Absolute Security Blog

While we have a talented, hard-working team of investigators at Absolute, let’s hope we won’t have so much work to do in 2022!

For districts to better manage here-to-stay 1:1 programs, Absolute has introduced Absolute Resilience for Student Devices.

When planning for 2022 budgets, many organizations will build in money for new devices. Laptops often represent a sizable percentage of that budget for many, and no one wants to have to factor in added cost for stolen devices.

NEW! Absolute Application Persistence-as-a-Service (APaaS) allows any ISV to leverage Absolute’s firmware-embedded Application Persistence capabilities in their own software.

As part of the Absolute 7.18 product release, we have made significant enhancements to our Device Wipe and File Delete capabilities, giving organizations the ability to streamline data sanitization across their devices.

We canvassed the opinion of 400 IT and security leaders in a bid to better quantify and understand how organizations are preparing for 2022. Here's what they had to say.

There are always going to be pros and cons when employees work from home versus working from an office. From an IT and security perspective, the distributed nature of today’s workforce has opened up a pandora’s box of potential issues.

The Absolute Investigations Team has been working with Absolute customers to recover stolen laptops since 1995. In September, our investigators celebrated the significant milestone of 55,000 recovered devices!

K-12 schools face rising cyber threats, from ransomware to data breaches. Discover 5 top strategies to protect student data and secure your network.

Unlock better security for your remote workforce with enhanced geolocation tracking and customizable geofencing, helping you stay ahead of evolving risks.

September is National Insider Threat Awareness Month and the goal of this third-annual, month-long designation is to bring greater awareness to insider threats and help organizations and their employees mitigate potentially damaging issues early on.

For the many schools still struggling to meet the challenges of remote learning, the Federal Communications Commission announced a second window to submit projects for coverage under the Emergency Connectivity Fund.

As K-12 schools shift to remote learning, student data privacy and endpoint security have become even more critical. Discover how IT teams can protect against cyber threats.

Security teams need the ability to perform regular data risk assessments to ensure any sensitive data stored on endpoints is never exposed. With Absolute Erase, data can be remotely identified and secured.

Schools need to manage a scattered device fleet and keep on top of security updates remotely, especially if your district relies on CARES or ARP Act funding. Absolute Device Groups allows IT to organize their devices into logical groupings.

Learn how customized endpoint data collection enhances visibility and security for remote work, helping IT teams meet specific operational and security needs.

Part of a laptop's attraction is its portability. IT's challenge is to keep track of them. Absolute customers benefit from an undeletable digital tether, no matter where the device is, and the Absolute Investigations Team.

Leveraging anonymized data from over 10,000 schools and districts, the Absolute Endpoint Risk Report: Education Edition illustrates how distance learning has been fully embraced – but that critical efficiency and security gaps remain.

Absolute has been named a Top 100 Software Company in 2021 by The Software Report.

Remote work has greatly contributed to the rise of insider threats. Absolute customers benefit from an undeletable digital tether, no matter where the endpoint is, and the Absolute Investigations Team.