2021-05-28 Cyber protection is not only digital protection. If this wasn't clear before, two recent high profile attacks, one in South Africa and one in the US, should make this…
2021-05-05 A recent cyberthreat update from Acronis Cyber Protection Operations Centers (CPOCs) featured the ongoing fallout from the attacks on Accellion’s legacy FTA product. Multinational energy giant Royal Dutch Shell…
2021-04-29 It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone reading this that cybercrime had ramped up massively in the last year. According to the FBI, cyberattacks are up by a massive…
2021-04-14 Here are the ten most interesting and enlightening stats you need to know from the Acronis Cyber Protection Week 2021 EMEA Deepdive report: Stats pertaining to IT professionals The…
2021-03-31 Congratulations, we've reached the final session of Acronis's online marketing course for its MSP partners titled “Marketing Fundamentals (for Non-Marketers)”. And to jump straight to the end of the…
2021-03-23 Our mission at Synapsys was always to bring Acronis to Africa - well, it’s happened! You may already have seen the announcement in the news or on social media,…
2021-03-12 Now that you have the fundamentals of Bullseye Marketing in place, this week’s session of “Marketing Fundamentals (for Non-Marketers)” opens the treasure chest that is Acronis’s Partner marketing material.…
2021-03-04 This week’s session of “Marketing Fundamentals (for Non-Marketers)”, Acronis’s online marketing course for its MSP partners, changes gear. Up until now the course has focussed on quick marketing wins,…
2021-02-25 This week’s Synapsys notes post is all about finding and targeting your ideal customers who are ready to buy now or in the next few months. We’ll look at…
2021-02-18 We loved the subject line of the email that introduced the second session of Acronis’s “Marketing Fundamentals (for Non-Marketers)” so much that we used it for the title of…
2021-02-11 At the end of November last year, Acronis launched an excellent online marketing course for its MSP partners. Titled “Marketing Fundamentals (for Non-Marketers)” it runs for six video sessions…
2021-01-27 It’s not as if we weren’t warned. We’ve had three years’ notice that Adobe would be discontinuing Flash Player and stop supporting Flash content at the end of 2020. Yet…
2021-01-20 By Peter French, Synapsys Managing Director Between $400 billion and $800 billion. That’s how large global cyber crime revenues are according to Acronis founder and CEO, Serguei “SB” Beloussov,…
2020-12-10 The Africa region massively exceeded Acronis’s projections for 2020, according to Sara Pinheiro, Acronis business development manager for Africa, who was in town recently and joined us for socially-distanced…
2020-11-26 A few weeks ago, Nick Keene, Synapsys Presales Engineer, joined the panel in a webinar organised by Rectron to discuss how companies can boost their cyber protection. As well…
2020-11-19 Our friends at Rectron recently invited Nick Keene, Synapsys’s Presales Engineer, to participate in a webinar discussing how companies can secure themselves from cyberthreats. During the webinar, Nick shared…
2020 11 11 By Shannon Kroger, Synapsys Inside Sales Professional Think about when you tell someone to “stay safe”. You probably mean drive safely, lock your front door, and, in…
2020 11 05 If you don't have time to browse the full set of on-demand recordings from the recent Acronis Global Cyber Summit, you'll benefit from dipping into the below: IT…
2020 11 04 Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, has launched the Acronis #CyberFit Academy which plans to train one million people by 2022. The new training and certification…
2020 10 28 Although we were disappointed not to be able to participate in another amazing in-person event in Miami this year, we were very excited by what emerged during…
2020 10 21 If you haven’t been paying attention, traditional backup is dead. But for Acronis, backup continues, even better, as a critical part of cyber protection: a new, integrated,…
2020-10-14 By Peter French, Synapsys Managing Director Two takeaways from the 2020 Acronis Cyber Readiness Report have left me scratching my head. First, 32% of companies reported that they haven’t been targeted by…
2020 10 07 It’s easy to get caught up in the impact of cybercrime on corporate and personal data. It’s data that ransomware hijacks, and it’s data that gets leaked. This…
2020 09 23 On 18 September Acronis hosted a fascinating virtual conference to get a cross-industry view of the latest cyber protection trends, strategies and tools that leaders are tapping…
2020-09-16 As shocking as the statistics that 9% of companies around the world report experiencing a cyber attack every hour and 22% experience at least one a day, is that…
As Acronis Cyber Protect 15 is released, new global research reveals that 31% of companies struggle with daily cyber attacks and new protection challenges caused by remote work. Acronis,…
2020-09-02 By Nick Keene, Synapsys Presales Engineer When Acronis launched Cyber Protect Cloud it promised to give MSPs even more ways to build their businesses. And then when the COVID-19…
2020-08-19 By Peter French, Synapsys Managing Director Previously I wrote about how you can jumpstart your home network to cope with working, learning and entertaining from home. A couple of…
2020-08-12 One of Acronis’s guiding principles has always been the activation and support of a vibrant managed service provider (MSP) ecosystem around the world. And this has become even more…
2020-08-07 When our Presales Engineer Nick Keene participated in the beta programme for Cyber Protect Cloud a few months ago, he commented that having a unified product for data protection…
2020-07-29 By Nick Keene, Synapsys Presales Engineer Writing on day 125 of the pandemic lockdown in South Africa, there can be no doubt that temporary band-aid measures are not what…
2020-07-22 By Peter French, Synapsys Managing Director The Internet of things (IoT) mega-trend can seem very space age and futuristic, a bit like hoverboards or Jetsons-style robo-butlers. It’s often mentioned…
2020-07-01 By Nick Keene, Synapsys Presales Engineer Now and again something pops up from the pre-COVID 19 world to remind us about things that were, and still are, important, despite…
2020-06-24 Earlier this quarter our Presales Engineer Nick Keene compiled some insights from his Introduction to Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud webinar series, first highlighting his top six technical questions, followed…
2020-06-17 By Peter French, Synapsys Managing Director Home WiFi networks aren’t corporate networks. I think we’ve all realised that, after 12 weeks of working from home during lockdown. Overnight, we…
2020-06-10 Comparisons between cyber security and human health are inevitable, especially given that we’re in the middle of a global health crisis. And Acronis has produced a particularly compelling white…
2020-06-03 By Nick Keene, Synapsys Presales Engineer Two weeks ago I answered some of the technical questions about Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud that arose during an MSP webinar series. As…
2020-06-02 Following Acronis’s early May launch of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Synapsys, the leading distributor of Acronis cyber protection in Africa, has seen its first managed service provider (MSP) partners…
2020-05-27 Even as many countries around the world start relaxing their COVID-19 lockdown rules allowing more people to return to their workplace, working from home and remote working is here…
2020-05-20 By Nick Keene, Synapsys Presales Engineer In late March and early April we ran a series of webinars introducing our partners across Africa to Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud in…
2020-05-13 Despite the increased sophistication and industrialisation of cyber crime (ransomware-as-a-service, anyone?), criminals still have a fondness for phishing scams as the entry point for malware attacks. Why? Because they…
2020-05-07 By Peter French, Synapsys Managing Director It was only a few short months ago that I attended the inaugural Acronis Global Cyber Summit in the US, where Acronis CEO,…
2020-05-01 When Donally Phonene, Enterprise Systems Engineer, joined the Central University of Technology (CUT), he identified the need for a new backup system that was simple to use and manage,…
2020-04-15 As if hospitals around the world didn’t have enough to deal with during the COVID-19 pandemic, in early April Interpol warned healthcare institutions about an increased ransomware threat. It…
2020-04-08 Synapsys Presales Engineer Nick Keene, together with two representatives from a USA-based MSP and Czech-based Distributor respectively, recently shared their beta-experience feedback on the upcoming Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud…
2020-03-27 Having basic data backup procedures or even cloud storage is simply not good enough anymore. The spread of ransomware and other data security threats means that a more comprehensive…
2020-03-27 At the end of February, Synapsys, the leading distributor of Acronis cyber protection in Africa, facilitated in-person Acronis Cyber Cloud training for its managed service provider (MSP) partners from…
Acronis Cyber Cloud version 8.0 will deliver advanced full-spectrum cyber protection, thanks to several significant feature enhancements. “These new features are sure to delight service provider partners worldwide, simplifying their tasks and giving…
January, 2020 Two recent Acronis events in Miami and Abu Dhabi in October and November respectively provided the ideal platform for new product announcements and the exposition of a fresh strategic vision for…