SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Acronis, Inc. (http://www.acronis.com/ ), the technological leader in storage management solutions, announced its Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 8.0 has been upgrade for the enterprise environment to protect corporate workstations and servers.

The new version, named Acronis Privacy Expert 8.0 Corporate, which begins shipping tomorrow, is optimized for the enterprise environment and includes a centralized management console, the ability to deploy agents to networked PCs, and the ability to run the various antispyware and data security applications on remote PCs. Among other features are spyware shield for proactive protection and automatic spyware definition updates.

"Identity theft and financial fraud are becoming epidemic," wrote Avivah Litan, vice president and research director in Gartner Research, and Ray Wagner, research vice president in the Gartner Information Security Strategies group, in a 2004 report entitled "The Growing Threat of Online Attacks on Consumers." Although these kinds of crimes have been around for ages, the Internet has provided criminals with a wide variety of new, online methods for swindling unsuspecting victims.

"Spyware is among the most destructive applications that can be introduced to a corporate system," said Max Tsypliaev, CEO of Acronis. "It can compromise intellectual property, put corporate databases at risk and opens a company to significant legal culpability. Having a proactive method of defeating it before it damages a user's system is a most effective way of protecting your corporate information."

"Both last year and this year, PC Magazine saw fit to honor Acronis' consumer version of this product, Privacy Expert Suite 7.0 and 8.0, with its Editor's Choice Awards," said Stephen Lawton, Acronis director of marketing. "Corporate IT directors have third-party validation that the core product is solid and can easily fit into an overall corporate security program."

About Acronis

Acronis offers storage management solutions that are technically advanced for mission-critical applications but easy to use. The company provides disaster recovery, backup and restore, partitioning, boot management, privacy, data migration, and other storage management products for enterprises, corporations and consumers of any qualification. Acronis has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia and sells its products through retail outlets, resellers and on the Web. For additional information, please visit http://www.acronis.com/ or contact Director of Marketing Stephen Lawton at media@acronis.com.

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CONTACT: Stephen Lawton of Acronis, +1-650-875-7593, ext. 124, or
stephen.lawton@acronis.com

Web site: http://www.acronis.com/

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