Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Summary Microsoft 365 is the operational backbone for email, collaboration, and business data, but it does not provide true backup — only availability and short-term retention. Once retention windows expire, deleted or compromised data may be unrecoverable, creating significant risk for organizations. Backup-as-a-service (BaaS) for Microsoft 365 closes this protection gap by delivering independent, point-in-time backups, granular recovery, and long-term retention.

Staying compliant is essential for protecting your organization from unexpected costs and reputational damage. As regulations grow more complex, businesses must ensure consistent adherence to security and data protection standards. With the rise of hybrid and remote work, solutions like Acronis Protected Workspace provide a secure, controlled environment designed to help organizations meet evolving compliance needs with confidence.

Managing today’s complex and distributed IT environments requires more than traditional monitoring tools. MSPs need intelligent and automated systems that can detect issues early, streamline service delivery, and strengthen security across every endpoint they manage. That is where AI RMM software becomes essential. By providing a centralized platform, AI RMM software enables managed service providers to monitor client endpoints and perform remote management efficiently.

Nowadays, businesses of all sizes rely on MSPs and IT service providers for key functions such as cybersecurity, cloud management, and digital transformation, because it is often more cost-effective and efficient than handling these tasks in-house. However, that places enormous pressure on those providers because they are expected to solve a wide range of problems around the clock.

Modern managed service providers (MSPs) need more than disconnected tools to stay efficient and competitive. Growing MSPs and IT service providers are increasingly seeking unified remote monitoring and management (RMM) and professional services automation (PSA) solutions to support their expanding operations and streamline workflows.

If you’re an IT MSP, vulnerability assessment has grown from a river to a flood over the last couple of years. In 2020, there were 18,000 recorded common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). By 2024, that number had more than doubled, eclipsing 40,000. And 2025 is showing no signs of reversing the trend. The rise of vulnerabilities means that manual vulnerability assessment is no longer possible.

Industrial organizations face a stark reality: Downtime is costly, disruptive and cannot be entirely prevented. Whether it’s a cyberattack, hardware failure or simple data corruption, operational technology (OT) environments must be ready to recover quickly. In a recent podcast, Stephen Nichols, Country Manager for Canada at Acronis, shared his perspective on why rapid recovery is now a fundamental pillar of industrial resilience and how modern backup strategies are evolving to meet the challenge.

It’s evident that the cybersecurity industry took notice of the remarkable growth and maturation Acronis achieved in 2025. Through comprehensive analyst evaluations, rigorous third-party testing and user reviews, leading organizations across the cybersecurity spectrum have validated the development of Acronis as a comprehensive leader in cyber protection. A complete list of analyst reports and user review recognitions, as well as test results Acronis accumulated in 2025, includes.

This new guidance amounts to leading Western governments telling OT users (industrial businesses in manufacturing, energy, power, logistics, critical infrastructure, and the like), “Yes, you can use AI in OT, but only if you’re prepared for it to fail and you can recover quickly when it does.”

The systems that grow, process and deliver our food operate in a world most of us never see: legacy equipment, air-gapped networks and decades-old operating systems quietly controlling the machinery that keeps supply chains moving. What happens when modern cyber threats collide with this aging infrastructure? The answer is more urgent than most people realize.