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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 volume in its State of Enterprise Cyber Resilience research series: Autonomous Cyber Resilience in the Era of AI. The report features results from a survey conducted by Censuswide that includes 1,000 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) based in the United States (500) and the United Kingdom (500). Leveraging AI and agentic tools “Downtime is the real cost of a breach, it often exceeds every other related cost and is capable of permanently damaging a business,” said Christy Wyatt, President & CEO, Absolute Security. “With threat actors now leveraging AI and agentic tools to launch attacks and spot vulnerabilities at rates previously unimaginable, security and risk leaders are faced with either continuing to fall victim to costly disruptions or deploying solutions that operate with the same speed and efficiency as those being used against them.” Revealed in the report are additional findings that highlight the state of autonomous security and recovery solutions in use and the trust challenges and barriers causing organisations to lag cybercriminals. This research suggests that closing that gap will require cyber resilience capable of detecting, responding to, and recovering from disruptions at the same speed as the attacks themselves. Among several top takeaways:  AI-accelerated vulnerability exploitation Forty-one percent of organisations experienced AI-accelerated vulnerability exploitation in the past 12 months, with 58% of leaders in agreement that AI-assisted attackers are weaponising vulnerabilities faster than patching processes can address them. For production-system autonomy, trust ranks as the top-cited barrier (38%), ahead of integration complexity (33%) and budget (18%). When asked whether Anthropic Mythos and similar tools presented too much risk for their organisations to consider using, 43% agreed, while 32% disagreed and 25% had no opinion. Further underscoring these concerns, 41% agreed the tools should be blocked within their organisations until more is known about how they work, while 30% disagreed and 29% had no opinion. Production-system autonomy "Trust in autonomous solutions remains among the top barriers standing between enterprises and the recovery speed they need to minimise downtime. This research will help security leaders see the risk they're up against and give them the confidence needed to cross the bridge to autonomous recovery," continued Wyatt. To discover more about how Absolute Security stops downtime, meet the Cyber Resilience experts at Black Hat 2026, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, booth 5526.

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, compliance, and operational resilience. Integrity of critical applications “Downtime has emerged as a new and costly threat that our own research shows is driving hundreds of billions in losses annually. MSPs are under increasing pressure to now deliver security, compliance, and true operational resilience for their customers,” said Cherlyn Chin, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Absolute Security. “By working with Pax8, we’re making it easier for partners to embed resilience directly into their service offerings, ensuring critical security tools remain intact, devices stay recoverable, and downtime can be stopped before it leads to unmanageable losses.” The relationship with Pax8 makes it easy for partners to grow their service offerings and businesses by delivering self-healing endpoint security applications, visibility, control, and remote, single-click recovery capabilities. With Absolute Security’s ability to maintain the integrity of critical applications, including RMM, EDR, VPN, and identity tools, MSPs can minimize downtime and reduce costly service disruptions for their customers. Firmware-embedded approach “As Pax8 aims to empower MSPs with innovative solutions that deliver value to SMBs, we’re excited to welcome Absolute Security to the Pax8 Marketplace,” said Oguo Atuanya, CVP of Vendor Experience for Pax8. “Absolute Security brings a unique, firmware-embedded approach to endpoint resilience that complements the modern MSP stack. By bringing their value proposition to our Marketplace, we’re enabling our partners to strengthen their security offerings, reduce operational risk, and confidently support their customers in an increasingly complex threat landscape.” The solution is available to Pax8 partners globally, providing streamlined procurement, simplified billing, and faster time to value.

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 teams can help ensure their networks, systems, and data remain protected and resilient against threats, theft, compromises, negligence, and downtime caused by software failures and cyber disruptions. Restore supported devices “Businesses use hundreds of millions of PCs to keep their operations running and employees fully productive, yet new research shows that organisations can’t locate or control 25 percent of their deployed devices,” said John Herrema, Chief Product Officer, Absolute Security. “Working with Lenovo, we’re helping our customers to maintain connectivity, visibility, and continuous control over their devices, even when they’re powered off or disconnected.” ThinkShield TraceLock is enabled by the Absolute Connections Framework™, a firmware-based architecture designed to maintain persistent communication with endpoint devices. Through remote connectivity capabilities and a single cloud-based console, organisations can: Maintain visibility and control of supported devices from below the OS, even when they have been powered off or disconnected from corporate networks and the Internet. Reduce the risk of data breaches, ransomware, and compromises, with the ability to reinstate and enforce security, compliance, and access policies across supported endpoints. Help prevent unauthorised access to networks and sensitive data with the ability to remotely lock devices and wipe hard drives. Meet internal compliance policies and industry regulation requirements with documentation through audit-ready templates available to major industries. Reduce downtime by automating the restoration of failed PCs back to a last known good state, including reimaging of crashed, compromised, or corrupted operating systems. Extra layer of protection “AI has changed cybersecurity and today’s enterprises demand a new level of control and peace of mind that doesn’t stop at the operating system or on the network edge,” said Nima Baiati, Vice President and General Manager, Commercial Software & Security Solutions, Lenovo. “Developed in partnership with Absolute Security, Lenovo’s ThinkShield TraceLock gives organisations an extra layer of protection and visibility. IT teams can now remotely locate, wake and wipe devices even if they are powered off or not on the corporate network.” Starting July 1, 2026, ThinkShield TraceLock is available on select ThinkPads equipped with WWAN including: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14, ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 11, ThinkPad T14s Gen 7 Intel and ThinkPad T16 Gen 5 Intel. When ordering new ThinkPads, ThinkShield TraceLock can be added through Absolute Control and Absolute Resilience licenses. To learn more about Lenovo ThinkShield TraceLock and other Absolute Security Cyber Resilience solutions, visit booth 339 during Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit (SRMS) 2026 in National Harbor, MD, June 1 – 3.