Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud vs Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response

Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud provides disaster recovery as a service, launching recovery servers at a secondary site after a natural or man-made disaster. Recovery infrastructure can be managed in Acronis Cloud, Microsoft Azure or a hybrid setup. It supports production failover and automated test failover, including scheduled monthly server tests, while runbooks define steps for starting a client’s production environment in the cloud. The service can extend up to 23 local networks through a secure VPN tunnel or connect in cloud-only mode without a VPN appliance. Listed workloads include Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory, major Linux distributions, and several virtualization platforms. Acronis says clean recovery points can help prevent ransomware reinfection. Cloud servers consume compute points according to configured flavor even when powered off; recovery servers in Standby do not. If the compute-points quota overage is reached, primary and recovery servers shut down. There is no free plan; a 30-day trial is available. Pricing depends on usage and licensing, with no dollar price listed.

Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provides continuous monitoring of networks, endpoints, and cloud application services to detect, respond to, and recover from cyber attacks. It gathers security telemetry from internal and external networks, endpoints, and cloud environments, then enriches it with threat feeds, OSINT, CVE, and account-takeover data. Each customer receives the Arctic Wolf Concierge Experience, with security experts who learn the organization’s environment, priorities, and risks. The MDR license includes Arctic Wolf Agent and Active Response, which can contain, remove, or disconnect threats through email, identity, host, network, and URL integrations. Its Aurora Agentic SOC uses more than 300 specialized agents, with people validating critical decisions and outcomes. Data Explorer supports searches and investigations across analyzed, enriched, and historical security data. Customers can monitor investigations, manage tickets, review risk, and check environment health through mobile apps. Pricing is on request. MDR Connect includes 90 days of log retention and a three-day Data Explorer Lite search window; longer retention and access are add-ons.