Acronis Cyber Protect: protection plans, immutable backups and recovery
For technicians who manage Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud: tenants and roles in the Management Portal, protection plans and modules, backup schemes, schedules and retention rules, encryption, immutable storage, Active Protection, vulnerability assessment and patch management, validation, and recovering machines with the console, bootable media and Universal Restore.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 55 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Acronis Cyber Protect
Skills you'll practise
- Build a protection plan from modules and apply it to the right workloads
- Choose a backup scheme and retention rules and predict how many backups will remain
- Explain backup encryption and immutable storage (Governance and Compliance modes) and their consequences
- Run the patch management workflow from vulnerability assessment to installation
- Choose between console recovery, bootable media and Universal Restore for a failed machine
- Assign tenant roles with least privilege and keep two-factor authentication in place
Course outline
- 1.Acronis Cyber Protect: protection plans, immutable backups and recoveryVideo · 2 min
- 2.Tenants, roles and protection plansLesson · 17 min
- 3.Backup schemes, retention, encryption and immutabilityLesson · 19 min
- 4.Security modules, validation and recoveryLesson · 19 min
- 5.Acronis Cyber Protect: protection plans, immutable backups and recovery: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 19 questions
- 6.Final exam12 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Protection plans and modules
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Creating a protection plan
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Built-in protection plans
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Backup schemes
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Backup schedule
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Retention rules
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Configuring retention rules
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Encryption
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Configuring encryption in the protection plan
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Immutable storage
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Enabling immutable storage
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Accessing deleted backups in immutable storage
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Active Protection
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Active Protection settings (action on detection, self-protection)
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud user guide: Vulnerability assessment
And 9 more.
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