Acronis Advanced Management

Acronis Advanced Management is an add-on pack that layers IT operations capabilities on top of the Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud agent. According to the official data sheet, the pack brings six capabilities: software inventory collection, automated patch management, fail-safe patching that takes an automatic system backup before applying a patch, ready-made Cyber Scripting scripts, disk health monitoring, and remote desktop/remote assistance for Windows, Mac and Linux (Acronis Advanced Management data sheet, 2023). The same agent both takes the backup and deploys the patch; when a patch breaks a system, the point you roll back to is already in the same console.

Threat data shows that patching is not merely a maintenance chore but a security control in its own right. ENISA Threat Landscape 2025 analysed 4,875 incidents between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025 and identified the leading initial access vectors as phishing (60%) and exploitation of vulnerabilities (21.3%). The same report notes that 53.7% of the incidents concerned essential entities in scope of the NIS2 Directive (ENISA, 2025). Every patch left open is a doorway that attackers use in more than one out of every five incidents.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud already unifies backup and baseline cyber protection in a single agent; Acronis Advanced Management adds the "keep systems patched, inventoried and healthy" layer on top of it. Acronis markets the pack as Acronis RMM on its current product pages, while the name "Advanced Management" continues to be used in data sheets and licence listings (Acronis product page). At Sora Yazılım we license the pack within the Acronis solution family, deploy it, configure patch and scripting policies, and — where requested — run it for you under a managed service model.

What does Acronis Advanced Management do, and what does it add to standard Cyber Protect protection?

Short answer: the standard subscription already provides centralised management, automatic discovery, vulnerability assessment and reporting; the add-on puts an execution layer on top of these. In other words, the standard product answers the question "which machine has which vulnerability", while Advanced Management automates closing that gap, puts a safety net in place before the fix is applied, and verifies the result against the inventory.

The official data sheet draws a clear line between what is "already there" and what "the pack adds". The table below follows that distinction exactly.

The rows in this table are based on the lists in Acronis's own Advanced Management data sheet (Acronis, 2023). Clarifying this distinction before purchase matters: some organisations discover that the capability they need — vulnerability assessment or hardware inventory, for example — is already part of the standard subscription, and then choose to license the add-on only for the workloads that genuinely need patching and automation.

We deliberately avoid quoting a figure for the number of supported third-party applications: the same official Acronis data sheet states one number on its first page and a different one on its second. What can be said with confidence is that coverage includes hundreds of third-party Windows applications alongside Windows operating system updates. Acronis publishes the current list of third-party products supported by vulnerability assessment and patch management in a separate knowledge base article (Acronis Support KB 62853); before deployment we work through that catalogue with you to verify whether the applications that are business-critical in your organisation appear on the list. And it is not only end-user applications that need patching: according to Acronis's H1 2025 report, among Acronis customers using one or more RMM tools, the MSP tool with the most vulnerabilities requiring patching was TeamViewer, affecting 4.56% of global customers (Acronis Cyberthreats Report H1 2025).

Why should patch management sit in the same place as the backup agent, and what does fail-safe patching deliver?

Short answer: most patch delays stem not from ignorance but from fear — if there is no answer to "what happens if the patch breaks the server?", the patch window keeps getting postponed. Fail-safe patching removes exactly that fear: the pack takes an automatic backup of the system before applying the patch; if something goes wrong afterwards, the rollback point is ready, and no separate backup product, separate team or separate approval is required.

This is not the same as running two products side by side. When a separate patching tool is used with a separate backup product, whether the pre-patch backup was actually taken has to be verified manually; in the Acronis model the backup is a step within the patching workflow. The cost of downtime justifies this too: according to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025, which studied 600 organisations breached between March 2024 and February 2025, 65% of organisations have still not fully recovered from a breach; among those that say they have fully recovered, 76% took more than 100 days and 26% more than 150 days (IBM & Ponemon, 2025).

In the worst case, where a patch prevents the system from booting, there are two ways back. The first is a classic restore; the second is running a virtual machine directly from the backup. Instant Restore starts a virtual machine straight from a disk-level backup containing the operating system; while the machine runs, its disks are emulated from the backup and storage space is needed only for the changes that occur. Acronis recommends keeping the temporary machine for no more than three days and then deleting it or converting it into a permanent VM (Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide). If your recovery objectives are tighter than that, the Acronis Disaster Recovery add-on comes into play.

Making sure the rollback point cannot be deleted by an attacker is part of this picture too. Since September 2024, immutable storage in Governance mode with a 14-day retention period has been enabled by default across all Acronis-hosted storages and all Partner and Customer tenants (Acronis Cyber Protect 16 Web Help). For backup encryption, the AES algorithm runs in Galois/Counter (GCM) mode with a randomly generated 256-bit key; that key is encrypted with AES-256 using the SHA-2 (256-bit) hash of the password, and the password is never stored anywhere on disk or in the backups (Acronis Cyber Protect 16 Web Help).

Which tasks can be automated with Cyber Scripting, and which deployment does it run in?

Short answer: Cyber Scripting lets repetitive IT tasks be executed through scripts defined in the console, and Acronis's official documentation lists it among the capabilities available in the cloud deployment only. The same list also includes remote desktop, machine-learning-based workload monitoring, hardware inventory, EDR, disaster recovery as a service, and cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace (Acronis Cyber Protect 16 Web Help).

The pack ships with a ready-made script library, and organisations can adapt those scripts to their own environments. These are the tasks we automate most often in the field:

• Installation and removal: silent installation of the standard application set when a new device is commissioned, and removal of unwanted software.
• Configuration standardisation: bringing power settings, local administrator accounts, service states and registry keys in line with the corporate standard.
• Maintenance tasks: temporary file clean-up, intervention when a disk space threshold is exceeded, log rotation.
• Verification and reporting: post-patch service and version checks, confirmation that a business-critical application is running.
• Post-incident remediation: distributing a defined remediation step to an entire group after a security alert.

Remote desktop and remote assistance are also capabilities added by the pack, covering Windows, Mac and Linux. Their operational value is that user support calls can be handled from the same console as backup and patching: the technician connects directly from the screen where the device's backup status, missing patches and disk health are already visible. Protection also continues in branch and field scenarios where connectivity drops; once a protection plan has been deployed to a machine, the agent keeps performing protection operations for 30 days even if communication with the management server is lost (Acronis Cyber Protect 16 Web Help).

What do disk health monitoring and software inventory change in day-to-day operations?

Short answer: both produce data that works "before the incident", not "after" it. Disk health monitoring tracks a drive's tendency to fail and opens a planned replacement window; software inventory shows which application runs at which version on which machine and reveals whether patch coverage is genuinely comprehensive. Patch management without inventory is an exercise carried out without ever noticing the machines that fall outside scope.

Three gains stand out in practice. First, when a drive that is about to fail is detected, the machine lands on the maintenance list rather than the recovery list; the risk of data loss is closed out before it turns into the cost of unplanned downtime. Second, software inventory produces a record that can also be used for licence compliance: applications installed in the field but not covered by a contract become visible. Third, when inventory and vulnerability assessment are read together, patch prioritisation can follow the logic of "the riskiest version present on the largest number of machines".

If you want to read this data alongside the security side, the Acronis Advanced Security + EDR add-on brings attack chain analysis into the same console, so that "which vulnerability did this machine have" and "what happened on this machine" are answered on one screen. The following data point is also instructive for seeing the organisation's overall threat picture: according to Acronis's H1 2025 Cyberthreats Report, based on signals from more than 1,000,000 unique endpoints, the number of publicly disclosed ransomware victims in January–June 2025 rose by nearly 70% compared with the same period in 2023 and 2024, and manufacturing was the most targeted sector in the first quarter of 2025 with 15% of all cases (Acronis Cyberthreats Report H1 2025).

Which management capabilities are missing in on-premises Cyber Protect 16 and 17 deployments?

Short answer: a portion of the modern capabilities on the management side depends on the version and the deployment model. According to Acronis's official feature comparison knowledge base article, software inventory, hardware inventory and device discovery with Device Sense are not present in Cyber Protect 16 in any deployment; those three capabilities arrive with Cyber Protect 17. Cyber Scripting, remote desktop and machine-learning-based workload monitoring, meanwhile, are offered only in the cloud deployment and not on the on-premises management server.

The table follows the comparison in Acronis's "On-premises and Cloud features" knowledge base article; the label "Advanced" indicates that the feature in question requires the Advanced edition (Acronis Support KB 73376, 2025). The source of this table is not the same document as the Cyber Protect Cloud table at the top of this page: the first is based on the list the Advanced Management data sheet gives for the cloud subscription, whereas this table is based on the knowledge base article comparing the Cyber Protect 16/17 product line. Because the two documents describe different product lines — hardware inventory, for instance, is listed as a standard capability of the cloud subscription while the same row shows NO for Cyber Protect 16 — we verify the exact scope for your organisation's version and deployment combination together with you, against Acronis's current documentation, before purchase. The practical consequence: organisations running an on-premises management server with Acronis Cyber Protect 16 must move to cloud management or design a hybrid model in order to benefit from Advanced Management's script automation and remote assistance capabilities. It is worth remembering that where the data sits and where the console runs are two different questions; Istanbul also appears on Acronis's official data centre list (Acronis Cyber Cloud Data Centers).

How do you choose between Acronis Advanced Management and Bitdefender Patch Management?

Short answer: the choice depends on which platform you want patching to be part of. Acronis offers patching as a layer of a backup and recovery platform; Bitdefender offers it as a module of an endpoint protection console. Both are legitimate choices, and the right answer depends on which platform the organisation has already invested in.

We see three patterns in the field. If endpoint security is already managed with Bitdefender, keeping patching in the same console is operationally the path of least friction; in that case Bitdefender Patch Management is the natural choice and Acronis is positioned as the backup layer. If depth in endpoint protection and risk management are wanted in the same package, Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security Premium is worth evaluating. On legacy servers where patching is impossible and the version is frozen, a virtual patching approach comes onto the agenda; for that need Trend Micro Deep Security is positioned as a complementary layer. Acronis Advanced Management stands out in organisations that are pursuing consolidation and want to underwrite patching risk with a backup.

KVKK compliance and rollout: how do we plan a patch management project?

Short answer: KVKK (Turkey's data protection law) does not mandate a particular product name; it expects the data controller to take appropriate technical and administrative measures, and systems kept up to date together with verifiable backups are the concrete equivalent of those measures. The "Backing Up Personal Data" section of the Personal Data Security Guide published by the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority states that, if data is damaged, destroyed or stolen, the data controller must use the backed-up data to resume operations as quickly as possible; that backup strategies must be developed against ransomware; that only the system administrator should be able to access backed-up personal data; and that data set backups must be kept off the network (KVKK Personal Data Security Guide).

Within that framework, Advanced Management helps at two points: fail-safe patching offsets the risk of maintenance-induced data loss with a backup, while inventory and patch reports produce evidence that the measure was taken. The question asked in audits is usually not "do you patch" but "can you show which patch was applied to which machine and when". Scheduled reports put the answer to that question on record.

Our rollout approach consists of the following steps: reviewing the existing Acronis tenant and protection plans; confirming the cloud deployment requirement for Cyber Scripting and remote assistance; producing the inventory and checking that business-critical third-party applications have an equivalent in the patch catalogue; trialling the patch window with fail-safe patching in a pilot group; separating the patch classes that require approval from those to be applied automatically; routing disk health and inventory alerts to the right teams; adapting the script library to corporate standards; and establishing the reporting calendar. For organisations that also want to bring the email layer into the same console, we plan the Acronis Advanced Email Security add-on alongside it; for broader needs on the server, monitoring and automation side, our DevOps and infrastructure services come into play.

Let's assess together whether Acronis Advanced Management is the right fit for your organisation, taking your existing backup and endpoint management investments into account. Share your workload inventory, your list of business-critical applications and your patch window constraints, and we will prepare a proposal covering licence scope, deployment model and rollout plan. Get in touch via our contact page — Turkish-language technical support and post-deployment operational support are included in the way we work.