Absolute Software Introduces New Resilience for Student Devices Offering
07 December 2021 - 12:02AM
Business Wire
Enables schools to better secure and protect
hybrid learning environments, streamline device collection, and
meet auditing and compliance requirements for funding programs like
ARPA and FCC ECF
Absolute Software™ (NASDAQ: ABST) (TSX: ABST), a leader in
self-healing Zero Trust solutions, today announced the availability
of Absolute Resilience for Student Devices, a new K-12 offering
specially designed to enable school IT teams with the critical
capabilities needed to better manage individual (1:1) device
programs in hybrid learning environments. The company’s new
offering includes Visibility and Control of student devices, access
to key information for auditing and reporting, and annual support
to streamline the collection of missing devices.
Despite most schools returning to in-person learning for this
school year, 1:1 device programs have become the norm - increasing
the number of devices distributed to students by 74 percent in 2020
alone. The rise in 1:1 programs also contributed to a 45 percent
increase in the number of devices reported either missing or stolen
at the end of the school year, according to Absolute’s latest
Education Endpoint Risk Report. The new hybrid/ learn-from-anywhere
model underscores the complexity IT teams are facing as they scale
systems and processes for device management—from deployment to
collection, configuration to end-of-life – and the need to keep
track of it all for reporting requirements connected to federal
funding.
Combining Absolute’s ubiquitous device Visibility and Control
capabilities with a missing device collection service managed by a
team of reclamation experts, the Absolute Resilience for Student
Devices offer is designed to alleviate this growing problem for
school districts and their IT teams. With end-of-year missing
device collection now becoming increasingly complex and
time-consuming, Absolute’s ability to plan, execute, and enable a
seamless device collection process helps to mitigate device loss,
and simplifies auditing and reporting for devices purchased with
state or federal disbursements such as the American Rescue Plan Act
(ARPA) or Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF).
“Every year schools are forced to spend valuable time and
resources trying to recover student devices that would be better
spent focused on providing students with the best learning
experience possible,” said John Herrema, EVP of Product and
Strategy at Absolute Software. “By enabling schools with this new
offering, education IT teams can further simplify the management
and collection of missing or stolen devices at the end of each
school year and save hundreds of millions of dollars that can be
re-allocated towards the student’s learning curriculum.”
The Absolute Resilience for Student Devices Offer was
specifically designed to help resource-strapped IT teams at K-12
school districts manage and maintain their 1:1 device programs for
the long term. Benefits include the ability to:
- Effectively track, monitor, and secure student devices no
matter where they are, both on and off campus
- Stay audit ready with customizable reports on devices purchased
with US state and federal disbursements such as the CARES Act,
ARPA, and the FCC’s ECF
- Improve device return rates, and save time and money, by
outsourcing missing device collection to Absolute’s team of experts
who will operationalize the process
- Maintain device operations and security posture with
comprehensive remote lifecycle management capabilities — from
configuration to decommissioning — and the ability to address the
latest reported vulnerabilities across device fleets
The Absolute Resilience for Student Devices offer has an MSRP of
USD $49.95 per device for a 3-year term for new customers. Other
term lengths are also available. The offer is initially available
for K-12 school districts in the US and Canada. To learn more,
visit here.
For more information about Absolute’s education solutions, visit
here.
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, helping ensure maximum security
and uncompromised productivity. Absolute is the only solution
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 help 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.
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