Discover how BlinkOps integrates with Acronis XDR to automate security response, backup remediation, and compliance reporting. Reduce manual effort and respond to threats faster with no-code workflows.
Cybersecurity in 2025 requires keeping a close watch on threats, backing up data, and following regulations. However, the massive number of alerts and tasks can easily overwhelm even experienced teams. In fact, two-thirds of daily security alerts go uninvestigated by SOC analysts. Of those that are reviewed, 83% turn out to be false positives, wasting time and draining resources. On top of that, backup systems need constant attention, and a study revealed that 60% of backups fail when they're most needed. Trying to handle every alert or backup problem manually takes too much time and often leads to mistakes.
This is where automation becomes a game-changer.
BlinkOps integrates directly with Acronis XDR – Acronis’ extended detection and response platform – to handle threats and backup issues at machine speed. Acronis is a leading cybersecurity and data protection company offering integrated solutions for endpoint security and backup. BlinkOps supports multiple out-of-the-box actions for Acronis, making it easy to incorporate Acronis’s alerts and controls into automated workflows.
Below, we break down key workflows that BlinkOps and Acronis XDR tackle together. Each section outlines what the automation does, how it helps, the key benefit, and a step-by-step workflow. From instant threat containment with backup preservation to automated backup remediation and enriched alert routing, see how this integration optimizes your cyber protection strategy.
When Acronis XDR detects a threat on an endpoint, BlinkOps automatically pulls the alert details and orchestrates a swift incident response using Acronis’s capabilities. This workflow leverages Acronis’s unique integration of cybersecurity with backup and recovery – for example, triggering an immediate system backup as part of the response. BlinkOps acts the moment a threat is flagged, containing the issue and preserving data. The workflow automatically isolates the affected endpoint using Acronis controls, initiates a secure backup of the compromised system, and coordinates downstream actions like ticketing and notification. By doing so, it ensures the threat is quarantined and data is safeguarded before any remediation steps proceed. The security team is alerted with all relevant information, but they don’t have to scramble to perform initial containment – it’s already handled in seconds.
1. Acronis XDR identifies a security threat (e.g. malware outbreak or suspicious behavior) on an endpoint and raises an alert.
2. BlinkOps automatically retrieves the alert and extracts key details (affected device, threat type, severity, etc.).
3. The endpoint is immediately isolated using Acronis’s endpoint controls – network access may be cut off or the device quarantined to prevent spread.
4. BlinkOps triggers Acronis to perform an instant backup of the affected system. This secures a recent restore point in case remediation requires wiping or if data gets encrypted by ransomware.
5. The workflow creates an incident ticket in the tracking system and notifies the security team (via email, Slack, etc.) with a summary of the threat and actions taken.
By automating this end-to-end response, your mean time to respond (MTTR) drops dramatically. Incidents that might take hours or days for humans to triage and contain are handled in minutes or less. The threat is contained and a safe backup is captured without waiting for an analyst to react. This not only reduces potential damage but also relieves your team of frantic first-response tasks. Faster containment directly reduces damage – after all, organizations that respond quickly experience far lower breach costs and impact. And by preserving data via backup during the incident, you ensure business continuity even as the issue is resolved. Overall, BlinkOps and Acronis XDR provide a one-two punch of fast incident isolation and data protection, strengthening your resiliency against attacks.
When an Acronis backup job fails, BlinkOps automatically responds to restart the backup and resolve the issue without waiting for manual intervention. Instead of relying on administrators to spot and react to failures, this workflow takes action immediately, helping to reduce backup gaps and maintain data protection. The process begins when Acronis reports a failed backup. BlinkOps checks if the agent on the affected device is online. If the agent is offline, the workflow sends an alert to IT and stops, ensuring that unnecessary retries are avoided. If the agent is online, BlinkOps restarts the failed backup job. This often resolves temporary issues such as network drops or incomplete executions. The retry result is then monitored to determine the next step. If the retry is successful, BlinkOps sends a confirmation and closes the issue. If the retry fails again, the workflow creates a Jira ticket with the device and failure details and alerts the team for further investigation.
1. Acronis sends an alert to BlinkOps indicating that a scheduled backup job has failed for a specific endpoint. The alert includes key details such as the device name, time of failure, and backup job ID.
2. BlinkOps checks whether the Acronis agent on the affected device is currently online and responsive. If the agent is offline, the workflow notifies the IT team via Slack or email and ends the run without retrying the job.
3. If the agent is confirmed to be online, BlinkOps automatically restarts the failed backup using Acronis. This step attempts to resolve temporary or one-off issues that may have caused the failure.
4. After initiating the retry, BlinkOps monitors the backup job to check whether it completes successfully. It waits for a success or failure signal before proceeding.
5. If the retry is successful, BlinkOps sends a confirmation message and marks the issue as resolved. If the retry fails again, the workflow escalates the incident by creating a Jira ticket with full context and sending an alert to the appropriate IT responders for follow-up.
By automating backup failure remediation, you reduce the window during which data is not protected. Problems are addressed immediately rather than waiting for the next human check (which might be too late). This helps organizations uphold their backup reliability commitments and avoid breaching compliance or SLA requirements. In regulated industries like healthcare and finance, a failed backup can have severe repercussions (fines, legal challenges, reputational damage) if not quickly resolved. BlinkOps ensures that backup failures are detected as soon as possible and retried. Your team spends less time on routine troubleshooting, and you maintain a higher success rate for backups, keeping your business continuity and compliance plans solid.
BlinkOps regularly pulls data from Acronis to verify that all endpoints are protected and compliant with your policies. In practice, this means the automation checks which devices are registered in Acronis and their backup/security status. If it finds endpoints that are unprotected – for example, a new laptop that hasn’t been enrolled or a machine that hasn’t reported a recent backup – the workflow takes action to remediate. It can automatically deploy the Acronis agent to missing devices or notify IT to take action. Additionally, the workflow can compile compliance reports that detail your backup and security coverage, ready for auditors or stakeholders. This ensures you maintain 100% endpoint coverage for cyber protection. Unprotected devices (those not backed up or lacking the security agent) are a gap in both security and compliance. BlinkOps closes that gap by identifying and fixing it proactively. The generated reports provide evidence that every system is accounted for, all backups are current, and policies are being enforced. This greatly simplifies compliance audits – instead of manually gathering data from the Acronis console, the information is delivered automatically, showing that your organization meets its data protection and security obligations.
1. BlinkOps runs a scheduled workflow (e.g. daily or weekly) that queries Acronis XDR for a list of all enrolled endpoints and their protection status. It may use Acronis APIs to fetch a device inventory and recent backup/antivirus statuses.
2. The automation compares the results against your expected inventory or policy standards. Any unprotected or non-compliant devices are flagged. For instance, if a device hasn’t backed up in over X days, or a new device is detected in Active Directory but not in Acronis, it’s identified as a gap.
3. For each unprotected endpoint, BlinkOps initiates an agent deployment (using Acronis’s deployment tools or an RMM tool integration). This installs the Acronis Cyber Protect agent on the device and starts its backup/security coverage. If an agent is present but backups are out-of-date, BlinkOps can trigger a backup job for that device or send a notification to the owner to leave the machine online.
4. After enforcing coverage, the workflow generates a compliance report summarizing the state of all endpoints. For example, it might produce a CSV or dashboard listing every device and a pass/fail on compliance (protected vs. not protected).
5. The report is automatically shared with stakeholders, such as via email to IT managers or uploaded to a compliance portal. Key metrics like “% of endpoints protected” or “number of devices with successful recent backups” are highlighted. Any notable remediation actions taken (e.g. agents deployed to 3 new devices this week) can be logged for audit trail purposes.
With this automation in place, you can be confident that no device is left unprotected. BlinkOps continually sweeps your environment for compliance, much like a security guard doing rounds. If anything is amiss, it’s corrected or brought to your attention immediately. This means when audit time comes, you already have up-to-date reports showing full coverage and can demonstrate adherence to your data protection policies. It also frees your team from the tedious work of manual auditing and agent deployment. In essence, BlinkOps ensures that your use of Acronis XDR is always optimized and compliant – every endpoint, all the time – without the usual administrative overhead.
Not all alerts are created equal, and not all belong in the same queue. This workflow intercepts incoming alerts from Acronis (whether they are security alerts or backup alerts) and enriches them with additional context before routing them to the right personnel or system. BlinkOps can automatically add information like the affected device’s owner or customer details (crucial for MSPs managing multiple clients), recent backup history or security incident history for that device, and any relevant SLA or priority tags. Based on this enrichment, the alert is then prioritized and sent to the appropriate technician or team. By the time a human sees the alert, it’s already packed with context – no need to dig through multiple systems to figure out what’s going on. For example, knowing that an alert comes from a CEO’s laptop or an important server will immediately communicate urgency. Checking the backup history might reveal that this system hasn’t been backed up in a week, raising the priority of a failure alert. BlinkOps can also determine if an alert relates to an ongoing incident (maybe similar alerts are already being handled) and avoid redundant noise. Finally, routing ensures the alert goes directly to the person or team best suited to handle it (for instance, backup issues to the storage team, malware alerts to the SOC, VIP user issues to a specialized support team).
1. An alert is generated from Acronis (e.g., a malware detection, a failed backup, or an agent going offline). Instead of going straight to a generic queue, it first goes to a BlinkOps automation trigger.
2. BlinkOps enriches the alert with additional data. It might look up the device or user in a CMDB or directory to pull customer name, department, or owner info. It also queries Acronis for recent activity on that device (last backup time, recent threats, etc.). All this info is appended to the alert details.
3. The workflow checks the device’s backup history and the relevant service level agreement or priority class. For example, if this machine has a platinum support SLA or has had multiple recent failures, that will elevate its priority. Conversely, an alert on a test machine with no critical data might be tagged as low priority automatically.
4. Based on the enriched context, BlinkOps sets the alert’s priority level (e.g., P1, P2, etc., or high/medium/low). An urgent security incident on a production server might become a P1, whereas a minor issue on a non-critical device might be P3. This prioritization is consistent and rules-based, reducing the chance of human oversight.
5. Finally, the enriched, prioritized alert is routed to the appropriate technician or team. For instance, BlinkOps can create a ticket in the IT service desk system and assign it to the “Backup Team” if it’s a backup failure, or to the “Security Incident Response” queue if it’s a malware alert. It can also notify specific people (such as the account manager for that client, if you’re an MSP, or the on-call engineer if it’s after hours).
With this workflow, your alert management becomes far more efficient and effective. Instead of a flood of raw alerts, your team sees fewer, richer notifications that already tell the story of what’s wrong and who is affected. This context means faster triage – providing context with alerts gives responders actionable insights and leads to faster incident resolution. Moreover, intelligent routing means the people with the right expertise get the alert immediately, which avoids delay from reassignment.
Integrating BlinkOps with Acronis XDR to automate these workflows delivers powerful outcomes for any IT or security program. It transforms how threats are handled, how backups are managed, and how compliance is maintained on a daily basis. By letting BlinkOps handle the heavy lifting, you ensure that tasks are executed consistently, quickly, and 24/7 – whether it’s 3 AM or the middle of a busy workday, the important stuff never waits.
With automated incident workflows, threats are detected and contained far faster than any manual process could achieve. This dramatically reduces your exposure and potential damage from attacks. Your team’s mean time to recovery improves, and you stop attackers before they can escalate. At the same time, automating backup remediation means your data protection stays reliable – backup jobs don’t silently fail and put you at risk. BlinkOps continuously watches and fixes issues, so you maintain a strong business continuity posture.
By adopting these automated workflows, organizations can elevate their cyber protection from reactive to proactive. Whether you’re an enterprise IT team or a service provider managing multiple clients, BlinkOps + Acronis XDR provides a robust, no-code automation solution to keep your environment secure, resilient, and compliant – all in one integrated approach. It’s time to let automation do the hard work, so you can focus on moving your business forward.
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