Most organizations run backup and endpoint security as two separate products, from two vendors, with two consoles and two sets of alerts that nobody correlates. Acronis Cyber Protect puts both in one agent. Arrosoft deploys it, runs it and triages what it finds, so you get the consolidation benefit without adding another console your team has to learn.

What Acronis Cyber Protect does

Acronis Cyber Protect combines backup, anti-malware, endpoint detection and response, patch management and disaster recovery in a single agent and a single console.

The backup side covers physical servers, virtual machines, workstations, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, with image-level and file-level recovery. The security side adds behavior-based anti-malware, vulnerability assessment, patch deployment and EDR. Both run from the same management plane, which is what makes the capabilities below possible at all.

Backup and security in one agent

The single-agent design is Acronis’s actual argument, and it is worth stating plainly rather than treating as a feature bullet.

When backup and endpoint security are separate products, three problems follow. The agents compete for resources and occasionally conflict, so the security tool quarantines the backup process or the backup tool’s disk activity triggers a detection. Nobody correlates the two signals, so a ransomware detection on an endpoint does not automatically trigger a check of that endpoint’s backups. And you pay for, deploy and maintain two agents on every machine.

One agent removes all three. More usefully, integration makes specific things possible that two separate products cannot do at all.

Fail-safe patching

A bad patch can leave a machine unusable, and patch rollback is slow and unreliable. Because the same agent handles both jobs, Acronis takes an image backup of the machine immediately before installing a patch, so reverting is a restore rather than a repair. This is the clearest example of why the integration is worth something.

Safe recovery

Backups can contain the malware that caused the incident. Acronis updates anti-malware definitions and scans the backup image during the restore, so you recover a clean system instead of reinfecting yourself from your own backup. Without integration this is a manual, two-tool process that most teams skip under pressure.

Rapid rollback after an attack

When the anti-malware component detects ransomware, the backup component can recover the affected files from the last known-clean copy as one action on one console, rather than as a cross-team incident. This is the capability worth buying Acronis for, and the one most often left unconfigured.

Who it suits

Organizations consolidating backup and endpoint security

If you run one vendor for backup and another for endpoint protection, and the renewal dates are close together, that is the moment consolidation is cheapest to execute.

Distributed estates with thin local IT

Branch offices, retail sites and remote workers where there is no local technical staff. One agent handling both protection and recovery, managed centrally, reduces what has to happen on site to almost nothing.

Service providers managing many client environments

The console is multi-tenant, with per-client policy templates and consolidated billing, which makes it efficient to run many small environments from one place. If you deliver IT services to other organizations, this is the operational fit Acronis is built for.

What we deploy

Acronis is licensed as a base platform with advanced packs added on top. You buy only the packs you need, which is the main reason the cost scales sensibly for smaller estates.

Cyber Protect Cloud

The base platform: backup and recovery, essential anti-malware, URL filtering, vulnerability assessment and device discovery, from a single agent and console.

Advanced Backup

Continuous data protection for named critical applications, so work in progress between scheduled backups is not lost. Adds broader workload coverage and scheduled backup reporting.

Advanced Security and XDR

Endpoint detection and response with attack-chain visualization, so an alert arrives with the sequence of events that produced it rather than as an isolated signal. XDR extends the same correlation across email, identity and Microsoft 365 apps.

Advanced Management

Patch management across operating systems and third-party applications, hard-drive health monitoring, and scripted automation. Unpatched third-party software is a more common entry point than unpatched operating systems, and it is the part most organizations do not track.

Advanced Disaster Recovery

Failover of protected workloads into Acronis cloud infrastructure with site-to-site connectivity, and recovery to similar or dissimilar hardware.

Advanced Data Loss Prevention

Content-aware controls over how data leaves the business, across peripheral devices and network channels, with policies built from observed behavior rather than written from scratch.

Advanced Email Security

Layered filtering that inspects attachments and links before delivery, aimed at phishing, business email compromise and zero-day attachments that conventional filters pass.

Acronis MDR

Managed detection and response, with a security operations center monitoring and triaging around the clock rather than handing alerts back to you to interpret. See also our Managed Detection and Response service.

Coverage and storage

Acronis protects servers, workstations and mobile devices across Windows, Linux and macOS; VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, KVM, XenServer and other hypervisors; workloads in AWS and Azure; databases including SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, MySQL and MariaDB; and Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.

Backups can be written to local disk, network shares, Acronis cloud storage, Google Cloud or Azure, and to other S3-compatible object storage, including Wasabi, which we resell and manage alongside the backup platform.

What Arrosoft manages for you

Deployment and tenant configuration, daily backup monitoring with failure remediation, EDR alert triage, patch approval and deployment scheduling, restore testing and service reporting.

What is included varies by service level, and your agreement sets which applies to you. The same service tiers cover Acronis as the other platforms we manage — see Managed Backup Services and BaaS.

The part worth emphasizing is alert triage. Acronis will generate security alerts; an unmanaged deployment generates them into an inbox nobody reads.

Acronis or Veeam

We sell both, so the honest comparison.

Acronis suits organizations that want backup and endpoint security from one vendor, distributed estates with limited local IT, service providers managing many small tenants, and teams that value a single console over best-of-breed depth in each category.

Veeam suits predominantly virtualized estates, organizations that already have an endpoint security vendor they intend to keep, and teams that want the deepest virtual machine protection available rather than broad coverage.

The question we ask first is whether you already have endpoint security you intend to keep. If you do, Acronis’s main advantage does not apply to you and Veeam is usually the better backup product. If you are buying both at once, or your endpoint contract is up for renewal, the consolidation argument is real.

Certification and compliance

Acronis holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2, with HIPAA, GDPR and PCI DSS compliance and a FIPS 140-2 certified cryptographic library. The anti-malware engine is certified by AV-Test, ICSA Labs and OPSWAT, and approved by AV-Comparatives as a business security product.

Frequently asked questions

Should Acronis replace our existing antivirus? If you are buying Acronis for the integration, yes, and you should plan for it rather than run both. A second endpoint agent reintroduces the conflicts the single agent exists to remove, and the capabilities that justify the choice — fail-safe patching, safe recovery, rapid rollback — only work when the anti-malware component is actually in the path. If you have an endpoint product you are committed to keeping, that is a sign Acronis is the wrong fit and Veeam is the better backup choice. Where it does replace your existing tool, migration is part of our deployment.

Does Acronis back up Microsoft 365? Yes, including Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams. There is an action you need to take. Microsoft began phasing out Exchange Web Services on 1 October 2026 and removes it permanently on 1 April 2027. Acronis has moved Microsoft 365 mailbox protection to the Microsoft Graph API, but the switch is not automatic: a Microsoft 365 Global Administrator must approve the new permissions in the Acronis console, and until they do, mailbox backups fail. If you are an Acronis customer and have not done this, it is worth checking today. We handle it as part of the managed service.

Can we keep our own Acronis licenses? Yes. Under our managed service tiers you own the licenses and we operate the environment. Under Backup as a Service, Arrosoft provides the licensing, infrastructure and operation together.

Is there a trial? Acronis runs trials on individual packages from time to time rather than as a standing offer, so what is available depends on when you ask. Get in touch and we will tell you what is running and whether it covers the packages you are considering.

What does the managed service cost? It is quoted rather than listed, because it turns on two things: how many endpoints you need protected, and the service level you agree to — coverage hours, response commitments, and how much we take on versus what your team keeps. Tell us the endpoint count and what you want us responsible for, and we will put a number against it.