Acronis taps Intel’s TDT technology to enhance its security offerings

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, announced today the enhancement of its security defense against advanced file-less attacks using Intel® Threat Detection
Technology (Intel® TDT) leveraging the Intel® integrated GPU to offload memory scanning operations
from the CPU. Acronis is the latest cyber protection company to integrate Intel® TDT to enrich its
security products.
With cyber threats evolving and growing on a daily basis, Acronis researchers have witnessed new types
of malware and attack vectors on enterprises such as polymorphic malware and file-less attacks. Many
threats utilize an in-memory-only approach which can be hard to detect. Intel® TDT technology allows
Acronis cyber protection solutions to free resources while scanning HDD and memory resulting in
improved system performance.
Acronis researchers found that while scanning all the processes in system memory on supported CPUs,
Intel® TDT reduced the load on the CPU 2.4 times, by offloading the job to the Intel® integrated GPU.
The Acronis solution combines complete single-agent cyber protection with Intel® TDT. This
enhancement results in lower CPU utilization which allows more compute capacity for productivity and
office software used by Acronis end customers while compute-intensive security operations run in
Intel®'s integrated GPU. The innovation of Intel® TDT will be available through Acronis Cyber Protect
Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect, and Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office solutions.
“The integration of Intel® TDT into Acronis cyber protection solutions is a logical step to meet the needs
of our users. During the last year, we observed that almost 50 percent of attacks detected were file-less.
The use of this Intel technology is a great milestone as we continue to optimize and enhance our anti-
malware engine,” said Patrick Pulvermueller, CEO, Acronis.
“Through our collaboration with Acronis to integrate Intel® Threat Detection Technology into their cyber
protection solutions, customers of all sizes that utilize Intel vPro® can perform frequent and highly
performant memory scanning. This is a great benefit for our mutual customers as we help them stay
ahead of increasingly sophisticated threats,” said Carla Rodríguez, vice president and general manager,
Ecosystem Partner Enabling, Intel.
“As the IT world grows in sophistication and continues its migration to the cloud, more stress has fallen
on security teams with less-integrated technology, creating complexity and unintentional blind spots in
security systems. According to a recent IDC survey of 1,015 security professionals in North America, this
is particularly the case for smaller organizations who are less equipped to effectively operate separate
products from multiple vendors or benefit from a position of strength in negotiating with multiple
vendors. As such, they are more likely to resonate with an integrated hardware and software approach
to endpoint security,” noted Michael Suby, research vice president of security and trust, IDC.
Acronis provides its users with the ability to take back control and overcome complexity with an
integrated platform which results in greater operational efficiency. By implementing an integrated

solution like Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, organizations can reduce the time that security teams spend
on various operational activities, lower training costs, reduce the complexity in their environment by
minimizing the number of tools managed, and ultimately drive business growth.