Absolute Software announced new product
innovations, enabling organizations to track and analyze critical performance
metrics spanning endpoints, users, applications, and network connections. With
the new Absolute Insights for Endpoints add-on module and enhancements to the
company's Secure Access solution's diagnostics and experience monitoring
capabilities, IT and security administrators have access to historical
intelligence from the firmware to the network edge, empowering them to more
seamlessly manage distributed device fleets, enforce security policies, and
optimize the remote user experience in today's work-from-anywhere environments.
Recent research from Absolute revealed that
while a majority of organizations plan to adopt some form of hybrid work in
2022, IT and security leaders continue to face significant challenges in
managing and securing distributed work environments. More than half (54%) of
those surveyed agreed that the biggest challenge in managing risk is having the
right technology tools in place to mitigate it.
"As organizations continue to navigate the uncertainties
of the work-from-anywhere era, access to data and the ability to generate
actionable insights from it has never been more important," said John Herrema,
EVP of Product and Strategy at Absolute. "Having actionable intelligence that
spans devices, applications, networks, and infrastructure is a must have when
it comes to both successfully implementing Zero Trust principles and ensuring
all employees - regardless of location - are able to work securely, effectively
and productively."
Absolute Insights
for Endpoints equips administrators with unparalleled
visibility across their device populations, enabling real-time access to a
range of historical asset and security metrics - including OS patch health,
software updates, application health and usage, geolocation, user behavior
patterns, and sensitive data exposure. Customers can visualize these insights
via a set of pre-built dashboards, or create custom versions aligned with their
internal policies and requirements.
"Since using Absolute, we have greater visibility across
our endpoints than in the past," said Ivan Ramon Castillo Morales, Coordination
of Tools for User Support at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). "Insights
for Endpoints allows us to go even deeper for analytics of the device and our
users, thus helping us make better corporate decisions and protect IT
investments."
Absolute Insights for Network (formerly
NetMotion Mobile IQ) builds upon the existing diagnostics and experience
monitoring capabilities available through the company's Secure Access product
portfolio. New product enhancements allow customers to proactively monitor,
investigate, and remediate end user performance issues quickly and at scale, even
on networks that are not company-owned or managed. This includes broadened
coverage for 5G networks (e.g., signal quality, network availability, network
coverage, and network usage) as well as Windows 11 and ARM devices.
Additionally, security practitioners have increased visibility into the
effectiveness of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) policy enforcement (e.g.,
policy-blocked hosts/websites, addresses/ports, and web reputation), allowing
for immediate impact analysis and further fine-tuning of ZTNA policies to
minimize phishing, smishing, and malicious web destinations.
Absolute Insights for Endpoints is available for purchase
as an add-on module for existing Visibility, Control, or Resilience service
tier customers. Absolute Insights for Network is available as part of the
company's Secure Access product line (formerly NetMotion by Absolute).