Hands on: Acronis Cyber Protect 16 Advanced review
This review first appeared in issue 359 PC Professional Edition.
Acronis’ Cyber ​​Protect goes all out for hybrid backup services network security and endpoint protection. Get it all with one subscription and manage it all from a single cloud portal.
Cyber ​​Protect 16 Advanced adopts the standard version and adds Windows patch management, backup and other functions malware Scanning and endpoint detection and remediation (EDR) services that provide event correlation, threat containment, incident investigation, kill chain analysis and endpoint rollback recovery. Ransomware protection Equipped with tamper-proof, immutable backups and a compliance model that stops malicious actors from changing account settings and deleting backups.
There is a lot of activity to track, but cloud portals help by providing customizable dashboards. You have a number of widgets to choose from, including protected systems overview, backup storage usage, vulnerable systems, alerts, detected malware, patch remediation status, and blocked website categories.
Platform support is excellent, including Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, iOS and Android phones, many popular business applications, ten virtualization hosts, and cloud applications such as Microsoft Chapter 365 Google work area. However, agent deployment for workstations and servers is a lengthy affair as they must be downloaded from the portal and installed manually, after which they generate a unique registration code and appear in the portal’s Devices page.
Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) backup requires a dedicated agent to be installed on the host, and now you have two options for VMware systems. You can install the agent VM directly on the host and register it to your cloud account or use the new Windows Remote Agent.
Applying settings is much simpler. You can group similar systems and assign a protection plan that includes your system backup settings, encryption passwords, schedules and all network security settings. For hybrid backups, primary and secondary storage locations can be allocated. We use a local Synology NAS share for fast local backups and Acronis cloud storage for off-site storage.
Synology NAS devices can now be protected via the DSM agent application. It temporarily requires root access to register our Acronis account, and then we can start with cloud Portal, create a protection plan and select the shares we want to back up to the cloud.
In addition to providing fast file and folder recovery services for remote servers and workstations, the portal offers an impressive array of recovery capabilities for Hyper-V and VMware. You can restore an entire virtual machine to its original location as a new virtual machine on the same host or another host. For faster recovery, a temporary virtual machine can be created on the host from a local backup.
In workstation and server plans, you can enable real-time malware scanning, application URL filtering Use up to 44 categories, schedule vulnerability assessments, run patch management remediation tasks and enforce removable device controls. After activating EDR, you can view all incoming alerts from the portal, view a list of all events filtered by severity and mitigation status, and browse the threat investigation page, which provides a kill chain diagram, details of how attacks develop and their interactions and.
Businesses that want all their data backup and cybersecurity in one place will love Acronis Cyber ​​Protect 16 Advanced. Its flexible subscriptions keep costs under control, and EDR services stay one step ahead of cybercriminals and are easy to manage.
