DHS Orders Acronis Products Out of Civilian Federal Systems: Exclusion Order Published in the Federal Register, 180 Days to Remove
The Department of Homeland Security's exclusion and removal order covering Swiss cybersecurity company Acronis was published in the Federal Register on October 30 (91 FR 68528, Docket No. DHS-2026-0694). The order excludes Acronis AG and all affiliated entities, as well as any products directly or indirectly supplied by them, from federal civilian agency procurements, and requires agencies to remove all Acronis products from their information technology systems.
The order was signed by Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin on July 31, filed for public inspection on October 28, and published on October 30. Civilian agencies must remove Acronis products from their systems within 180 days, and Acronis and its affiliates are barred from ongoing and future procurements.
A summary of risks in the order states that Acronis's cyber and backup tools have privileged, or root, access to customer security systems and present significant risk to U.S. government information systems. Such orders are issued under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018, on the recommendation of the Federal Acquisition Security Council.
It is not the first such order against Acronis: in 2025 the Director of National Intelligence excluded the company from intelligence community procurements and systems, the first order of its kind under the law, and the General Services Administration removed Acronis products from its purchasing schedules.
DHS used the same authority last week against another company: an order published on October 20 requires civilian agencies to stop procuring and remove products from Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek. Acronis has not won a direct federal contract since fiscal 2016, but its products circulate through resellers and partners, making their actual footprint hard to track.
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Source: Federal Register notice of the DHS exclusion and removal order, October 30, 2026 (91 FR 68528)
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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