Acronis has announced Cyber Protect Localyour solution Native integrated cyber resilience for on-premises IT and operational technology environmentsin sovereign private clouds or isolated from the network. It is designed for organizations that cannot deploy software in the cloud, and combines backup, rapid recovery, cybersecurity and endpoint management functions in a single platform, ensuring regulatory compliance while providing security and data sovereignty.
Cyber Protect Local keeps data securely at the customer’s perimeter. Acronis also notes that the solution is compatible with legacy systems, modern virtualization platforms and hypervisors. These include Windows XP, OT environments and industrial control systems (ICS), Nutanix, Proxmox, VMware and Hyper-V. In this way, the company guarantees complete coverage in mixed infrastructures.
In addition to benefiting from backward compatibility, customers will benefit from one-click self-service recovery and greater workload portability for virtual and hyperconverged environments. They will also have endpoint management and security built in natively. Even with automated discovery of unmanaged devices through DeviceSense.
This, in addition to helping reduce the complexity of certain tools, also improves operational efficiency. On the other hand, P2V, V2V and cross-platform recovery processes are simplified, since it is not necessary to install agents separately with Acronis Cyber Protect Local. This makes it possible to migrate resources while maintaining protection.
This Acronis solution streamlines management, anomaly detection, and vulnerability remediation tasks with AI-powered automation features. Cyber Protect Local allows users to recover data and systems autonomously, improving resiliency, as well as migrating and recovering data between different environments.
With Acronis Cyber Protect Local, organizations will have proactive, active and reactive defense layersspecifically designed for environments where cloud connectivity is limited, or outright prohibited. With this solution, focused on on-premises environments, Acronis protection reaches multi-site businesses and organizations that need secure, disconnected deployment options.
