Acronis: Pandemic Hastened Cloud Migration, Prompting New Security Issues

SPONSORED: WATCH NOW -- The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated an ongoing shift in data away from business data centers to home offices and the cloud, explains Candid Wuëst, VP of cyber protection research for Acronis.

Terry Sweeney, Contributing Editor

May 27, 2021

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SPONSORED: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated an ongoing shift in data away from business data centers to home offices and the cloud, explains Candid Wuëst, VP of cyber protection research for Acronis. Wuëst also discusses the huge uptick in data breaches and credential theft, as well as the potential use of AI-fueled automation by cybercriminals. WATCH NOW: 

About the Author

Terry Sweeney

Contributing Editor

Terry Sweeney is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor who has covered technology, networking, and security for more than 20 years. He was part of the team that started Dark Reading and has been a contributor to The Washington Post, Crain's New York Business, Red Herring, Network World, InformationWeek and Mobile Sports Report.

In addition to information security, Sweeney has written extensively about cloud computing, wireless technologies, storage networking, and analytics. After watching successive waves of technological advancement, he still prefers to chronicle the actual application of these breakthroughs by businesses and public sector organizations.


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