Supported Cyber Protect features by operating system

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

Windows: Windows 7 and later, Windows Server 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 also support the Cyber Protect features, but have not been tested.
macOS: 10.13.x and later (only Antivirus & Antimalware protection is supported).

Important The Cyber Protect features are only supported for machines on which a protection agent is installed. For virtual machines protected in agentless mode, for example by Agent for Hyper-V, Agent for VMware, or Agent for Scale Computing, only backup is supported.


Cyber Protect features	Windows	Linux	macOS
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
Acronis Anti-malware protection
Ransomware detection based on process behavior (AI-based)	Yes	No	No
Cryptomining processes detection	Yes	No	No
Real-time antimalware protection	Yes	No	Yes
Automatic recovery of affected files from the local cache	Yes	No	No
Self-protection for Acronis backup files	Yes	No	No
Self-protection for Acronis software	Yes	No	No
Static analysis for portable executable files	Yes	No	Yes*
External drives protection (HDD, flash drives, SD cards)	Yes	No	No
Network folder protection	Yes	No	No
Server-side protection	Yes	No	No
Protection of Zoom, WebEx, Microsoft Teams, and other remote work protection	Yes	No	No
On-demand antimalware scanning	Yes	No	Yes
Scan archive files	Yes	No	Yes
File/folder exclusions	Yes	No	Yes**
Processes exclusions	Yes	No	No
Corporate-wide whitelist	Yes	No	Yes
Behavior detection	Yes	No	No
Quarantine	Yes	No	Yes
URL filtering (http/https)	Yes	No	No
Windows Defender Antivirus management	Yes	No	No
Microsoft Security Essentials management	Yes	No	No
Vulnerability assessment	Yes	No	No
Patch management
Patch auto-approval	Yes	No	No
Manual patch installation	Yes	No	No
Automatic patch installation scheduling	Yes	No	No
Fail-safe patching: backup of machine before installing patches as part of a protection plan	Yes	No	No
Cancelation of a machine restart if a backup is running	Yes	No	No
Data protection map
Scanning machines to find unprotected files	Yes	No	No
Unprotected locations overview	Yes	No	No
Protective action in Data protection map	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
Scanning of encrypted backups	Yes	No	No
Scanning of disk backups in the local storage, network shares, and Acronis Cloud Storage	Yes	No	No
Safe recovery
Antimalware scanning with Acronis Antivirus & Antimalware protection during the recovery process	Yes	No	No
Remote desktop
Connection via HTML5 based client	Yes	No	No
Connection via native Windows RDP client	Yes	No	No
Remote wipe	Yes***	No	No
Cyber Protect Monitor	Yes	No	Yes

* On macOS, static analysis for portable executable files is only supported for scheduled scans.

** On macOS, you can only use exclusions to specify files and folders that will not be scanned by real-time protection or scheduled scans.

*** Remote wipe is only available for machines running Windows 10