Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office Reviews

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is used to take care of the data for our manufacturing company and its users. We are just exploring ourselves in cybersecurity, and it will take time for us to mature.

When it comes to backup, the biggest benefits of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office are its reliability and the assurance it provides, which we have specifically tried and tested during disasters as it saved us from losing data.

I use the disk cloning feature in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, but it is not needed as image backup takes the whole image directly onto the cloud.

I am using real-time protection in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office.

I track two levels of ransomware protection: one from Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office and one from CrowdStrike.

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office needs to improve their reporting part, and the support provided is sometimes inadequate, which causes issues for customers.

The technical support from the third party dealing with Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is not very sound, and Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office needs to improve the support they provide.

I have been using it for almost three to four years.

Glitches occur occasionally, but it is stable overall.

The solution is scalable without limitations.

I would rate technical support from Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office as a five out of ten.

The glitches happen mostly with support, where they don't configure things properly and take time to provide solutions. When a disaster happens, the time taken to restore data and make the system functional is much faster than with any other solution.

Positive

I previously was using vendors like Cisco or Sophos, but now I am not. I have the VM-Series.

The installation of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is extremely easy; even a child can install it.

I have not purchased Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office directly; we need to go through a third party in our region.

The technical support from the third party dealing with Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is not very sound, and Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office needs to improve the support they provide.

There is a return on investment with Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, but it can only be seen during disasters.

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is not that expensive; it is quite affordable.

I previously was using vendors like Cisco or Sophos, but now I am not.

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is used to take care of the data for our manufacturing company and its users.

I work with CrowdStrike only for antivirus. We have antivirus products, but not as a main solution. The antiviruses we are using are from another vendor. For antiviruses, we are using Falcon CrowdStrike.

My main experience is with CrowdStrike antivirus and Palo Alto firewall. These are the two things for security, and we are exploring other software solutions that will be beneficial for us.

I track two levels of ransomware protection: one from Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office and one from CrowdStrike.

I do not work with Cortex cloud by Palo Alto; I have the hardware on-premise at my location.

I do not work with WildFire, Prisma Access, or Prisma SD-WAN, but I will be looking forward to it.

This is the only firewall I am using, but very soon, I will be opting for another Palo Alto firewall of the same model that will be working on high availability.

I am not knowledgeable about the CN-Series firewall; I can only talk about the one I have.

We have acquired one particular brand, a company called Pernod Ricard, which manufactures products like Chivas Regal whisky and Beefeater.

Endpoint Detection and Response is something we will explore after a certain period of time and we are looking for it very soon. I would rate this review an overall eight out of ten.

I use Acronis for backups. I use it to back up to other drives on the network, back up the entire system, including system images of the Windows C drive and all the data drives. This is for a small business, just myself.

The reliable tool allows for quick restoration from backup copies, meaning I do not have to reload Windows or programs. It enables me to sleep at night.

Acronis schedules in the background and does incremental images so it doesn’t take forever to backup. If I lose a drive, I can quickly restore it from another drive on the network. It doesn’t catch me off guard with failures.

I originally intended to use Acronis for cloud backup, however, the cloud backup had major problems. After struggling with it for about two years, I switched to Carbonite and have not gone back.

I have been using Acronis for probably 20 years.

The stability of Acronis is great; it just works.

I have no problem with scalability. The biggest drive I have is four terabytes. I am not a large data consumer. I am assuming it would work with larger enterprises, but I do not have experience with larger drives.

The only time I had problems was with the cloud service. At that time, it just didn't make sense to use it. Network backups are flawless once set up.

Positive

I originally used Acronis for cloud backup and switched to Carbonite due to unresolved cloud backup issues with Acronis.

Acronis is relatively straightforward to set up. The challenge is deciding between a full backup, incremental, or differential backups. Incremental works better for me.

The pricing for Acronis Home Office is fine. It is worth every penny I pay for it. I use it every day for all my drives.

It is essential for users to spend time understanding how it works and setting it up properly. It will do what they need out of the box, but with tweaking, it can provide desired efficiency or features. 

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I got the software mainly for doing local and online backups, and then it comes with this security software included within the program. So, I use it for malware detection, ransomware detection, antivirus, and so on. When I have the scanner on full-time, it knocks out the Windows Defender. So I can have either.

I’m still trying to find out if I turn off the continuous scanning, whether it still does stuff in the background anyhow. But it has picked up some junk in the past to be quarantined. A couple of false positives, so I had to whitelist a few things. And it blocked me from a few sites.

The user interface is pretty simple. That’s good and bad. I don’t have the most up-to-date version, but I don’t think there have been many differences in the last couple of years. It’s fairly simple to set up and configure, and it seems to behave well with Windows 10.

For the protection features. You can run full scans, quick scans. There’s quarantine, protection exclusions, protection against ransomware attacks, illicit crypto mining, malicious files, malicious websites, and Zoom/Webex injection attacks.

Real-time protection monitors all our quarantine.

The web filtering seems to work pretty well too. But I’ve also got Malwarebytes now. In the past, it’s worked pretty well.

I just had a few negligible issues, not really worth mentioning. I had a couple of false positives, but that’s it. I can’t think of anything else. But it does specifically have an antivirus function in it.

I’ve been using it for at least four years.

I haven’t gotten any bugs on the computer or had any issues with viruses or malware.

It does not apply to my use case. It's just for my desktop PC. I'm the only person who use it.

The customer service and support are excellent.  I’ve always been able to get hold of somebody to talk to. The support is very good. Excellent.

Positive

I have got Microsoft 365.

The whole program, the backup software with the anti-malware protection, is in one package called Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office. It has a pretty heavy installation footprint. But as far as running in the background, it doesn’t seem to weigh down the system. I’ve got sixteen gigs of memory, and it doesn’t seem to be overly exhaustive of system resources. It seems to run in the background pretty efficiently, like Windows Defender.

It’s a little more expensive than some other solutions for the amount of backup space you get. But the other backup solutions don’t have this sort of integrated security. It’s hard to compare them. 

For example, I get five terabytes of backup with iDrive. It’s another great product. But iDrive doesn’t have any of this protection, antivirus, malware, etc.

And that costs about as much as one terabyte of backup with Acronis. But it’s hard to compare because Acronis actually does full disk image backups locally. iDrive does not do that. iDrive does file backups locally, and I think image backups are done and kept in the cloud, which  I’m not okay with. I want to have a local backup image. And it’s fast. The backup is really fast. Backing up with Acronis is probably faster than iDrive or anything else I’ve used in the past. So, Acronis backups are really quick.

They’ve got some technology that makes incremental backups go quicker and that sort of thing. I’ve actually used Acronis products since the beginning with Acronis Backup back in 2003.

I’ve had to rescue a few computers with the backup software, and it works flawlessly.

I would recommend it to others. I would rate it a ten out of ten.  Acronis seems to fix problems fairly quickly. Issues get resolved quickly, and they do frequent updates of the program during the year. 

If you have a subscription, you can download the updated programs whenever they’re available. That’s another thing I like—frequent updates. 

But, the version I’m running now is like three years old, and I haven’t had a problem with it. So I haven’t bothered to upgrade it. Reinstalling it is a bit of a pain.

The solution is being used for endpoint protection.

The malware feature is most valuable. 

The configuration needs improvement. 

I have been using Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office for one year.

The stability is a nine out of ten. 

Previously I used Sophos. 

The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment takes 10 minutes time. 

I would rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.