Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for MSPs and IT Leaders in an Extortion-First Cyberthreats Era, with Acronis

Mike Gutierrez of GoTo speaks with James Abercrombie, Acronis’ Global Community Lead, about business continuity and disaster preparedness, amidst the world’s most alarming cyberthreats facing MSPs and IT teams. Together, they dig into Acronis' latest Cyberthreats Report, which is based on telemetry from over 1M unique endpoints, highlighting ransomware’s move to extortion-first tactics, increased exploitation of legitimate tools for lateral movement, control plane vulnerabilities, and the increased operational integration of AI in cyber attacks. James emphasizes that cyber risk is now defined by more of a trust failure, and the need for business continuity planning to account for data exposure, regulatory impact, and reputational risk, not just system restoration. The conversation covers managed service providers as high-value targets due to RMM access, supply chain attacks, data classification, segmentation, and incident response that includes workflow automation to reduce human error. Connect with GoTo: https://www.linkedin.com/company/GoTo Learn about GoTo: https://www.goto.com Follow James Abercrombie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyberbeard Connect with Acronis: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acronis Read Acronis' Cyberthreats Report: https://www.acronis.com/en/resource-center/resource/acronis-cyberthreats-report-h2-2025 Learn about the LogMeIn Resolve Data Protection Suite powered by Acronis: https://www.logmein.com/features/resolve/bdr-software