“Organizations are spending billions of dollars to defend against threats and to make sure their mobile workforces remain securely connected to their networks. Despite these massive investments, they continue to get hit with advanced attacks, complexity, and human errors that result in catastrophic disruptions,” said Joe Savarese, Executive Vice President, Secure Access Products, Absolute Security. “Backed by AI and underpinned by the Absolute Cyber Resilience Platform, Secure Access now provides customers the ability not only to maintain the highest levels of performance and zero-trust connectivity available, but also to greatly reduce the risk of being infected with ransomware or impacted by negligent or malicious users.”

The global cost of cybercrime now extends into the trillions of dollars. A single, successful data breach can inflict millions of dollars in damages. Attacks targeting endpoints are becoming more frequent. The only way organizations can manage network risk in the modern threat landscape is by leveraging resilient AI and machine learning solutions that are always up to date, protected against vulnerabilities and threats, and fully operational. Absolute Secure Access customers with AI Threat Insights not only receive resilient, optimized connectivity across their hybrid and remote PC fleets, but also critical added benefits, including the ability to:

• Monitor millions of network traffic flows and associated endpoint telemetry on endpoints, inside and outside of the Absolute encrypted tunnel, to detect, block, and prevent the spread of zero days, ransomware, and other malware.
• Monitor all traffic traversing managed endpoints to detect potential threats and suspicious activities without having to divert traffic to the cloud, improving performance, eliminating latency, and further reducing the overall attack surface.
• Identify suspicious activity quickly, pinpointing individual users, devices, networks, processes, and applications that may be creating high-risk situations.
• Speed the identification, troubleshooting, and resolution of incidents, allowing costly disruptions and downtime to be avoided.
• Protect business-critical data as well as customer and personally identifiable information (PII), reducing the risk of a data breach.
• Achieve compliance with stringent standards including PCI DSS, HIPAA, GLBA, and other regulations.
• Leverage firmware-embedded resilience to maintain maximum performance and connectivity, ensuring that Absolute Secure Access SSE is always up to date, protected against vulnerabilities, and fully operational.

 

“Telemetry is a double-edged sword. It is critical to establishing effective defenses that can detect and stop threats and bad behaviors, but it can also lead to overwhelming false alarms that destroy productivity and lead to missed events,” said Fernando Montenegro, Senior Principal Analyst, Omdia. “With mobile and remote connections expanding, platforms that can capture data in high volumes from the edge and leverage AI to convert it into actionable information are going to be increasingly in demand.”

Embedded in the firmware of more than 600 million PCs, the Absolute Cyber Resilience Platform is the foundation of a modern resilience infrastructure, providing endpoint visibility and control, vulnerability and patch management, secure remote access, application resilience, rapid incident recovery, and AI-enhanced threat detection. The platform’s unique position in the endpoint firmware ensures that from the moment devices are powered on, organizations will be able to ensure that operating systems (OS), applications, and critical security controls are always up to date, protected against vulnerabilities and threats, and fully operational.

Absolute AI Threat Insights is currently available to Secure Access SSE customers at no additional cost. To learn more about Absolute AI Threat Insights, read the blog here, “Absolute Unwraps AI Threat Insights.”

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“Fundamental problems in applications and operating systems are continuing to cripple businesses, despite the billions of dollars spent to defend against advanced threats. Organizations need a modern resilience architecture to address problems before the OS even loads, something that can only be done from the device firmware, where Absolute is uniquely positioned,” said Christy Wyatt, CEO, Absolute Security. “With the addition of Syxsense, we can bring a comprehensive set of resilience capabilities to the market. With cyber resilience reimagined, customers can now fix defects and vulnerabilities before the OS runs or applications load, preventing issues from turning into incidents. Our unique platform provides a pre-installed safety net that helps ensure compliance, integrity, and recovery, even from widespread incidents involving faulty updates.”

Founded in 2012, Syxsense is recognized as a leader in Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) by analyst firm GigaOm and noted for its Unified Endpoint Security (UES) innovation by other leading analyst firms. When added to Absolute, customers will receive:

• Automated Patch Management: Ensuring comprehensive, risk-aligned patching across all platforms with verifiable compliance, reducing vulnerability gaps and meeting regulatory requirements.

• Vulnerability Remediation: Providing proactive, automated remediation for both patched and unpatched vulnerabilities, minimizing risk exposure with a robust library of predefined security fixes. This includes the ability to remediate vulnerabilities even before official patches are available.

• Custom Workflow Automation: Empowering your teams to build and deploy tailored security workflows quickly, while enhancing response times and operational agility without adding complexity.

 

The combination of Syxsense and existing capabilities will provide customers with resilient endpoint security, visibility, control, connectivity, resilience, and self-healing for applications and security controls.

“We are thrilled to bring automated endpoint and vulnerability management to Absolute Security,” said Ashley Leonard, CEO of Syxsense, “We’ve built a platform that enterprises rely on to minimize risk and streamline critical security and management activities across globally distributed endpoints. By leveraging Absolute’s unique position in the firmware, we now can deliver the industry’s only truly resilient solution to a wider market.”

The acquisition positions Absolute to expand its customer base, global presence, and competitive position in additional markets. It will further establish the company as the leader in enterprise cyber resilience by enabling it to expand into the adjacent markets of Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) and Vulnerability Management. Two exciting spaces estimated to be worth a combined $35 billion by 2027. This is in addition to the estimated value of the endpoint security market of $40 – $50 billion.

Existing Syxsense customers and partners will continue to receive full support for existing deployments. Absolute customers will be able to add Syxsense endpoint and vulnerability management capabilities. For more details and a deeper understanding of how to achieve cyber resilience across your organization, read our blog here.