Acronis has announced the launch of Acronis Cyber Protect Local, a solution that delivers natively integrated cyber resilience for on-premises, sovereign private cloud, and network-isolated IT and operational technology (OT) environments. Designed for organizations where cloud software deployment is not feasible, this innovative Acronis solution combines reliable backup, rapid recovery, cybersecurity, and endpoint management capabilities into a single platform, enabling agile, resilient, and compliant IT and OT operations while reducing costs and operational complexity.
Built on Acronis’ renowned expertise in cybersecurity, Acronis Cyber Protect Local keeps data secure within the customer’s perimeter, ensuring regulatory compliance and full data sovereignty. The solution is compatible with legacy systems and modern hypervisors, including Windows XP, OT and Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Nutanix, Proxmox, VMware, and Hyper-V, to guarantee comprehensive coverage across mixed infrastructures. Customers benefit from strong backward compatibility, one-click self-service recovery, and enhanced workload portability for virtual and hyperconverged environments.
Users also benefit from natively integrated endpoint security and management, including automated discovery of unmanaged devices via Device Sense™. This not only reduces the complexity of using multiple tools but also improves operational efficiency. P2V, V2V, and cross-platform recovery processes are simplified, eliminating the need to install separate agents, enabling organizations to seamlessly migrate computing resources while remaining protected at all times.
“Despite the widespread adoption of cloud-based applications, there are critical infrastructures that require on-premises deployment and protection,” said Gaidar Magdanurov, president of Acronis. “The systems that ensure our access to water, electricity, technology, healthcare, and transportation are vulnerable targets for cyberattacks because they rely heavily on outdated software and hardware. By 2025, more than 50% of OT organizations reported at least one cybersecurity incident. Acronis Cyber Protect Local brings the power and innovation of our cloud-based cyber protection platform directly to on-premises environments, running on a dedicated management server within customers’ internal networks, enabling compliance with stringent data security and location requirements.
By consolidating multiple tools into a single platform, Acronis Cyber Protect Local reduces complexity and significantly increases the productivity of IT professionals, while improving operational efficiency and lowering the total cost of ownership. AI-powered automation, anomaly detection, self-service recovery, cross-platform migration, and SIEM integration enable both expert technicians and non-IT users to respond quickly to potential threats and outages.
Its main functions include the following:•
Unified cyber resilience: backup, recovery, cybersecurity and endpoint management in a single agent and a single console.•
Data sovereignty: keeps administration and data within the client’s perimeter to ensure regulatory compliance.•
Full workload compatibility: Covers legacy operating systems, operational technology (OT) environments, industrial control systems (ICS), and modern virtualization platforms to provide comprehensive protection in hybrid and mixed environments.•
AI-powered automation: optimizes administration tasks, anomaly detection, and vulnerability remediation.•
Self-service recovery: Enables users to recover data and systems autonomously, improving resilience.•
Agility across platforms: allows for easy migration and retrieval of data between different environments.
With Acronis Cyber Protect Local, organizations gain proactive, active, and reactive layers of defense specifically designed for environments where cloud connectivity is limited or prohibited. This local-focused innovation extends the reach of Acronis’ global cyber protection technology to enterprises, industrial organizations, and multi-site entities that require secure, offline deployment options.
