IT Asset Management

Year-End Inventory and Device Collection Handbook

Learn best practices for device collection, including both communication and technology guidelines to seamlessly reclaim your district’s devices.

The Higher Ed Challenge

Strengthening Security and Compliance Posture through Cyber Resilience in Government

Tracking and Recovering Missing Devices

The Third Question: What CISOs Aren't Asking, and What's at Stake

Standardize your compliance reporting and control your remote devices

7 Steps to Protecting Data in the Era of Digital Care

Cyber Threat Checklist: Are You Prepared?

The New Paradigm for Work-from-Anywhere: ZTNA

Insights from an Industry Analyst: The Need for Resilient, Integrated Zero Trust

K-12 Peer Advice Forum: What’s Working for IT and Security Teams

Five Steps to Safeguarding Your Digital District

3 Immediate Actions to Save Time While Managing Online Learning

Nailing It! 5 Ways to Win with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework

5 Essentials for Securing and Managing Windows 10

3 Essential Actions to Manage and Secure Remote Devices

Endpoint Resilience As A Proactive Security Strategy

Five Easy Ways to Transform Your Absolute Account

Always-on Secure Tunnel: Establish Resilient and Persistent Remote Connections

Effective Asset Lifecycle Management

Product Briefing: Critical Steps to Secure and Manage Your Remote Workforce

Cyber Resilience: Moving Beyond the Buzzword

Empowering Organizations to Troubleshoot in a Remote Workculture

Managing & Securing Your Chromebook Devices

Zero Trust: Secure Web Gateway

Endpoint & Network Visibility: Ensure visibility & control, even outside of the corporate network

Self Healing: Ensure the efficacy of your most valued security applications

ZTNA: How to Finetune Your Policies

Ransomware Readiness: Is your organization prepared for a possible attack?

Preparing your Device Fleet for the Economic Downturn

Zero Trust Architecture: Implement & maintain a strong security posture

Device Utilization

Network Performance & Diagnostics

Leveraging AI to Block Malicious Content

Critical Security & Productivity Applications

Leveraging Device Visibility to Boost Your IT & Security Processes

Optimizing Asset Lifecycle Management

Web Gateway Service

Digital Experience Monitoring: Gain actionable insight

Mitigating Zero-Day Threats

Transitioning from VPN to ZTNA

Remote Work Device & Security Risks

New innovation in endpoint security and resilience

Application Persistence: How to Secure Your Security

Year-End Inventory and Device Collection Handbook

Learn best practices for device collection, including both communication and technology guidelines to seamlessly reclaim your district’s devices.

Web Usage Reporting Education

Use new Web & Rising Web Usage Reports to know what websites students are spending their time on, monitor EdTech use, and block potentially unsafe content with web filters.

ITAM

Remote workforces and BYOD programs have added layers of complexity to IT asset management. Use Absolute to prove compliance, reduce asset losses, and drive efficiencies.

Chromebooks

Absolute for Chromebooks in Education lets small schools to large districts track, manage, and secure their Chromebooks, complementing the Google Admin Console.

Investigative Services

Learn how Absolute Investigative Services has used cyber forensics to solve crimes and recover devices since 1993.

Absolute Resilience for Security

Proactively assess patch health for known operating system and software vulnerabilities.

Absolute Secure Access

The Absolute Secure Access product portfolio assures reliable, resilient access for your anywhere workforce.

ServiceNow Integration Program for Absolute Security’s Secure Endpoint

Streamline your asset management and control by integrating Secure Endpoint with ServiceNow today!

Web Usage and ROI Reporting

The Absolute Web Usage and Web Subscription Reports allow users to analyze usage patterns of Web tools and compare this with their license costs to assess return on investment.

Resilience for Student Devices

Asset Description: Absolute Resilience for Student Devices helps IT teams at K-12 school districts effectively manage, track, secure, and report on student Windows devices.

Absolute DataExplorer

Absolute DataExplorer enables organizations to align device reporting to their specific business needs. Define and configure custom datapoints to be captured across your devices or choose to activate default datapoints available through the Absolute console.

Absolute Connector for ServiceNow

The Absolute Connector for ServiceNow enables users to access Absolute’s source of truth asset intelligence and execute device actions from within their ServiceNow platform environment.

Absolute End User Messaging Workflow

Learn how to send messages to devices to inform end users about an upcoming event, warn them of a policy violation or to solicit information from devices or their respective end users.

Absolute Rehydrate

Remotely recover compromised endpoints to a fully trusted and compliant state after an IT or security event occurs.

Absolute Reach

Understand Reach's power to detect, understand, and remediate vulnerabilities across 100% of your endpoints on-demand, even off the corporate network.

Application Persistence

Get answers to common questions about Application Persistence, the most reliable way to ensure the health of your mission-critical applications.

Absolute for Chromebooks

Get answers to common questions about our security solution for Google Chromebook devices.

Absolute Device Wipe

Get answers to commonly asked questions about Absolute Device Wipe. Learn about how it functions, its use cases and the erasure standards it complies with.

Absolute for Chromebooks

Absolute enhances the Google Admin Console, extending its capabilities with comprehensive intelligence and control. Everything you need is at your fingertips: insights into device health, user behavior metrics, plus the ability to monitor, control, and protect student devices from a single console, on- or off-network.

K12 Tech Talk - with Christy Wyatt

An engaging podcast about IT issues and trends in K-12 Schools featuring an interview with Christy Wyatt, CEO of Absolute Security.

Fix Endpoint Vulnerabilities and Enforce Operating System Updates

Learn how Absolute Reach helps you automate and expand your IT capabilities, so you can respond efficiently to vulnerabilities and act quickly to protect your users, devices, and data - even off-network.

K-12 Peer Forum Offers Distance Learning Insight

Discover key insights from K-12 educational leaders on implementing effective distance learning strategies during unprecedented times.

Apria Healthcare Sees And Secures 8,000 Devices With Absolute

With Absolute Persistence® already installed in the BIOS of their endpoint devices, Apria found unbreakable endpoint visibility and control by simply turning Persistence on.

4 Recent Data Breaches That Originated On The Endpoint

Let’s look at four recent breaches that originated on the endpoint to examine what you could do now to avoid a similar fate.

Quantifying K 12 Device Use With Absolute

Using Absolute, LCPS was able to provide quantitative information on device utilization rates right away.

How Experts Track Stolen Laptops

At Absolute, we have the Investigations and Recovery Team to track and recover lost and stolen devices on behalf of our customers. Since the team’s formation in 1993, we have helped customers around the globe recover more than 50,000 lost or stolen laptops over the years. In FY2018 alone, the team investigated more than 15,000 laptop incidents and successfully recovered 67% of them.

How LA Tourism Secures A Distributed Workforce

The structure of work is changing rapidly. Driven by technology advancement, a global economy and a constant push for more productivity, there is a fast-moving trend toward enabling a distributed workforce.

How To Protect Your Data If A Laptop Is Lost Or Stolen

When a device goes missing, so does all of the sensitive data that resides on it. Do you have a plan in place for tracking devices and securing your information?

How The Cook County Sheriff Lights Up Dark Endpoints

How the Cook County Sheriff Lights Up Dark Endpoints | Blog | Absolute Security

Endpoints: The Weak Link in Your Security Posture

Getting a grip on proliferating devices with a remote workforce is challenging. To combat the many security gaps found in this landscape, you need a layered approach that includes access management, network security, and endpoint management. This is the foundation of zero trust.

The Power of Absolute Device Groups in Education

Schools need to manage a scattered device fleet and keep on top of security updates remotely, especially if your district relies on CARES or ARP Act funding. Absolute Device Groups allows IT to organize their devices into logical groupings.

Absolute Again Recognized as a Leader in G2 Grid Report for Endpoint Management

Absolute was named a leader in the Spring 2021 Grid Report for Endpoint Management published by G2 for the seventh consecutive quarter.

In a Work from Anywhere World Absolute Is Staying One Step Ahead With Industrys First Self Healing Zero Trust Platform

There are always going to be pros and cons when employees work from home versus working from an office. From an IT and security perspective, the distributed nature of today’s workforce has opened up a pandora’s box of potential issues.

How Fresno Unified School District Secures 100,000 Remote Learning Devices with Absolute Resilience

From device tracking to locating students to persisting key applications in the era of remote learning, Fresno Unified has seen significant ROI with Absolute Resilience.

Absolute Investigations Device Recovery Success Stories Spring 2023

Sadly, laptops are stolen all the time. While the devices themselves have a price tag, it’s always the data that resides on them that costs the most. Absolute customers have important resources to lean on when their laptops are stolen - the Absolute Investigations Team and Absolute Persistence technology.

Absolute Secure Endpoint 8.0 Adding a New Level of Endpoint Resilience

Absolute Secure Endpoint 8.0 includes enhancements to the Absolute Console’s navigation flow, additional Device Usage events, discovering sensitive files across endpoints with greater flexibility, contextual Geolocation information and additions to the Application Resilience Catalog.

Absolute Investigations Device Recovery Success Stories Winter 2024

The high cost of stolen hardware is a definite concern for most organizations but more important than the cost of the device is the value of the data found on the device. When it comes to managing your devices, and more specifically, stolen laptops, Absolute customers have an important resource to lean on. The Absolute Investigations Team.

How To Manage End-Of-Year Device Collection Chaos

Device collection is a challenge — particularly in a school year that demanded remote learning. We have solutions to help you track down your student devices with ease.

Answers To Today's Toughest Endpoint Security Questions In The Enterprise

Knowing whether or not their endpoint security strategies are working keeps #CIOs up at night. Because you can't secure what you can't see, you need an undeletable tether.

Back to School: Safeguarding Student Data Privacy Must Be Top Priority This Year

As cyber threats rise in K-12 education, protecting student data and securing devices is more critical than ever. Learn how to improve endpoint security now.

Cybersecurity Awareness Series: Endpoint attack surface grows as vulnerabilities remain unaddressed

Absolute's 3-part cybersecurity awareness series empowers organizations with key indicators pulled from our technology that is embedded in the firmware of more than 600 million devices. In this post, we look at how organizations are keeping up with needed patching and compare that across industries.

How to Boost Your Resilience Against the Ransomware Epidemic in Healthcare

More than 90% of all healthcare organizations reported at least one security breach over the last three years in the United States.

Building a Strategy for Endpoint Security and Student Privacy in 2021

With the start of the new school year just around the corner, how are you securing district devices and data? Here are 3 steps to get you started.

The Parents’ Perspective: Insights into Distance Learning and Security

As we approach the mid-way mark of the 2020-2021 school year, distance learning remains an instructional delivery cornerstone for most schools in one way or another. How are we actually doing?

Bad Weather Ahead: The Parallels Between Cybersecurity and Enduring Winter

Cybersecurity is much the same as bad weather. We all have risks but the type and mitigation steps vary.

Absolute Investigations April Roundup: Device Recovery Success Stories

Our customers have the support of the Absolute Investigations Team. With years of experience working with law enforcement, their work has resulted in many impressive device recoveries.

For Schools Seeking Stronger 1:1 Programs Absolute Introduces New Resilience for Student Devices

For districts to better manage here-to-stay 1:1 programs, Absolute has introduced Absolute Resilience for Student Devices.

Absolute’s Third Annual K-12 Endpoint Risk Report Examines IT and Security Outcomes of the Scramble to Digital Learning

Leveraging anonymized data from over 10,000 schools and districts, the Absolute Endpoint Risk Report: Education Edition illustrates how distance learning has been fully embraced – but that critical efficiency and security gaps remain.

Making A Summer Plan for Student-Held Devices

For the districts who decided to leave devices with students for the summer, what should be done next to ensure a smooth learning experience this fall? Absolute customers already have the tools needed to support safe, effective learning, no matter where the devices are.

What’s Your Strategy for Collecting Student Devices?

K-12 student device collection was already a complex process before the rapid shift to distance learning. Thankfully, there are a few approaches you can take to ease the collection process.

The True Challenge of School Inventory Audits

Simplify K-12 device audits with Absolute’s cybersecurity solutions. Improve accuracy, security, and efficiency for school inventory collection in 2025.

Absolute Investigations October Monthly Roundup: Device Recovery Success Stories

Laptop stolen? Absolute customers can lean on our Investigations Team for recovery help. Here are just a few recent success stories from our happy customers.

Digital Resiliency is a Key Distance Learning KPI

Distance learning has proved to be a valuable part of a long-term strategy for student education. This means digital resiliency must become a key performance indicator in K-12.

How Distance Learning Has Forever Changed Education IT

Now well into the school year’s second semester of distance learning for most K-12 districts in the U.S., IT teams have certainly made progress… but the struggles remain very real.

3 Critical Shifts Transforming the Education IT Landscape

With a growing reliance on devices during distance learning, there are 3 structural industry shifts that will continue to impact education in the school years to come.

5 Steps To Streamline Student Device Collection

Simplify K-12 device collection with Absolute. Ensure efficient recovery, secure devices, and streamline end-of-year audits for 2025.

Secure At-Risk Devices using the Absolute Control Mobile App

Just released - the Absolute Control mobile app allows quick response to the health and safety of all your endpoint devices.

Aligning Endpoint Data Collection with Specific Organization Needs

Discover top cybersecurity strategies for 2025 to enhance endpoint security and protect data from emerging threats in today's evolving work environment.

How to Maximize Device Investments and Strengthen Security Posture with Absolute Web Usage Analytics

Find out how to unlock powerful insights into web usage with Absolute Web Analytics. Optimize security and productivity in hybrid environments.

Public Saftey

Learn how Secure Access helps over 2,500 law enforcement agencies, first responders, as well as 911 dispatch and CAD.

Federal Government

Leverage Secure Endpoint to enable a digital federal government, maintain security controls, protect sensitive public data and comply with a variety of federal data regulations.

Higher Education

Colleges and universities need to square their need for information with compliance risks and cybersecurity threats. Strike the balance with Absolute's endpoint visibility and control.

Financial

Meet internal and regulatory requirements for data security on all your devices with Absolute's powerful suite of tools.

Government

Leverage Absolute to enable a secure digital government, and increase your IT and security efficiency, accuracy and confidence. Stay compliant on all your endpoints.

K-12 Education

See, manage, control and validate appropriate usage across your entire device population — whether they're Chromebook, Windows, or Mac devices.

Healthcare

Learn how Absolute gives you the power to identify potential security threats and respond rapidly before they become security incidents that require breach notifications.

Legal

Law firms are trusted with some of their clients' most sensitive data. Protect it — and your IT assets — with Absolute's unprecedented endpoint visibility and control.

Energy Utilities

As the energy industry becomes more complex and distributed, it's more crucial than ever to see and protect all your endpoints. Learn how Absolute can help.