Absolute Application Resilience
Ensure your mission-critical security and business applications remain installed, healthy, and effective.
Applications fail over time – except those backed by Application Resilience
Application Resilience™ monitors and remediates the health of the most used security applications, enabling organizations to strengthen their security posture. In addition, Application Health enables IT teams to monitor the health of certified business and productivity apps in their environment to maintain end-user experience.
Common decay, unintentional deletion, or malicious actions can easily impact the integrity and efficacy of security, business and productivity applications. Application Resilience provides the needed visibility into your mission-critical applications’ efficacy and allows for application self-healing when needed.
Make the most of your security, business and productivity apps
Monitor the usage and report on the health of your applications.
Go beyond monitoring by establishing Application Resilience policies that automatically repair and/or re-install critical security applications.
Monitor the health of business and productivity apps to maintain end-user experience and ensure your employees stay productive.
Prevent compliance drift by automatically re-generating mission-critical apps. Ensure all your devices are in line with HIPAA, HITECH, CCPA, GDPR, NIST, or other frameworks.
Relieve the strain on your IT team. Application Resilience automatically remediates unhealthy security apps, freeing up your helpdesk to tackle more complex problems.
Self-healing is supported across 80+ commonly used security apps while health monitoring is tracked for over 2000 business and productivity apps.
Industry-leading software applications, protected by Application Resilience
Ensure your devices have necessary anti-malware and threat detection and response capabilities to guard against cyber threats. Examples include Crowdstrike, Carbon Black, ESET Anti-Virus, Sophos and Trend Micro.
Empower your IT team to manage assets and deploy corporate applications, a unified OS build, and security patches. Examples include Ivanti Endpoint Manager, Ivanti Patch, ManageEngine, and Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
Let your employees access corporate resources without compromising security. Examples includes Cisco AnyConnect, F5 BIG-IP Edge Client, Pulse Connect Secure, Zscaler, Netskope, Fortinet, and Palo Alto Networks.
Protect sensitive corporate and customer data at rest and in motion. Examples include WinMagic SecureDoc, Microsoft BitLocker, Trellix DLP and Forcepoint.
What our customers love about Absolute
It takes a lot for me to put faith into an application. I have confidence that the stats Absolute is showing me are true to what’s going on across my device fleet. I believe everything it tells me.
Secure Endpoint Product Editions
Explore our suite of products offering application self-healing, endpoint, patch and vulnerability management.
Harden endpoints and respond to IT or security incidents to reduce downtime. Monitor app health and self-heal critical security agents, query and remediate devices at scale, investigate and recover lost or stolen devices and restore compromised devices back to a fully trusted and compliant state after an incident.
Efficiently manage the deployment of patches with minimal impact on users. Proactively scan for and deploy operating system and third-party patches, prioritize devices and patches with the highest risk to keep your environment secure and schedule patch deployments in maintenance windows to reduce end-user disruption and maintain productivity.
Consolidate patch and vulnerability management across your environment. Scan for and respond to operating system, software and security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations through automated remediation workflows. Build custom workflows to respond to specific exposures using a visual and intuitive workflow builder.
Frequently asked questions
Absolute Application Resilience™ delivers the ability to monitor application health and automatically repair and/or re-install unhealthy third-party applications listed in the Application Resilience catalog to restore them to healthy operations.
Absolute Application Resilience leverages Absolute Persistence® technology already in embedded in over 600 million devices, to remotely remediate an application, making it resilient whether it is uninstalled, disabled, or corrupted. As a result, mission-critical applications running on the endpoint self-heal to maintain the endpoint’s security posture.
Application Resilience is currently available to the security industry ecosystem, including enterprises, security vendors (via Absolute Application Persistence-as-a-Service™ offering), and system manufacturers worldwide. Organizations of all sizes have already taken advantage of this technology to self-heal critical applications such as VPN, endpoint protection, device management, data protection, as well as other security and business applications.
The Absolute Agent must be installed on each endpoint to activate Application Resilience. Based on the specific software application to be made resilient and the policy determined by the administrator, the Absolute solution deploys policy files to the device to support the automatic, zero-touch remediation. Once setup is completed, Application Resilience will repair or reinstall the software agent and other critical application components whenever they are removed or tampered with on a device.
Here is how it works:
- The device calls into the Absolute Platform every 15 minutes.
- A custom agent script is retrieved and executed on the device.
- Whenever an Absolute Application Resilience policy is activated or updated through the Absolute Console, an XML policy file, configured specifically, is downloaded to the device.
- This policy file validates specified pre-deployment conditions (e.g., device type, operating system, device group):
- If conditions are met, the correct application is already present on the device.
- If conditions are not met, the application components are downloaded and installed as per policy file.
The remediation actions that the Application Resilience engine takes in cases of an unhealthy application can be summarized by the three following options. The administrator can choose any one of the three options when configuring the Application Resilience policies within the Absolute Console:
- Report Only: Every 15 minutes, the Application Resilience engine runs health checks on the endpoint to determine whether the application is installed and running correctly. This includes, but is not limited to, checking if the application is listed in the Windows registry, if the application folder has all critical files and operational subdirectories intact, as well as if the application’s services are running smoothly. The Application Resilience engine sends the application’s health status back to the Absolute Platform. Payloads are sent whenever application health changes occur between scans or at a minimum once every 6 hours whenever no changes take place.
- Report and Repair: If the Application Resilience engine detects an unhealthy application status during the Report phase, it will attempt to remediate the application through steps taken within the confines of the endpoint device. This includes, but is not limited to, restarting the application’s services, primary agent, and remediating corrupted registry files.
- Report, Repair, and Reinstall: If the Repair phase fails to remediate the application’s health, the Application Resilience engine will attempt to download the application’s installer from a pre-set URI on a customer-hosted Web server, or from Absolute’s cloud servers, if a customer chooses for Absolute to host the installer on their behalf as part of the Application Resilience configuration. It will then perform a hash check to authenticate the binary contents of the downloaded installer and run a fresh installation on the endpoint device.
Currently, Application Resilience is supported on devices running Windows 7 and higher. The Absolute team continues to investigate methods to extend this capability to other desktop, laptop, and mobile platforms.
Application Resilience is available for all supported applications through an Absolute subscription. Application health reporting is available through Absolute Visibility or Control, while application remediation is available with Absolute Resilience.