Absolute Software announced it has completed the first combined product innovation
milestone following its acquisition of NetMotion Software earlier this year,
adding the self-healing power of its Application Persistence capabilities
to NetMotion's Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) products.
The global pandemic has added more
complexity and a significantly expanded attack surface across enterprise,
education and government organizations. IT and security teams have had to
abruptly deal with tens of thousands of employees working remotely with each
employee's home office effectively becoming an extension of the corporate
office. The pandemic unfolded at unprecedented speed and scale, and
organizations had very little time to react and support this sudden change,
creating an IT help desk support nightmare. In response, organizations have had
to rethink their long-term strategies for managing the future of the employee
experience and its effect on their security architecture.
"What began almost two years ago
with employees being sent home to temporarily work remotely has now quickly
accelerated into work-from-anywhere - forever," said Christy Wyatt, President
and CEO at Absolute. "Our unique Endpoint Resilience differentiation addresses
the challenges of supporting hybrid workers by enabling critical security
controls to remain undeletable while self-healing makes them immune to failures
that would otherwise limit their ability to protect the user or their device.
We're just a little over 90 days into our integration of the NetMotion
acquisition, and we are already rolling out the first wave of innovation by
ensuring that the solution remains installed, healthy and protected from both
malicious or unintended failures while also maintaining a highly persistent,
performance optimized, secure connection to enterprise data and applications."
Anchored by its firmware-embedded
Persistence capabilities residing in more than 500 million
endpoints from nearly 30 global device manufacturers, Absolute provides an
undeletable digital tether to every device to help ensure the highest levels of
resiliency. Absolute's Application Persistence capabilities leverage this
unbreakable, two-way connection to monitor mission-critical security
applications' health and behavior, identify if those applications are missing
or corrupted, and automatically repair or reinstall those components, all without
human intervention. Now, by hardening the NetMotion by Absolute product
portfolio with Absolute's Persistence technology, customers can benefit from an
incredibly resilient Zero Trust security product that keeps workers connected
and safe on any network, all while avoiding the risks of software
misconfiguration or removal, either inadvertently or by bad actors.
"Industry experts tell us that
their customers' number one concern is the failure of security controls and
other mission-critical applications that can put them at risk of ransomware and
other attacks," said John Herrema, Executive Vice President, Product and
Strategy at Absolute. "As a result, it only takes one compromised computer to
expose the entire organization. Because of this, devices and the applications
deployed on them need to be resilient and self-healing in order to support a
successful work-from-anywhere strategy."
Since the acquisition of NetMotion
in July 2021, Absolute has continued to deliver innovative solutions that meet
genuine market needs. In August, Absolute launched DataExplorer, a unique and flexible endpoint
data exploration tool, enabling organizations to align Absolute's expansive,
on-demand endpoint insights with their evolving business requirements. In
September the company announced enhanced geolocation capabilities that empower
enterprise and education IT and security teams to quickly view the locations of
their distributed endpoints, even when those endpoints are not GPS-enabled;
identify potentially risky or out-of-policy device movement; and take swift
action to ensure devices and data remain secure and compliant with
organizational and regulatory requirements.
To read more about how Absolute's
undeletable defense and remote access platform enables organizations to secure,
manage, and support their distributed workforces,
read this blog post.