Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud vs LevelBlue MDR

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.

LevelBlue MDR is a managed detection and response service that processes alerts from security tools to identify credible threats and help organizations respond. It provides global threat monitoring and response 24/7/365 while using customers’ existing security infrastructure. Its detection approach looks beyond indicators of compromise for behavioral threats that security technologies may miss. LevelBlue describes AI-enabled, context-based incident investigation, followed by containment and mitigation under client-driven response protocols; the service acts as an extension of the customer’s team. LevelBlue Fusion gives users a web portal and mobile app for viewing threats and taking action. MDR can correlate alerts across multiple cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure as one logical environment. The listed partners include Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, AWS, Google Cloud, and Cisco, among others. LevelBlue says each client is onboarded in 10 days or less. Its SpiderLabs team includes more than 1,000 security consultants, threat hunters, incident responders, forensic investigators, and researchers. The company lists security frameworks and certifications including ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and ISO 27701, but says product-specific details should be confirmed with sales. Pricing is by request.