Security settings

To configure the general protection settings for Cyber Protection, go to Settings > Protection in the service console.

Automatic updates for components

Cyber Protection uses peer-to-peer technology for component updates to minimize network bandwidth traffic. You can choose one or more dedicated agents that will download updates from the Internet and distribute them among other agents in the network as peer-to-peer agents.

By default the Use this agent to download and distribute patches and updates option is disabled for agents, this means that all of the registered agents check for the latest updates and distribute them. If a user turns on the Use this agent to download and distribute patches and updates option for a certain agent, then this agent receives the Updater role and all other agents use this one for checking updates and their distribution. You must ensure that the agents with the Updater role are powerful enough, with high-speed stable Internet access, and they have enough disk space.

The update workflow is the following:

  1. The agent with the Updater role checks by schedule the index file provided by the service provider to update the core components.
  2. The agent with the Updater role starts to download and distribute updates to all agents.

To assign the Updater role to a protection agent

  1. In the service console, go to Settings > Agents.
  2. Select the machine to which you want to assign the Updater role.
  3. Click Details, and then enable the Use this agent to download and distribute patches and updates option.

Updating the Cyber Protection definitions by schedule

On the Schedule tab, you can set up the schedule for automatic update of the Cyber Protection definitions for each of the components:

  • Antimalware
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Patch management

Schedule type:

  • Daily – define on which days of a week to update definitions.

    Start at – you can select at what time to update definitions.

  • Hourly – define more granular hourly schedule for definition updates.

    Run every – define the periodicity for running definition updates.

    From ... To – define a specific time range within which the automatic definition updates will be performed.

Updating the Cyber Protection definitions on-demand

To update Cyber Protection Definitions for a particular machine on-demand

  1. In the service console, go to Settings > Agents.
  2. Select the machines on which you want to update the Cyber Protection definitions and click Update definitions.

Cache storage

Location of cached data:

  • On Windows machines: C:\ProgramData\Acronis\Agent\var\atp-downloader\Cache
  • On Linux machines: /opt/acronis/var/atp-downloader/Cache
  • On MacOS machines: /Library/Application Support/Acronis/Agent/var/atp-downloader/Cache

In Outdated update files and patch management data, specify after what period to remove cached data.

Maximum cache storage size (GB) for agents:

  • Updater role – define storage size for cache on the machines with the Updater role.
  • Other roles – define storage size for cache on other machines.

Remote connection

Click Remote desktop connection, to enable the remote connection to machines via RDP client or HTML5 client. If it is disabled, then the Connect via RDP client / Connect via HTML5 client options will be hidden in the service console, and users will not be able to connect to machines remotely. This option affects all users of your organization.

Click Share remote desktop connection, to enable sharing the remote connection with users. As a result, the new option Share remote connection will appear in the right menu when you select a machine, and you will be able to generate a link to be shared with users for accessing the remote machine.