you can turn a flood of alerts into a stream of actionable insight.
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