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Forrester Zero Trust Edge (ZTE) Solutions Landscape, Q4 2024
Absolute Named Among Notable Vendors in Forrester Zero Trust Edge (ZTE) Landscape
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Absolute Named in Forrester Zero Trust Edge Solutions Landscape, Q4 2024
You can use Zero Trust edge (ZTE) solutions to increase the productivity and security of your remote workforce; improve business reliability and enable digital initiatives; and optimize operations and match business speed. But to realize these benefits, you’ll first have to select from a diverse set of vendors that vary by size, type of offering, geography, and use case differentiation. Networking and security professionals should use this report to understand the value they can expect from a ZTE solution vendor, learn how vendors differ, and investigate options based on size and market focus.
Key Highlights
ZTE is a disruptive and high-stakes architecture. It’s disruptive because it solves multiple significant problems at once and is the first phase of interrelating security and networking throughout the entire enterprise. With ZTE you can:
- Increase the productivity and security of the remote workforce
- Improve business reliability and enable digital initiatives
- Optimize operations and match business speed
- Enable End-to-End Control
- Provide Zero Trust access to applications
- Detect and prevent unauthorized access to data
Conventional approaches to security and networking don’t support today’s distributed enterprises, which demand secure connectivity from anywhere to any application. Modernize your infrastructure with ZTE architecture that converges networking and security. Read this report to learn about the role we believe Absolute can play in your ZTE.
Learn About Absolute Secure Access ZTE Capabilities
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 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.
Absolute Resilience is the top service tier in the Absolute Secure Endpoint product portfolio and the most popular package among customers. Compared to Absolute Control, it adds further capabilities to secure endpoints from threats and vulnerabilities, respond to security breaches and incidents, and enable Application Resilience to automatically monitor and detect unhealthy applications and automatically heal them.
"ZTE is a solution that combines security and networking functionalities — such as software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs), cloud access security brokers (CASBs), Zero Trust network access (ZTNA), and secure web gateways (SWGs) — delivered and supported by a single vendor with any combination of cloud, software, or hardware components. "
Andre Kindness, Principal Analyst, Forrester
