Absolute Software announced the launch of
Absolute Application Persistence-as-a-Service (APaaS), empowering Independent
Software Vendors (ISVs) and system manufacturers to leverage Absolute's
firmware-embedded, self-healing device connection to strengthen the health and
resiliency of their mission-critical applications. By embedding
Absolute's Application
Persistence capabilities into their software package, ISVs can
continuously maintain the integrity of their endpoint applications to help
ensure they remain healthy, installed, and working effectively across their
entire customer base.
The findings in Absolute's third
annual Endpoint Risk Report underscore that the shift to remote
and hybrid work has exacerbated the complexity of endpoint environments. Absolute's
analysis shows the average enterprise device has 96 unique applications
installed, including nearly 12 security controls. This ‘application sprawl' has
left endpoint agents under constant threat of decaying or colliding with other
applications, being disabled by malicious or negligent users, or failing to
survive system updates or device re-imaging.
"In today's work-from-anywhere environments,
organizations are more reliant than ever on software - to both protect them
from an onslaught of security threats, and ensure employees stay connected and
productive," said Edward Choi, SVP of Global Alliances at Absolute Software.
"In order to best serve their customers and deliver maximum value, ISVs need
their endpoint applications to be self-aware and capable of healing themselves
if they are tampered with, accidentally removed, or otherwise stop working.
This requires a different approach to application hardening and resilience -
one that is built on an undeletable, firmware-embedded connection to devices and
applications."
With APaaS, Absolute is delivering a unique
solution that enables ISVs to strengthen application resiliency with lower
development costs and no ongoing code maintenance - and ultimately, deliver a
higher return on software investments and strengthen security posture for their
end customers. APaaS partners also have access to rich application health
telemetry data (e.g., data on repairs and re-installs, app versions used in the
wild, app integrity, and top failure reasons) that offers valuable insights
into application health and performance, allowing for continuous optimization
and improvement.
Absolute also announced that leading software
providers Plurilock Security and Smart
Eye Technology are among the initial partners leveraging APaaS
to ensure their critical security applications remain healthy and undeletable
across their entire customer base. Plurilock DEFEND is a continuous
authentication platform that offers identity assurance and compromise
detection, alerting IT security personnel to potential threats in real time.
Smart Eye Technology provides proprietary biometric technology that utilizes
continuous facial, voice, and fingerprint recognition to deliver revolutionary
screen and file-sharing security.
"Before the well-documented shift to
employees working remotely, most organizations had a reasonable amount of
confidence that if a device was in the office, that meant it could be trusted,"
said Ian L. Paterson, CEO of Plurilock. "In today's work-from-anywhere
environments, we can no longer make that assumption; the right software needs
to be running on these endpoints to keep them secure. Our customers rely on our
application continuously throughout each day to ensure only authorized users
are accessing their systems and sensitive data. Plurilock is excited to partner
with Absolute to add self-healing capabilities to our endpoint agent as a new
offering for our customers."
"Our customers have entrusted us to protect
their confidential information from the very real threats of visual hacking,
fraud, forgery, counterfeiting, and more," said Dexter Caffey, CEO and Founder
of Smart Eye Technology. "Through APaaS, we are able to extend Absolute's
undeletable line of defense and self-healing capabilities to our application to
ensure it stays up and running. This gives us the confidence, and the
validation, that we are delivering on our promise of keeping customers' highly sensitive
data secure."
Additionally, building on its product integration announcement last
month, Absolute has embedded its Application Persistence capabilities into
NetMotion by Absolute's Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) products - making the
industry's first self-healing Zero Trust platform available to all customers
using the NetMotion by Absolute product portfolio.