Supported Cyber Protect features by operating system

The Cyber Protect features are supported on the following operating systems:

Windows: Windows 7 and later, Windows 2008 R2 and later.
Windows Defender Antivirus management is supported on Windows 8.1 and later.
Linux: CentOS 7.x, CentOS 8.0, Virtuozzo 7.x, Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 3.x.
Other Linux distributions and versions might be supported, but have not been tested.
macOS: 10.13.x and later (only Antivirus & Antimalware protection is supported).

Limitation: Currently, only the backup of virtual machines at a hypervisor level (agentless) is supported.


Cyber Protect features	Windows	Linux	macOS
Forensic backup
Collecting memory dump	Yes	No	No
Snapshot of running processes	Yes	No	No
Forensic backup for machines with one drive without reboot	Yes	No	No
Notarization of local image forensic backup	Yes	No	No
Notarization of cloud image forensic backup	Yes	No	No
Continuous data protection (CDP)
CDP for files and folders	Yes	No	No
CDP for changed files via application tracking	Yes	No	No
Autodiscovery and remote installation
Network-based discovery	Yes	No	No
Active Directory-based discovery	Yes	No	No
Template-based discovery (importing machines from a file)	Yes	No	No
Manual adding of devices	Yes	No	No
Active Protection
Ransomware detection	Yes	No	No
Cryptomining processes detection	Yes	No	No
Process Injects detection	Yes	No	No
Automatic recovery of affected files from the local cache	Yes	No	No
Self-defense for Acronis backup files	Yes	No	No
Self-defense for Acronis software	Yes	No	No
Trusted/blocked process management	Yes	No	No
Processes/folders exclusions	Yes	No	No
Ransomware detection based on a process behavior (AI-based)	Yes	No	No
Cryptomining detection based on a process behavior	Yes	No	No
External drives protection (HDD, flash drives, SD cards)	Yes	No	No
Network folder protection	Yes	No	No
Server-side protection	Yes	No	No
Antivirus & Antimalware protection
Fully-integrated Active Protection functionality	Yes	No	No
Real-time anti-malware protection	Yes	No	Yes
Static analysis for portable executable files	Yes	No	Yes*
On-demand anti-malware scanning	Yes	No	Yes
Network folder protection	Yes	No	No
Server-side protection	Yes	No	No
Scan of archive files	Yes	No	Yes
Scan of removable drives	Yes	No	Yes
Scan of only new and changed files	Yes	No	Yes
File/folder exclusions	Yes	No	Yes**
Processes exclusions	Yes	No	No
Behavioral analysis engine	Yes	No	No
Quarantine	Yes	No	Yes
Quarantine auto clean-up	Yes	No	Yes
URL filtering (http/https)	Yes	No	No
Corporate-wide whitelist	Yes	No	Yes
Windows Defender Antivirus management	Yes	No	No
Microsoft Security Essentials management	Yes	No	No
Registering and managing Antivirus & Antimalware protection via Windows Security Center	Yes	No	No
Vulnerability and configuration assessment
Vulnerability assessment for Windows	Yes	No	No
Vulnerability assessments of Cyber Infrastructure (Linux)***	No	Yes	No
Vulnerability assessment for 3rd-party Windows applications	Yes	No	No
Configuration assessment of Cyber Infrastructure	Yes	No	No
Patch management
Patch auto-approval	Yes	No	No
Patch auto-installation	Yes	No	No
Patch testing	Yes	No	No
Manual patch installation	Yes	No	No
Patch scheduling	Yes	No	No
Fail-safe patching: backup of machine before installing patches as part of protection plan	Yes	No	No
Data protection map
Adjustable definition of important files	Yes	No	No
Scanning machines to find unprotected files	Yes	No	No
Unprotected locations overview	Yes	No	No
Ability to start the protection action from the Data protection map widget (Protect all files action)	Yes	No	No
Disk health
AI-based HDD and SSD health control	Yes	No	No
Smart protection plans based on Acronis Cyber Protection Operations Center (CPOC) alerts
Threat feed	Yes	No	No
Remediation wizard	Yes	No	No
Backup scanning
Backup scanning plan: scanning of image backups for malware in cloud	Yes	No	No
Malware scan of encrypted backups	Yes	No	No
Safe recovery
Anti-malware scanning with Antivirus & Antimalware protection during the recovery process	Yes	No	No
Safe recovery for encrypted backups	Yes	No	No
Remote desktop connection
Inbound connection via HTML5-based client	Yes	No	No
Inbound connection via native Windows RDP client	Yes	No	No
Outbound connection via HTML5-based client	Yes	Yes	Yes
Outbound connection via native Windows RDP client	Yes****	No	Yes****
Management options
Upsell scenarios to promote Cyber Protect editions	Yes	Yes	Yes
Web-based centralized and remote management console	Yes	Yes	Yes

* Static analysis for portable executable files is supported only for scheduled scans on macOS.

** File/folder exclusions are only supported for the case when you specify files and folders that will not be scanned by real-time protection or scheduled scans on macOS.

*** The vulnerability assessment depends on the availability of official security advisories for specific distribution, for example https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/, https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/, and others.

**** The Desktop Connection client and the Microsoft Remote Desktop application must be installed on the machine that initiates the connection. See Remote access (RDP and HTML5 clients).