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Acronis vs Dispel

Acronis sells Acronis Cyber Platform, one platform to protect, manage and automate IT with AI agents and human-in-the-loop. Dispel sells OT secure remote access, connecting vendors, OEMs, and operators to critical systems and data. CISO Tribune files both under MDR and managed SOC. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Acronis vs Dispel: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
AcronisAcronis sells Acronis Cyber Platform, one platform to protect, manage and automate IT with AI agents and human-in-the-loop.acronis.comDispelDispel sells OT secure remote access, connecting vendors, OEMs, and operators to critical systems and data.dispel.com
What it sells
  • Acronis Cyber Platform[4][5][6][13]One platform to protect, manage and automate IT with AI agents and human-in-the-loop.
  • Acronis Cyber Protect[3][4][13][16]Secure backup and cybersecurity for SMBs, Enterprises, and OT.
  • Acronis Cyber Protect Local[16]On-premises deployment of a dedicated management server.
  • Disaster Recovery[3][6][15]Cloud failover, recovery testing and failback for critical workloads.
  • Acronis Instant Restore[6]Runs supported virtual machines directly from backups.
  • Continuous Data Protection[6]Captures changes between scheduled backups.
  • Acronis Cloud[6][15]Runs critical systems when an outage or attack takes production offline.
  • Dispel Zero Trust Engine[3][6][7][11]Dispel Zero Trust Engine replaces jump servers, VPNs, and IT PAM tools.
  • Dispel Intelligence[8][15]Dispel Intelligence pulls existing Nozomi or Dragos device risk data directly into the access decision.
  • Dispel Identity[9]Dispel Identity adds IAL2 through government ID validation and a biometric match.
  • Dispel Compliance[10]Dispel Compliance scores live configuration against NERC CIP, NIST, IEC 62443, and NIS2 simultaneously.
  • Industrial Data Streaming[11]Secure, real-time transfer and industrial data integration.
  • Dispel OTFusion[12]A patented OT consolidation solution.
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Headquarters
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Founded
2003[2]Not stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
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Named customers
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Recent news
  • May 14, 2026Acronis appointed Jim Tedesco as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global sales and go-to-market execution.[19]
  • October 19, 2026Dispel launched a solution for OEMs and machine builders who deliver remote service directly to their industrial customers' equipment.[16]
  • September 14, 2026Dispel opened its Community Power & Water Program at the American Public Power Association's Cybersecurity & Technology Summit in San Antonio.[14]
  • June 17, 2026Dispel announced general availability of Site Console.[13]
  • May 14, 2026Dispel announced general availability of Session Forensics with Dynamic Risk Scoring, the first capability within Dispel Intelligence.[15]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[20]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 4, 2026[17]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, Acronis sells to service providers, giving them licensing models, commitment options and per-customer control. Acronis backup is described for IT teams and for MSPs that deliver services across customers. Acronis Cyber Protect is offered for SMBs, Enterprises, and OT. Acronis also describes industries with high downtime costs that need fast recovery of special-purpose industrial equipment (OT, ICS). Acronis names partners whose clients want plant floor coverage, and those clients' OT and IT teams in manufacturing, distribution, food and beverage, energy, water and data centers.From its own pages, Dispel sells mainly to industrial organizations in manufacturing, utilities, and energy. Dispel says it connects operators, contractors, and vendors to ICS and OT systems. Dispel describes cloud, on-prem, and hybrid deployment, and deployments for regulated utilities. Dispel describes multi-site industrial organizations as a setting for its OTFusion solution.
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September 30, 2026November 9, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Acronis and Dispel are both filed under MDR and managed SOC.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Acronis's primary category is Backup and cyber recovery; Dispel's is Zero trust network access.
  • Acronis is also filed under EDR and XDR and SaaS security posture. Dispel is also filed under OT and ICS security and Unidirectional gateways and secure transfer.
  • Acronis lists Acronis Cyber Platform, Acronis Cyber Protect, Acronis Cyber Protect Local, Disaster Recovery, Acronis Instant Restore and 2 more. Dispel lists Dispel Zero Trust Engine, Dispel Intelligence, Dispel Identity, Dispel Compliance, Industrial Data Streaming and 1 more.
  • Acronis was founded in 2003.

What it sells: Acronis

What Acronis Cyber Platform does[4][5][6][13]
Backup is one capability of Acronis Cyber Platform. Every service writes to the same data model. Acronis Cyber Platform was formerly called Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud.
What Disaster Recovery does[3][6][15]
Integrated Disaster Recovery can be added when critical workloads need cloud failover, recovery testing and failback. Critical servers fail over to Acronis Cloud while the original environment is repaired. Runbooks have ordered steps, parallel actions and completion checks.
What Acronis Cloud does[6][15]
Acronis Cloud is a backup destination alongside local storage, partner-hosted storage and supported public cloud destinations. Acronis offers a global network of 50+ data centers.

What it sells: Dispel

What Dispel Zero Trust Engine does[3][6][7][11]
Dispel Zero Trust Engine replaces jump servers, VPNs, and IT PAM tools. Dispel delivers a tiered connection suite with Browser Connect, Virtual Desktop, and Local Application options tailored to every user. Dispel Zero Trust Engine can be deployed in cloud, on-prem, and hybrid models.
What Dispel Intelligence does[8][15]
Session Forensics and Dynamic Risk Scoring are built into the same remote access session. Dispel tracks AAL at every login, with 11-signal risk scoring that surfaces anomalies in real time.
What Dispel Identity does[9]
Government ID validation, liveness check, and biometric match confirm a real, verified person, meeting NIST IAL2. Dispel Identity works with Microsoft Entra, Okta, PingIdentity, SAML, OIDC, and hybrid environments.
What Dispel Compliance does[10]
Dispel exports timestamped evidence as an OSCAL Component Definition, plus CSV and PDF summaries. Dispel lists supported frameworks as NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, NERC CIP, IEC 62443-3-3, NIS2 (EU 2024/2690), NIST CSF 2.0, and SANS ICS 5 Critical Controls.
What Industrial Data Streaming does[11]
Dispel says Industrial Data Streaming enables secure, real-time transfer and industrial data integration across operational, diagnostic, and system-level sources. The Dispel Zero Trust Engine provides an Industrial Data Streaming solution.
What Dispel OTFusion does[12]
Dispel OTFusion is a patented OT consolidation solution that unifies applications, operating systems, and services into a single secure environment. Dispel says customers can start with a single application or data stream and scale as results come in.

Questions about Acronis and Dispel

What do Acronis and Dispel sell?
Acronis sells Acronis Cyber Platform, Acronis Cyber Protect, Acronis Cyber Protect Local, Disaster Recovery, Acronis Instant Restore and 2 more. Dispel sells Dispel Zero Trust Engine, Dispel Intelligence, Dispel Identity, Dispel Compliance, Industrial Data Streaming and 1 more.
Are Acronis and Dispel in the same category?
They share MDR and managed SOC. Acronis's primary category is Backup and cyber recovery and Dispel's is Zero trust network access.
When were Acronis and Dispel founded?
Acronis was founded in 2003.
Who are Acronis and Dispel sold to?
From its own pages, Acronis sells to service providers, giving them licensing models, commitment options and per-customer control. From its own pages, Dispel sells mainly to industrial organizations in manufacturing, utilities, and energy.
What have Acronis and Dispel announced recently?
May 14, 2026: Acronis appointed Jim Tedesco as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global sales and go-to-market execution. October 19, 2026: Dispel launched a solution for OEMs and machine builders who deliver remote service directly to their industrial customers' equipment.

About Acronis

Acronis sells Acronis Cyber Platform, one platform to protect, manage and automate IT with AI agents and human-in-the-loop. Backup is built into Acronis Cyber Platform and covers workloads from servers, virtual machines and endpoints to databases and cloud applications. Backup is one capability of Acronis Cyber Platform, and on supported endpoints the same Acronis agent connects backup with cybersecurity and endpoint management. Acronis Cyber Platform was formerly called Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud.[4][6][13][16]

Acronis Cyber Platform has a common data model shared across all products, for AI agents and technicians. In Acronis Cyber Platform, every service writes to the same data model, so agents act with full context across backup, security and operations. Each agent in Acronis Cyber Platform runs with least-privilege access and policy guardrails, and the customer defines what it can read, change and act on per tenant. Acronis delivers secure AI adoption as a managed service that monitors GenAI usage across clients, blocks sensitive data from reaching public AI tools and stops harmful prompts.[8]

Acronis backup covers Windows and Linux servers and Windows, macOS and Linux endpoints, with file-level or image-based protection to match the workload. Acronis backup protects VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV and supported cloud VMs, with agentless backup where supported and agent-based protection for supported guest systems. Acronis backup protects Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and Oracle databases with application-aware backup and recovery options. Acronis protects Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Microsoft Entra ID data, and recovers business content and supported identity objects after deletion or unwanted changes. Acronis backs up Microsoft Entra ID users, groups, roles, policies and configurations.[6]

Acronis Instant Restore runs supported VMware or Hyper-V virtual machines directly from eligible backups, so users can regain access while full recovery continues. Continuous Data Protection captures changes to selected files and application data on supported Windows systems between scheduled backups. Anti-malware scanning in Acronis checks supported backups for malicious content. Acronis supports immutable storage on supported cloud destinations to retain protected backup copies for the configured period. Acronis protects data with AES-256 encryption in storage and in transit.[6][14]

Acronis backup destinations include local storage, Acronis Cloud, partner-hosted storage and supported public cloud destinations, including Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure. Acronis offers a global network of 50+ data centers, and available locations and services depend on the deployment. Acronis data centers are Tier-IV designed and have certifications including SSAE-18, HIPAA and PCI DSS. Acronis backup plans, alerts and reports are managed in one console, with customer-specific policies and retention applied across multiple tenants. Acronis lets customers add EDR, RMM and disaster recovery to link threat response, patching and recovery without deploying separate agents for each endpoint service.[6][14]

Acronis lets customers run critical systems in Acronis Cloud when an outage or attack takes production offline. Acronis fails over critical servers to Acronis Cloud while the original environment is repaired. Acronis runbooks have ordered steps, parallel actions and completion checks, and the plan is executed from the console when recovery is needed. Acronis runs test failovers in an isolated environment without interrupting production, and automated tests can be scheduled weekly or monthly with screenshot analysis and reported results. Acronis combines disaster recovery with Acronis backup scanning to identify recovery points with detected malware before a point is selected for failover. When production is ready, Acronis uses incremental failback to transfer changed data while the cloud workload continues running. Acronis supports site-to-site VPN, point-to-site access and multisite IPsec connections for recovery across locations.[6][15]

Acronis Cyber Protect offers secure backup and cybersecurity for SMBs, Enterprises, and OT. Acronis provides a single agent and unified console with tools for asset discovery, vulnerability patching, remote monitoring and automated task execution via scripts. Acronis provides SaaS email archiving for Microsoft 365. Acronis Cyber Protect Local enables deployment of a dedicated management server on premises with local-only or hybrid cloud storage. Acronis describes protecting critical data and always-on infrastructure in air-gapped onshore and offshore production facilities.[3][10][16]

Acronis offers three licensing models, chosen for each customer tenant. Each customer tenant can use only one licensing model at a time, and different models can be chosen for different customers. Acronis uses a minimum monthly commitment model, and a commitment tier is selected as part of the agreement. Acronis licenses backup either at a fixed monthly price per protected workload or based on the total amount of storage used. Each service in Acronis Cyber Platform is licensed per device, per user or based on storage consumption. Copia Automation backs up, versions and restores the control programs on PLCs, HMIs and robots, and Acronis restores the servers and workstations while Copia restores the controller code.[1][4][6][7][10][16][17][18]

Acronis on the record

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Acronis full record

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  8. [8]Govern and protect GenAI usage – Acronis GenAI ProtectionAcronis · undated page, accessed October 30, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Acronis Cyber Frame | Virtual infrastructure with built-in cyber protectionAcronis · undated page, accessed October 30, 2026 · Tier A
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  13. [13]Acronis Cyber Platform (formerly Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud): EDR security incident burndown widget reports incorrect close rateAcronis · published April 24, 2026 · Tier A
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Dispel full record

  1. [1]dispel.comDispel · dispel.com · undated page, accessed October 7, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Dispel celebrates 2025 fastest growing cybersecurity company as ot secure remote access demand growsDispel · dispel.com · published March 26, 2025 · Tier A
  3. [3]Press dispel fedramp 20x zero trust governmentDispel · dispel.com · published July 22, 2026 · Tier A
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  6. [6]Dispel Zero Trust Engine | OT Secure Remote Access PlatformDispel · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
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  9. [9]Identity Verification for OT Remote Access | Dispel IdentityDispel · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
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  12. [12]OTFusion — OT Digital Transformation & Multi-Site Consolidation | DispelDispel · undated page, accessed October 31, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Dispel Launches Site Console, Delivering On-Premises OT Remote Access for NERC CIP and Air-Gapped EnvironmentsDispel · published June 17, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Dispel Launches Community Power & Water Program at APPA Cybersecurity & Technology SummitDispel · published September 14, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Dispel Launches Session Forensics, Bringing Real-Time Dynamic Risk Scoring to OT Remote Access as AI Threats EscalateDispel · published May 14, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Dispel Introduces Dispel Zero Trust Engine for OEMs to Standardize Secure Remote Service at ScaleDispel · published October 19, 2026 · Tier A
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