Acronis has partnered with OEMs, featuring as the backup and recovery solution for a significant number of leading industrial automation vendors across the manufacturing, healthcare, and energy verticals. The vendor’s product helps to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., for NIS2) and standards (such as ISA/IEC 62443). Additionally, it can enhance the product offering of industrial automation vendors by providing a more robust and trusted service to their customers. Given its expertise in the backup and recovery space, Acronis has been able to develop a solution that suits the needs of industrial environments and the legacy systems still used within them.

The OT security market is dominated by asset management, monitoring, detection, and response—with many of the leading vendors in the space offering capabilities across all or most of these areas. That said, there are additional capabilities required in the market to meet both regulatory requirements and the needs of industrial and OT-focused organizations. Business continuity (whether for safety, operational, or financial reasons) is of utmost importance in these environments. Thus, being able to detect breaches or attacks is key, as is being able to prevent known threats. Additional capabilities have emerged to address the latter, whether they be preventive automation or more proactive approaches such as risk and vulnerability management, breach and attack simulation, and attack surface management.