Acronis SCS Cyber Backup 12.5 Hardened Edition Certified FIPS 140-2

Acronis SCS announced its hardened backup and disaster recovery solution has earned Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validation.

Designed as a backup software for federal government and utilities, Cyber Backup 12.5 Hardened Edition is also certified by Common Criteria and is a full-disk image backup and disaster recovery point solution available on the Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List (DoDIN APL).

The company‘ federal government approved backup software is built to meet the security and usability needs of sensitive air gapped, ‘no internet’ networks, including weapons testing sites, development labs, and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and industrial control systems. In earning FIPS 140-2 validation, the firm verifies the hardened full-disk image backup solution has gone through testing and review by government labs and has met requirements for military-grade encryption. These include improved algorithms and cryptographic module specifications to protect the US public sector’s sensitive data, as well as maximum entropy obtained via hardware based random number key generation.

“With news of the SolarWinds hack still top of mind, the need for tighter security within sensitive government networks has never been more urgent,” says John Zanni, CEO. “Because it never makes outbound connections over the internet back to a home server, our FIPS validated hardened backup software both minimizes government and critical infrastructure’s network attack surfaces and maximizes peace of mind.”

Through its zero-connectivity design, the product provides IT administrators with actionable, real-time threat detection, thereby eliminating risk from backdoor and software supply chain exploits.