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Protect against online security threats and infections

Unless employees are well trained and very careful, one inadvertent click can allow threat actors to exploit an employee’s device and gain a foothold to move laterally across the corporate network. Organizations need to protect against active threats, block access to inappropriate websites, and to prevent unauthorized data egress from employees’ devices. The Absolute Secure Web Gateway Service add-on module (powered by Ericom) helps address these challenges and rounds out Absolute's Mobile Security Service Edge capabilities.

Highlights

Enhance end user productivity with a fully secure, native browsing experience for all – mobile, deskless, remote, and hybrid workers.

Protect users and your organization from sophisticated viruses, malware, credential theft, social engineering, and zero-day attacks.

Defend against data loss or leakage.

Simplify IT operations with deep policy integration and incremental protection levels.

Tight integration with Absolute Insights™ for Network to report on overall impact of security policies and actions, data loss and prevention, browser sessions, file transfers, and user feedback.

Works with all common HTML5 browsers.

Protect against Web-based threats

Guard company data and enforce security policies

Scan for the presence of malware, including worms, Trojan horses, and spyware.
Block malware (including zero-day threats) from reaching endpoints and networks by rendering websites in isolated containers located on remote servers far from the endpoint.
Enable a secure, Zero Trust approach to Web browsing that can now be extended to both mobile/deskless workers as well as hybrid workers – protecting them from risky or unverifiable websites and malicious content.
Disarm and reconstruct content from file downloads.
Prevent inadvertent uploads of sensitive information to maintain compliance, protect intellectual property, and reduce overall risk exposure.

Assure a frictionless end user experience

Tailor security levels for individuals and groups

Tight integration with the Absolute Secure Access policy capability allows to establish rules quickly and easily to users or groups for most productive end user experience.
Adapt security levels for individuals and groups based on risk level, workflows, location, network, and other parameters.
Five incremental policy levels gradually increase protection.
Optimized for mobile environments.

Drill down to active and prevented threats

Provide real-time information for IT and security teams

Summarize the overall impact of security policies and actions, data loss and prevention, browser sessions, file transfers, and user feedback.
Detailed report panels list granular information such as unsafe session history by user, device, and URLs; data loss prevention activity logs across connected clients; file transfers; and client webpage visits.
Fine-tune policies for users and groups to maximize productivity and streamline user experience.

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Mitigate risk and strengthen your compliance posture with Absolute

Assure security efficacy via self-healing
Streamlined collection of compliance evidence
Critical application availability and uptime for incident response
Reduced mean time to response
Ease of enforcement of security configurations at scale
Improved risk score

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Enable the secure device lifecycle

Reduce complexities across endpoints, applications, and network access that are causing inefficiencies and risk exposure.

High visibility from the endpoint
Reduced number of helpdesk tickets
Reduced number of rogue devices and apps
Improved business-specific KPIs
Vendor consolidation
Real-time telemetry from devices & network

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Maximize your workforce’s productivity - wherever they do their work

Don't let security be a barrier to an optimized employee experience.

Provide always-on, work-from-anywhere capabilities for your workforce
Optimized user experience and uptime
Reduced management infrastructure
Resilient, reliable network apps
User adoption of key applications
Guaranteed, continuous service delivery

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Secure Access FAQ

What is Absolute Secure Access?

Absolute Secure Access is one of the company’s core product lines, which was added through the acquisition of NetMotion in July 2021. The product portfolio provides resilient network connectivity for users to securely access critical resources in the public cloud, private data centers, and on-premises. These products allow users to transition from an optimized, secure tunnel to a resilient Zero Trust approach, without impairing productivity or admin controls.

What products are part of Absolute Secure Access?

Absolute Secure Access encompasses three products:

Absolute Core provides security and confidentiality for data in motion by means of encryption and access controls. It also offers benefits to the end user, such as making tunnel and network sessions resilient and optimizing streaming video and audio.
Absolute Edge provides a software-defined perimeter via Zero Trust Network Access, creating a context-based, logical access boundary around an application or set of applications – wherever they're hosted. It shields applications from the Internet, making them invisible to unauthorized users. Access policies are enforced at the endpoint, avoiding latency and any data transgression.
Absolute Enterprise is a converged, resilient cloud-native SSE platform that includes Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Private Access (ZTNA), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) into a single platform. It also includes proactive anomaly detection (AI Threat Insights) and over 70+ dashboards of user, device, network, and application behavior (Insights for Network) as well as Endpoint Compliance that gives administrators additional visibility, control, and resilience over user devices.
Absolute Insights for Network™ offers diagnostic and experience monitoring capabilities across endpoints and network, allowing organizations to proactively monitor, investigate, and remediate end user performance issues quickly and at scale, even on networks that are not company-owned or managed.

What product packages does Absolute Secure Access provide?

Absolute Secure Access packages are offered in three flavors: Absolute Core™, Absolute Edge ™, and Absolute Enterprise with the included products and capabilities as outlined below. Regional variations might be available.

Absolute Core
- Secure, optimized tunnel
- ZTNA dynamic policy enforcement
- Network Access Control (NAC)
Absolute Edge
- Includes Absolute Core, and adds:
- AI-powered web protection (“Shadow IT”)
- Absolute Insights for Network (70+ dashboards)
- AI Threat Insights
Absolute Enterprise
- Includes Absolute Edge, and adds:
- Multiple AV scans
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)
- Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR)
- Endpoint Compliance

For Absolute Edge customers, Absolute offers the Absolute Secure Web Gateway Service (powered by Ericom) add-on module that tightly integrates with the extensive policy capabilities in Absolute Secure Access. It strengthens an organization’s security posture while improving end user experience.

How easy is it to upgrade from one Absolute Secure Access package to another?

Customers can easily upgrade their subscription between Absolute Core, Absolute Edge, and Absolute Enterprise. Capabilities are additive and enabled via a software license key.

What is Security Service Edge (SSE)?

Absolute Enterprise converges Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Private Access (ZTNA), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) into a single platform. Absolute Enterprise provides real-time data and threat protection against advanced zero-day and cloud-enabled threats and offers Endpoint Compliance that enables additional visibility, control, and resilience on devices.

Which operating systems are supported by Absolute Secure Access?

Absolute Secure Access supports Apple® iPad and iPhone devices (iOS 11 and later), Apple MacOS (10.13 and later), Android devices (running on Android 5.0 or later), Android for Work, Samsung KNOX, Windows Pro Tablets, laptops, and other devices running Windows 8, 10, and 11.