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Absolute Adds Vulnerability, Risk, Patch Management to Next Generation Resilience Platform
Omdia Senior Principal Analyst Fernando Montenegro underscores how the acquisition helps Absolute to fulfill on its mission to expand its platform with capabilities that go beyond traditional endpoint management, advancing proactive resilience, security, and risk management for critical systems worldwide.
According to Omdia, the acquisition adds new dimensions to Absolute’s platform by enabling customers to efficiently manage risks associated with patching, misconfigurations, and unknown IT assets. These innovations align with the evolving needs of enterprise buyers who seek to consolidate security solutions while addressing unique challenges in today’s hybrid work environments.
Key Highlights
- Absolute now provides a "proactive" component, helping customers to proactively address patching and vulnerability concerns
- For enterprise buyers, this deal gives them one more option for a more specialized offer
- It provides greater options for those seeking a more platform-centric approach to security
- In the case of Absolute, this means patch management, remote access, response and recovery, and resilience for critical tooling via a consolidated offering
As resilience and fast recovery become increasingly important trends, this adds assurance that vulnerability and patch management tools are always on and fully operational. Read the report to learn more.
Learn More About the Absolute Security Resilience Platform
The Absolute® Platform leverages a cloud-based, highly-available and secure multi-tenant architecture that is available across different regions. It’s comprised of a variety of foundational components that power Absolute product features that are being leveraged by the company’s enterprise customers and ecosystems partners (e.g., independent software vendors, original equipment manufacturers, or managed service providers) alike.
The Absolute Platform consists of three core components:
- Absolute Persistence Technology
Absolute Persistence® technology, a unique, patented technology is already embedded in over 600 million devices as a result of Absolute’s partnership with nearly 30 system manufacturers from around the world. Once activated, this technology is fiercely resilient and is the only solution to survive attempts to disable it, even if the device is re-imaged, the hard drive is replaced, or the firmware is updated.
No other technology can do this. Ultimately, it provides a secure, unbreakable, and always-on connection between the Absolute Platform and the endpoint, allowing you to gain unprecedented real-time visibility, control, and remediation capabilities.
- Absolute Resilience Technology
The Absolute Platform utilizes two types of patented Absolute Resilience™ technology to ensure that mission-critical applications remain healthy and operational and to provide end users with the most productive, as well as optimized remote access experience possible:
- Application Resilience™: Monitors mission-critical applications’ health and behavior; detects if missing, corrupted, or not running; and automatically repairs or re-installs components when necessary – without requiring human intervention. Application Resilience ensures security controls are working as expected and provides optimal user experience by fixing unhealthy applications. Currently more than 60 mission-critical applications are enabled for Application Resilience and more are being added frequently.
- Network Resilience™: Monitors and automatically, as well as transparently restores and optimizes unhealthy network connections so networked applications continue to operate without end user-impacting interruptions that would otherwise require manual application restarts, network re-connects, and/or re-authentications. Network Resilience allows for superior connectivity and reliability, allowing end users to focus on their tasks and not network behavior.
- Absolute Intelligence
Absolute ensures a digital tether to each device remains intact, providing you with reliable insights and intelligence from all of your endpoints to the network edge — on or off your corporate network.
Hundreds of data points are gathered and served up as insights, providing guidance on utilization, health, security and compliance posture, as well as a unified view into the entire end user experience. Applying AI-based risk assessment and user entity behavior analytics lets you go beyond the monitoring of resources and applications, allowing for automated remediation and uncompromised user productivity.
Other foundational components of the Absolute Platform that enable the Absolute Secure Endpoint™ and Secure Access™ products are as follows:
- Web console
- Mobile app
- Rules and policy engine
- Alerts
- Dashboards
- APIs
- Application Persistence-as-a-Service SDK
- Third-party integrations (e.g., SIEM, ITSM)
"When considered with its 2021 acquisition of secure access provider NetMotion, these investments position Absolute as offering a platform approach that integrates visibility, control, recovery, and proactive remediation."
Fernando Montenegro, Senior Principal Analyst, Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Intelligence Service, Omdia
