Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Friday, July 31, 2026, is System Administrator Appreciation Day, the 27th annual celebration of the people who keep your servers running, your data safe, and your inbox free of “everything...

On June 3, 2026, the European Commission made a notable shift in technology policy, approving a wide-ranging package of measures designed to strengthen the EU’s digital independence and reduce its reliance on non-European technology across semiconductors, cloud computing, and AI.

EU regulations are putting real pressure on how organizations protect and recover their data. If you run Kubernetes workloads in financial services, insurance, healthcare, energy, telco, and public administration, your backup strategy is no longer just an IT concern. It is something regulators and auditors can examine directly. Most Kubernetes environments were set up for operational convenience rather than compliance.

On July 30, Acronis hosted “Acronis Accelerate: The Journey to Autonomous IT,” the second event in its special Acronis Accelerate series. Building on the vision introduced at the previous event in May, in this edition Acronis moved from strategy to action, showing partners how Acronis is turning AI-native cyber platform thinking into real products, live workflows and practical opportunities for growth.

Quick definition Ransomware protection combines two things that work at different points of an attack: endpoint protection software that detects and blocks ransomware before it encrypts data, and backup and disaster recovery solutions that let an organization restore its systems if an attack still gets through.

Most MSPs and IT teams end up supporting more than one compliance framework at once. Each one talks about backups a little differently.

In March 2018, the SamSam ransomware attack on the city of Atlanta became one of the most expensive ransomware incidents ever to hit a US local government. It remains a useful case study in what happens when an organization has no way to detect, stop or recover from ransomware in real time.

AI is changing the economics of managed services, and productivity and intelligence are becoming critical competitive factors. MSPs need practical AI that helps technicians work more productively, make smarter decisions, move faster, reduce manual effort and resolve issues with better context. That is why Acronis is expanding Acronis Cyber Platform with new AI-native capabilities built for the next era of managed services.