Acronis Cyber Protect
Backup, disaster recovery and endpoint protection for business devices and servers.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Self-hostableCan be installed on your own servers or on-premises.
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Overview
Acronis Cyber Protect is backup and endpoint security software for businesses from Acronis, headquartered in Schaffhausen. It combines image and file-level backup, immutable backups and continuous data protection with anti-malware, exploit prevention, vulnerability assessment, patch management and, in the cloud-managed version, endpoint detection and response. It protects Windows, macOS and Linux machines, mobile devices, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Proxmox and other hypervisors, and Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace data. The Standard, Advanced and Backup Advanced editions differ in features and supported workloads; managed service providers use the separate Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud platform, and consumers the related Acronis True Image.
The product is managed either through the Acronis cloud console or through a management server installed on the customer’s premises, with backups stored locally, in the Acronis cloud or both. Acronis operates its own data centres and also uses Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure; customers choose the region. Acronis opened a Swiss data-centre location in 2016, but its current public pages do not list data-centre locations, so present availability in Switzerland could not be confirmed.
Acronis was founded in Singapore in 2003 and has its research and development centres in Bulgaria, the United States, Israel and Singapore. The Swedish investor EQT has been its majority owner since 2025. In September 2025 the US Director of National Intelligence issued an order under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act excluding Acronis products and services from US intelligence community systems; the reasons were not published.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
Acronis Cyber Protect is operated by Acronis International GmbH, which is headquartered in Schaffhausen. Headquartered in Switzerland, but ultimately controlled by a company outside Switzerland.
We could not verify where customer data is hosted.
May replace
Foreign products with overlapping functionality. An alternative is not necessarily a one-to-one replacement.
Swiss footprint
Five independent questions. A Swiss company is not automatically Swiss-hosted — and vice versa. How the footprint is assessed
Swiss company · foreign parent. Headquartered in Switzerland, but ultimately controlled by a company outside Switzerland.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen (SH), SwitzerlandVerified[1]
Acronis states that it is headquartered in Schaffhausen. The UID register lists the business address of Acronis International GmbH as Rheinweg 9, 8200 Schaffhausen, with the legal seat in the municipality of Neuhausen am Rheinfall. According to its registered purpose, the GmbH provides financing, strategy, marketing and IP licensing services to the Acronis group. Acronis's research and development centres are in Bulgaria, the United States, Israel and Singapore.
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- No — EQT (fund EQT X) · SwedenVendor claim[3]
In August 2024 Acronis and EQT announced that the EQT X fund would acquire a majority stake, with closing expected in the first half of 2025; independent reporting records EQT as majority owner from 2025, and an EQT partner sits on the Acronis board. The founders, management and earlier investors, including funds managed by CVC, Springcoast and BlackRock Private Equity Partners, remain significant minority shareholders. EQT is a Swedish investment firm based in Stockholm.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- NoInferred[8]
Acronis is headquartered in Schaffhausen, but its research and development centres are in Bulgaria, the United States, Israel and Singapore.
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Unknown / not verified
Not verified for 2026. Customers choose the Acronis data-centre region for cloud backups. Acronis put a data centre in Zurich-West, operated by a Swiss data-centre provider, into service in 2016, and it has since listed Switzerland among its data-centre countries. Its current data-centre and sub-processor pages do not name locations, so the present availability of a Swiss region could not be confirmed. Acronis runs its own data centres alongside regions on Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. With local deployment, backups and the management server can stay entirely on customer infrastructure.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- Unknown / not verified
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
- Unknown / not verified
Privacy & security
- Not verified
- End-to-end encryption, Encryption at rest, Encryption in transit, Multi-factor authentication, Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC), SCIM provisioning, Public API and Data export
- Certifications
Pricing
Paid plans fromUSD 85 / yearCyber Protect Standard, per device, starting price
- Pricing model
- Subscription
- Free plan
- No
- Free trial
- Yes
- Enterprise plan
- Yes
- Billing in CHF
- Unknown / not verified
Prices checked 15 Oct 2026. Always confirm on the vendor’s site. Pricing page ↗
Open source
- Open source
- NoInferred
Proprietary software; no source code is published.
Company
Backup and cybersecurity software company founded in Singapore in 2003, headquartered in Schaffhausen and majority-owned by EQT since 2025.
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Sources & verification
Every claim on this page is marked as verified, vendor claim or inferred. Unknown means we could not confirm it — not that the answer is “no”.
- Verified Confirmed by an independent or official source such as the commercial register.
- Vendor claim Stated by the vendor in its own documentation, website or legal terms.
- Inferred Derived by the editors from indirect evidence — see the note.
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