Enables Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to
extend Absolute’s unique firmware-embedded, self-healing
capabilities to harden their mission-critical security and business
applications
Absolute Software™ (NASDAQ: ABST) (TSX: ABST), a leader in
self-healing Zero Trust solutions, today 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 (TSXV: PLUR) 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.
Absolute will be hosting a virtual session at InfoSec World
DIGITAL, “How to Avoid Today’s Security Trap of Increasing Spending
but Not Efficacy,” on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 12:35 PM - 1:00
PM EST to discuss the importance of self-healing applications in
helping to mitigate risk. Smart Eye CEO Dexter Caffey will also
join as a guest speaker to discuss what to look from a vendor when
it comes to application persistence. To register and learn more,
visit here.
To learn more about becoming an APaaS partner to harden and
self-heal your security or business app, visit here. To learn more
about how Absolute’s undeletable defense platform enables
organizations with the power of self-healing devices, applications,
and network connections, visit www.absolute.com.
About Absolute Software
Absolute Software (NASDAQ: ABST) (TSX: ABST) accelerates
customers’ shift to work-from-anywhere through the industry’s first
self-healing Zero Trust platform, ensuring maximum security
and uncompromised productivity. Only Absolute is embedded in more
than half a billion devices, offering a permanent digital
connection that intelligently and dynamically applies visibility,
control and self-healing capabilities to endpoints, applications,
and network access to ensure their cyber resilience tailored for
distributed workforces. Trusted by nearly 16,000 customers, G2
recognized Absolute as a leader in Zero Trust Networking in the
Fall of 2021. For the latest information, visit www.absolute.com
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