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Downtime costs reach $19 million per hour on average when endpoint devices become inoperable, according to Absolute Security’s latest research. This level of loss is especially alarming when considering that 88% reported that autonomous recovery capabilities would enable a measurable reduction in the cost of downtime incidents, while only 4% described their organisations as “broadly autonomous.” Absolute Security, an Autonomous Cyber Resilience pioneer, publishes the third vol...

Absolute Security, an enterprise cyber resilience pioneer, launches on the Pax8 Marketplace, the global AI and cloud marketplace for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to deliver endpoint cyber resilience solutions. This collaboration with Pax8 enables managed service providers (MSPs) to seamlessly access, deploy, and manage Absolute Security cyber resilience solutions directly within the Pax8 ecosystem. This enables MSPs to provide customers with AI-powered endpoint device security, comp...

Absolute Security, an enterprise cyber resilience pioneer, today unveiled Lenovo ThinkShield TraceLock. Powered by the Absolute Security Cyber Resilience Platform, customers can leverage this innovation to locate, wake, connect, control, and restore supported devices through a firmware-embedded, persistent connection, even when they are powered off or disconnected from WiFi or local area networks. With the ability to locate and control offline, lost, missing, or stolen PCs, security and IT team...

Over half (58 percent) of cybersecurity leaders would consider paying cybercriminals to end a ransomware attack, with 46 percent ranking operational downtime as the most significant impact ransomware is likely to have on their organisations. Report details These are among findings revealed in The Ransomware Reality: Zero Days to Recover. This new report from Absolute Security includes results from a survey of  750 enterprise Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the...

Absolute Security, an enterprise cyber resilience leader, announced that its Secure Endpoint and Secure Access SSE solutions are now integrated on the Absolute Security Cyber Resilience Platform. Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) can leverage this integration to help ensure that all enrolled endpoint devices are compliant with organisational security and risk policies before accessing networks, cloud applications, and sensitive data, while maintaining operational continuity and accele...

Absolute Security, an enterprise cyber resilience pioneer, are integrating Agentic AI into the Absolute Cyber Resilience Platform in order to prevent the costly consequences of downtime. This innovation will advance the company’s mission to help organisations withstand and rapidly recover from destructive cyber incidents and widespread software failures that are driving more than $400 billion in annual losses from the global economy.  Preventing financial losses In a recent survey...

Three in five businesses have experienced a significant failure caused by a supplier or third-party vendor over the past year, with 61% reporting that their cyber resilience policies are too internally-focused, according to a new report by Zscaler. Two-thirds (65%) of IT leaders believe the macroenvironment is driving significant volatility in their supply chain, causing 63% to expect a similar failure within the next 12 months. Cyber resilience policies The findings come from Zscaler’s...

Cyber threats against the Office for Budget Responsibility have over doubled in the past 12 months, ahead of Rachel Reeves’ crunch Autumn Budget. On November 26th, Reeves is set to announce a wave of economic policies to fight against the high cost of borrowing in the UK, with hints of income tax and inheritance tax hikes on the horizon.  The Office for Budget Responsibility provides an independent analysis of the UK’s public finances, from which the Chancellor of the Exchequ...

Cybersecurity experts are warning that too many organisations are treating resilience as a compliance requirement rather than embedding it into core business strategy, leaving them dangerously exposed to cyber attacks. According to Gartner, resilience is too often viewed as a “tick-box” exercise focused narrowly on metrics or recovery documentation. Instead, experts stress the need for cross-department collaboration, regular testing through simulations, and executive-level involvem...

Absolute Security, a pioneer in enterprise cyber resilience, is expanding into India, a fast-growing technology market expected to top $160 billion by 2030.  As part of its entry into the country, the company is growing a dedicated India-focused team and has opened a data centre there through an AWS partnership to serve customers in the region. Data sovereignty requirements With Absolute Security, clients can help ensure their businesses are always on, defended against threats These fou...

Cybersecurity teams are taking a cautious approach to artificial intelligence (AI), despite industry hype and pressure from business pioneers to accelerate adoption, according to a new survey from ISC2. While AI is widely promoted as a game-changer for security operations, only a small proportion of practitioners have integrated these tools into their daily workflows, with many remaining hesitant due to concerns over privacy, oversight, and unintended risks. Advanced in industrial se...

Absolute Security, a pioneer in enterprise resilience, announced new Extreme Resilience capabilities available in Rehydrate, an Absolute Resilience Platform module. Rehydrate enables remote restoration of Windows endpoints at enterprise scale with a single click. It delivers full recovery even when the device OS and other security or management tools have crashed, been compromised, or become corrupted. New Extreme Resilience capabilities With these new Extreme Resilience capabilities, Re...

The UK’s AI Safety Institute has been recast as the UK AI Security Institute, bolstering protections against AI risks facing national security and crime, and delivering a key pillar of the government’s Plan for Change. The pivot reflects a focus on serious AI risks with security implications, including malicious cyber-attacks, crimes against fraud and the development of weaponry. Assess the risks by frontier AI AI Security Institute will partner with national units, incl...

Absolute Security, the pioneer in enterprise resilience, announced that the Absolute Resilience Platform has expanded to provide customers with integrated, resilient, and automated patch management, vulnerability scanning and remediation, workflow automation and remote “one-click” endpoint rehydration. Unified with existing Absolute capabilities, this single-platform approach delivers needed security and risk capabilities, reduces the cost of endpoint management, and improves resili...

Absolute Security, the pioneer in enterprise resilience, has been recognised by renowned industry analyst organisation - Forrester among Notable Vendors in its recent report: The Zero Trust Edge Solutions Landscape, Q4 2024. This recent report helps organisations understand the main trends, challenges, and benefits driving ZTE adoption, along with providers that deliver on a range of use cases. Zero Trust edge (ZTE) solutions Authored by Forrester Principal Analyst - Andre Kindness, the repor...

The UK is set to unveil a new skills initiative at the Global Cyber Skills Summit 2024, as the UK, US, and EU convene as part of a “renewed focus” to tackle cyber threats. Cyber Security Minister Feryal Clark confirmed that the UK will launch a regional skills programme to fund initiatives such as apprenticeships to build local pipelines of cyber experts across England and Northern Ireland, as well as funding companies developing new forms of cyber security. Cyber skills train...

Absolute Security, the pioneer in enterprise cyber resilience, has acquired Syxsense, a recognised innovator in automated endpoint and vulnerability management. Firmware-embedded platform With Syxsense integrated, customers will be able to add automated, vulnerability and patch management capabilities. From the moment devices are powered on, organisations will be able to leverage Absolute’s firmware-embedded platform to ensure that operating systems (OS), applications, and critical secu...

Over half (54%) of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) feel their security team is unprepared for evolving AI-powered threats, according to research from Absolute Security. The findings were uncovered in the Absolute Security United Kingdom CISO Cyber Resilience Report 2024 which surveyed 250 UK CISOs at enterprise organisations, via an independent polling agency Censuswide, to assess the state of cyber resilience, AI, and the cyber threat landscape in the UK. NCSC findings According...

Key figures from the cyber security industry have issued a stark warning about the threat posed by AI-enabled ransomware attacks. Infosecurity Europe Over 50 security pioneers and senior executives gathered at a specialist security workshop, organised by Absolute Security at the European conference - Infosecurity Europe. The event saw security pioneers debate the risks posed by generative AI, growing volumes of ransomware and cyber attacks, and the risks posed to businesses. Cyber resilience...

Over one-third (35 percent) of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) admit to ignoring the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC’s) cybersecurity guidance. This finding and others were revealed in a new survey and report from Absolute Security, a global pioneer in enterprise cyber resilience. Cyber Resilience Report 2024 This finding was despite 48 percent of respondents revealing that their organisation was hit by a ransomware attack over the past year. The NCSC has issued...

New Government regulations mandate that all internet-connected smart devices, spanning from phones to TVs to smart doorbells, adhere to minimum-security standards by law. Groundbreaking legislation is in effect in the UK, aimed at shielding consumers and businesses from cyber threats. Cyber laws This initiative, spearheaded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the National Cyber Security Centre, and the Office for Product Safety and Standards, along with the efforts of Ju...

Absolute Software, the pioneer in enterprise cyber resilience, is available to assist organisations impacted by Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure Zero Days and other vulnerabilities. 90-day support Help includes free Absolute Secure Endpoint and Absolute Secure Access product licences and support for 90 days, along with the expertise needed to quickly deploy and scale replacement solutions across endpoints. Absolute solutions are not impacted by the Zero Days and other vulnerabil...

Absolute Software, the provider of self-healing, intelligent security solutions announced the launch of Absolute Application Health. This new feature empowers digital enterprises to strengthen cyber resilience and boost end-user productivity with the industry’s most advanced application health monitoring capabilities. Health monitoring With this latest innovation to the company’s Secure Endpoint product line, customers can monitor the health of more than 2,000 commonly used Window...

Absolute Software™, the only provider of intelligent, self-healing security solutions, has announced that it has been recognised as a pioneer in the Fall 2023 Grid® Reports for Endpoint Management and Zero Trust Networking published by G2, the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. The latest reports also revealed that an overwhelming majority of Secure Endpoint users (97%) and Secure Access users (99%) rate Absolute with four or five stars. Absolute Secure Endpoint...

Absolute Software, the only provider of intelligent, self-healing security solutions, announced that it has been recognised for the second year in a row as a Representative Vendor in the 2023 Gartner Market Guide for Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). In the report, Gartner emphasised growing demand in the market and ZTNA’s future direction. The report stated, “The ZTNA market has continued to mature and grow rapidly. Gartner’s Forecast: Enterprise Network Equipment by Mar...

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have ramped up their focus on the UK’s digital resiliency to better protect against the rising tide of cyber-attacks. A top priority for the organisations is to improve the UK’s response to cyber incidents, with the ICO incentivising impacted businesses to engage with the NCSC to encourage transparency and recovery against threats. NCSC and ICO’s resiliency roadmap The NCSC and ICO&rs...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a warning about the risks posed by smart devices harvesting personal data. The ICO also announced a crackdown on connected devices, announcing plans for new rules and action to be taken against manufacturers who fail in their data security obligations. Audit of connected devices The warning comes in response to a new report from Which? that conducted a detailed audit of connected devices, revealing that almost all required location...

Data breaches currently cost UK organisations an average of £3.4 million, but AI can be used to significantly reduce, according to a new IBM Security Report. This comes as IBM’s annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, which analysed real-world data breaches from 553 global organisations between March 2022-March 2023, showed a decrease in the total average of a data breach in the UK from £3.8m in 2022 to £3.4m in 2023. Businesses impacted by data breach Tech businesses and...

Absolute Software the only provider of self-healing, intelligent security solutions announced that Forrester, an industry pioneer analyst firm, has recognised Absolute in its recent report, The Zero Trust Platforms Landscape, Q2 2023. Use of zero trust platform The publication advises readers on what Zero Trust platforms are, the business value they deliver, and the dynamics and vendors driving the market. The report also highlights how organisations can discover how to 'use Zero Trust platfo...

Absolute Software, the only provider of self-healing, intelligent security solutions, has expanded its differentiated Security Service Edge (SSE) solution with the launch of the Absolute Secure Web Gateway Service. Optimised for hybrid and mobile work models, this new extended offering builds on existing capabilities available in Absolute Secure Access including Absolute ZTNA and Absolute Insights™ for Network, and empowers organisations to strengthen security, boost productivity, an...