Why acronis hafe security feature like malware and antivirus protection?
As long time Acronis user, i just wonder why Acronis decided at some point to provide security feature's like malware and antivirus protection?
Personally i use Acronis only for backup and recovery and i am not convinced about security feature's.
For my protection i use pretty good software from another vendor, which have like firewall, antivirus , onlinebanking protection and etc.
Acronis is very good for system backup, but otherwise i am not convinced its just somehow ressource cpu and memory waste.
Hello!
From what I understand of the newsletters, the thinking is:
- that backups are not just a protection against hardware/software faults but against cyber attacks. I.e. Restore after a ransomware encrypts your data
- As a consequence malicious software may seek to destroy your backups as well and the infrastructure that manages it.
- Solution: Pair the backup software with malware detection to protect itself. But why not go further at this point and have it be a full blown antimalware software
Personally I'm not yet using a version that has these features, but from a product evolution point it makes sense to me.
EDIT: the relevant newsletter: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/product-101-why-add-anti-malwa…
-- Peter
I think there are two main reasons:
- The Cyber Security market is much bigger than the stand alone backup market. Bundling a backup solution to cyber security may also differentiate Acronis in a crowded cyber security field.
- Cyber Security lends itself much better to a subscription model than stand alone backup does.
Greg
to Greg Moore:
I think and this is my experience as IT consultant, security in most companies always there, but not so critical, having active backups protects data integrity, but does not help to be protected from security problems.
This picture gives good idea about modern security:
This why consider the Acronis move to security not so great, for backups Acronis did helped me alot , i have dedicated local setup to have a working copy of my system and this is more then enough to feel safe. In enterprise people need to concider different threats. I would recommend Acronis as company work on dedicated security solutions, which would deliver expected outcome, but backuptool must stay backup tool first, that we clients want ;)
Alexander,
Your illustration give a very good overview of the layers of security that currently can be applied in an Enterprise environment. For the home user all of these combined are overkill.
Working with your illustration, Acronis has, with the introduction of TI 2021, brought the majority of what your illustration depicts beginning with the Endpoint Security layer encompassing the Application Security and Data Security layer all coupled to the majority of the prevention, policy management, monitoring and response levels of the illustration.
The purpose behind adding Protection to Backup is so that if a system is attacked and files are compromised then the Backup feature can recover the compromised files from previous backup copies prior to attack for the user. This is the edge the product has over standalone products.