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G2 Winter 2025 Report: Zero Trust Networking Software
About G2 Winter 2025 Grid® Report for Zero Trust Networking
G2 defines Zero Trust Networking software as a type of network security and identity management solution used to implement the Zero Trust security model. Unlike the traditional network security systems, the Zero Trust model assumes every individual, both internal and external, is a potential threat until they are verified.
- Zero trust networking solutions ranked by customer satisfaction and market presence
- Real customer feedback on data protection, application security, and security analytics
- Comparative metrics on customer satisfaction ratings and highly-rated features
Who is G2?
G2 is the world’s leading business software review platform. The Winter 2025 Grid® Report for Zero Trust Networking is presented here in this abridged format in collaboration with Absolute to help technology buyers choose the right partner for zero trust networking.
How G2 defines Zero Trust Networking
Zero Trust Networking software is a type of network security and identity management solution used to implement the Zero Trust security model. As opposed to traditional network security systems, which provide a castle-and-moat system for granting access into a network, the Zero Trust model assumes every individual, both internal and external, is a potential threat until they are verified.
To qualify for inclusion in the Zero Trust Networking category, a product must:
- Utilize adaptive authentication to continuously verify user permissions
- Allow for network segmentation to simplify and broaden policy enforcement
- Monitor traffic and user behavior for future inspection and analysis
G2 Winter 2025 Report: Zero Trust Networking Software
The G2 Winter 2025 Report for Zero Trust Networking in collaboration with Absolute helps buyers choose the right partner for zero trust networking.
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Absolute Secure Access FAQ
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.
Absolute Secure Access encompasses these 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.
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.