Acronis Updating activEcho and MobilEcho

Acronis Intenational GmbH released activEcho 3.0 and mobilEcho 5.0, providing management combined with simplicity for file access, synchronization, and sharing on mobile devices.

These two products include the Acronis Policy Engine, which provides granular management capabilities to create security policies and ensures control and compliance on all devices.

Employees are bringing their own devices to work and many others use corporate devices off-premises. Gartner predicts this trend to keep increasing with 38% of companies expected to stop providing devices to workers by 2016 and half by 2017.

As enterprise IT continues to lose control over which devices are accessing information and where, they need to remain assured that files will not be exposed to leaks or theft. mobilEcho 5.0 encrypts all files on mobile devices, sets expiration dates for file access, and logs users’ activity. IT can use activEcho 3.0 to enhance their control by crafting security settings and privileges, so specific employees or groups have access and can share all content or a single file.

“The National Institute of Health is a publicly-funded medical research organization where they need to support collaboration among researchers, both between the many Institutes and Centers, as well as with those who work at research centers outside the NIH,” said J David Hester, PhD, solutions architect, LCG Systems Inc. who works with multiple NIH centers and institutes on data security. “mobilEcho and activEcho not only give them the most secure and audit-capable solution that meets their Federal and internal security requirements, it is also one that is so simple, the doctors and other users require no training. It makes secure bring your own device (BYOD) a reality for the NIH.”

Consumer solutions don’t deliver the required level of control and security, and mobile device management solutions only provide control over the device and applications, not the files. Additionally, VPN solutions neither allow users to work offline nor securely share files with partners.

Both solutions are deployed on-premise giving IT control. The two products go beyond the limitations of MDM solutions and grant access to files from mobile devices. The policy engine itself gives the flexibility to implement security and management policies appropriate to the needs of enterprise.

“The workplace has fundamentally changed, and employees are working from home, on the road, and everywhere else,” said Anders Lofgren, VP of product management, Acronis. “Embracing these trends, IT professionals can use mobilEcho 5.0 and activEcho 3.0 to enable their colleagues to work from any device by providing secure access, sharing and syncing of files and data, under a new and easy-to-use Acronis Policy Engine. With these new products, it’s even easier for IT professionals to help their employees stay productive, without losing the security and control that enterprise requires.”

mobilEcho 5.0

It’s a Mobile File Management solution to turn mobile device into a business platform by equipping enterprise with the security and management granularity it needs. It offers in-app editing of Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations, FIPS 140-2 certified encryption module and support for Office 365 hosted SharePoint sites.

Features in mobilEcho 5.0: