Acronis Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud vs Red Canary 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.

Red Canary MDR is a managed detection and response service covering endpoints, identities, cloud environments, and other connected security sources. Experts monitor, investigate, and help respond to threats around the clock. Detection uses behavior-based methods, threat intelligence, and threat hunts to identify suspicious activity. Customers can follow investigations in a unified timeline showing a threat’s root cause, scope, and impact. Response combines automated actions with human-led work, including remediation by Red Canary experts. Integrations span endpoint, network, cloud, identity, SaaS, and other security data, with examples including AWS, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks. Alerts can be sent to SIEM, SOAR, or ITSM platforms. The Security Data Lake stores MDR or other raw data for a retention period selected by the customer. Red Canary describes the service as complementing an existing SOC. Its Trust Center lists ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and SOC 2 Type II, plus annual audits, penetration testing, disaster recovery, and vulnerability disclosure practices. Current product documentation identifies it as Zscaler MDR. Pricing is on request.