RSAC: Acronis Advanced Data Loss Prevention Pack for Cyber Protect Cloud

Acronis International GmbH debuted a Advanced Data Loss Prevention (DLP) pack for Cyber Protect Cloud, a solution that shields MSPs and businesses of all sizes from data leakage.

Notably, the solution does not require months for deployment, and highly skilled teams to maintain it.

Drawing from decades-long experience enabling MSPs in data protection, this expansion resolves the main obstacles hindering the broader adoption of DLP solutions: grueling roll-out and cumbersome ongoing administrative execution.

For years, organizations have struggled to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access via external attacks or insider risks such as IT misconfigurations and human error. Only a handful of large enterprises had the resources to manage the overall complexity, high deployment costs, and more significant obstacles that come with DLP adoption. This is why the global DLP market size is set to exceed $6 billion by 2026, according to Global Industry Analysts Inc.

According to the 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Data Loss Prevention, “Small and midsize organizations often struggle to implement and operate DLP tools. Consulting and managed DLP services can offer a path to value in terms of managing tools, but they cannot replace internal data knowledge and ownership of risk by business units.” ^[1]

“Across the clients we work with daily, fear of their financial records or customer data appearing on Google search keeps them up at night. It keeps us up, too,” said Lawrence Troemel, president, NobleTec. “We want to help them close the gap, but it’s really tough to cost-effectively succeed within short time frames – especially when a new customer comes to us after a major breach.”

Advanced DLP
The integration of behavioral-based DLP capabilities into the company’s Cyber Protect Cloud platform is what extends its ability to deliver unified data protection, cybersecurity and management across systems, data and workloads regardless of their location. It offers a range of cyber protection capabilities that span the NIST cybersecurity framework from identification to recovery to ensure business continuity in the face of cybercriminals, insider risk threats or technology failure.

Early access version of Advanced DLP:

• Protects sensitive data transferred via an array of user and system connections including for example, instant messaging and peripheral devices.

• Uses the same, unified Cyber Protect Cloud console and agent for data visibility and classification.

• Offers out-of-box data classification templates for common regulatory frameworks including GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS.

• Provides continuous monitoring for DLP incidents with multiple policy enforcement options, enabling ongoing automated policy adjustment to business-specifics.

• Includes robust audit and logging capabilities, giving administrators the ability to respond effectively to DLP events and conduct post-breach forensic investigations.

With a single platform and agent enabling this highly accessible form of DLP, both MSPs and businesses will benefit from faster, deployment and time-to-value, while avoiding all the most common threats to data. These same benefits can be accrued by larger organizations needing immediate protection while evaluating more complex and sophisticated DLP programs with multi-year implementation cycles.

“The application of policies and parameters is fast, even the interface for the end user is friendly regarding alerts and exceptions,” said Rafael M Acuña Giraldo, information security specialist and IT support coordinator, Info Comunicaciones S.A.S.

Early Access Program
This Advanced DLP technology is available in an Early Access Program via the firm’s Cyber Protect Cloud. Existing company’s customers and partners using the platform can provision and trial the solution at no cost. In addition, for organizations new to Acronis and its platform, the Cyber Protect Cloud platform with Advanced DLP is also available as a free trial.

First-ever demo at RSAC 2022
As one of the attending partners,the company showcased a demo of its Advanced DLP for Cyber Protect Cloud at the RSA Conference on June 6-9, 2022 in San Francisco, CA.

[1] 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Data Loss Prevention, Published June 28, 2021 – ID G00742074 – 12, By Ravisha Chugh, Andrew Bales.