From Acronis to Druva, Without Missing a Mission

A hard deadline for every federal Acronis deployment

Every federal civilian agency running Acronis has until January 27, 2027, to get it out. On October 28, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security published an order directing agencies to stop buying Acronis products and remove them within 180 days. With earlier orders from the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Defense, Acronis is now excluded across federal buyers.

The order doesn't cite a breach. It cites supply chain risk and the root-level access that backup tools hold.

The bigger risk now is the switch itself. A rushed swap can leave systems unprotected, cut off access to years of backups, or trade one trust question for another. Done right, it's a chance to move to a cyber resilience platform built for government from day one.

The impact reaches past federal agencies

Civilian agencies face the hard deadline, but the replacement cycle could also affect:

• Federal systems integrators, who run replacement projects and carry flow-down contract clauses
• Defense contractors, already working under the DoD exclusion and CMMC 2.0 requirements
• Managed service providers that support agencies and contractors
• State and local governments and schools, which often follow federal security signals

Private sector organizations aren't covered by the order. But government contractors and companies that handle sensitive data are often held to similar standards by auditors, insurers, and boards, so a contingency plan now beats a scramble later.

What to look for in a replacement

Deadline pressure pushes teams toward whatever deploys fastest. Speed matters, but so does a replacement that won't raise trust questions of its own. These are four key items to consider:

• Authorization: a current FedRAMP Authorization you can verify on the FedRAMP Marketplace
• Sovereignty: backup data that stays in US government cloud regions
• Access: an architecture that limits what the vendor can see, since privileged access is the core concern in the order
• Speed: deployment without new hardware, so you can make the date

How Druva meets the bar

Druva is a fully managed SaaS cyber resilience platform. Agencies including NASA rely on Druva today. Here's what that looks like against the criteria above:

We also publish our security program openly. The Druva Trust Center lists our attestations, including SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, GovRAMP, NIST 800-171 Rev. 3, FIPS 140-2, and HIPAA, and lets your security team request our architecture and whitepaper for due diligence.

Learn more about how Druva protects Azure Government workloads.

Druva vs. Acronis at a glance

The federal orders cite supply chain risk, not a breach, so this comparison sticks to public facts about eligibility, architecture, and access.

A migration path that keeps you covered

The riskiest moment in any switch is the overlap, when the old tool is leaving, and the new one hasn’t completed the full QA cycle. We recommend five steps:

1. Inventory what Acronis protects today: servers, endpoints, Microsoft 365 and cloud workloads, plus the retention rules for each.
2. Stand up Druva in parallel and start new backups right away. With nothing to install on premises, this takes days, not months.
3. Identify legacy backups you must keep for records retention, legal hold, or audit. Restore and re-protect them in Druva before the old tool is removed.
4. Run restore tests on your most critical systems.
5. Decommission Acronis before January 27, 2027, and record the removal for your compliance file.

Druva helps meet the Acronis migration deadline

You don't have to run this migration alone, and you don't inherit new infrastructure when it's done.

• Guided migration: Druva Professional Services or a Druva partner plans the move with you, from inventory and retention mapping through parallel runs and cutover.
• Fully managed service: Druva runs, patches, scales, and monitors the platform 24/7, so your team manages policies, not servers.
• Secure SaaS environment: backups sit in an immutable, air-gapped environment in AWS GovCloud (US), isolated from your production systems.
• No vendor access to your data: Druva is built for customer-only access to customer data, which speaks directly to the privileged access concern behind the federal orders.

Most customers moving from a legacy backup tool complete the switch in days or weeks, depending on environment size. Let me share a couple of examples of customers that benefited from Druva’s easy-to-migrate, adopt, and use products.

• National Cancer Institute: After confirming FedRAMP compliance, NCI quickly rolled Druva out across the organization, protecting staff devices whose data had been vulnerable until backed up, and global deduplication cut backup bandwidth by up to 80%. Read the NCI story.
• Maximus: This government services provider replaced legacy on-premises backup software and offsite tape within a four-month window. It now protects more than 1,000 compute and database instances with 3x lower TCO and restores files 6x faster. Read the Maximus story.

Working with a systems integrator or managed service provider on the replacement? Druva works with partners so your team gets one plan rather than two vendors pointing at each other.

You can also see how Druva supports Microsoft 365 GCC High and read our FedRAMP solution brief and CMMC 2.0 Level 2 brief.

Start your Acronis to Druva migration today

Druva gives you a FedRAMP Authorized, government-ready cyber resilience platform you can deploy in days, with a clear plan for the data you already have.

Visit the public sector page of the Druva site to learn more. Request a demo with Druva's public sector team to map your Acronis replacement today.