Acronis and Intel team up to deliver AI-driven endpoint threat detection

Acronis and Intel have announced Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud’s availability with AI PCs powered by Intel Core Ultra processors, aiming to bring automated threat detection and remediation to endpoint devices.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, a SaaS-based, multi-tenant platform, delivers protection from cyberthreats, including next-generation antimalware, email security, data loss prevention (DLP), and endpoint and extended detection and response (EDR /XDR). 

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud uses AI to detect and remediate threats in real-time at the endpoint, analysing behavioral patterns to uncover advanced attacks, including ransomware, zero-day exploits, and fileless malware that traditional tools might miss.

On Intel Core Ultra-powered devices, the solution leverages OpenVINO to offload heavy AI tasks such as behavioral heuristics and anomaly scoring to the processor’s neural processing unit (NPU).

Offloading AI-driven behavioral detection from the CPU to the NPU within Intel Core Ultra processors reduces CPU load by up to 92%, based on Acronis' internal performance testing. 

Acronis president Gaidar Magdanurov said cyber protection must be natively integrated and AI-powered to address modern cyber threats.

“Our collaboration with Intel empowers MSPs and corporate IT to deliver real-time security at the endpoint with minimal impact to system performance, protecting the productivity of users," he said.

"Our collaboration with Intel takes the headache out of IT security for users and IT administrators.”