Research Report
Security Risk Factors Negatively Impacting Enterprise Cyber Resilience
Time to read: 10 mins
Absolute Security's Cyber Resilience Risk Index 2024 Analyzes Critical Telemetry
Cyber Resilience is a paradigm larger and more critical than traditional cybersecurity. Organizations with effective Cyber Resilience capabilities have digital operations that can withstand and quickly recover to normal business operations following cyberattacks, technical malfunctions, or deliberate tampering attempts.
The "Absolute Security Cyber Resilience Risk Index 2024," will help CISOs and other security and risk professionals to learn about what Cyber Resilience is, the security and risk benefits it provides, whether risk factors impacting resilience are present in their environments, and how to take mitigation steps.
With access to telemetry from more than 5 million globally distributed PCs, Absolute identified startling findings:
Key Highlights
- PC Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) and network access security applications fail to operate effectively 24 percent of the time
- To support AI technologies, 92 percent of enterprise PCs will need to be updated or replaced, leading to massive security challenges
- Most organizations run weeks or months behind in vulnerability patching, opening extensive risk gaps
To learn more about why Cyber Resilience is critical to your enterprise, download the report today.
Learn more about Absolute Cyber Resilience
The Absolute® Platform leverages a cloud-based, highly-available and secure multi-tenant architecture that is available across different regions. It’s comprised of a variety of foundational components that power Absolute product features that are being leveraged by the company’s enterprise customers and ecosystems partners (e.g., independent software vendors, original equipment manufacturers, or managed service providers) alike.
The Absolute Platform consists of three core components:
- Absolute Persistence Technology
Absolute Persistence® technology, a unique, patented technology is already embedded in over 600 million devices as a result of Absolute’s partnership with nearly 30 system manufacturers from around the world. Once activated, this technology is fiercely resilient and is the only solution to survive attempts to disable it, even if the device is re-imaged, the hard drive is replaced, or the firmware is updated.
No other technology can do this. Ultimately, it provides a secure, unbreakable, and always-on connection between the Absolute Platform and the endpoint, allowing you to gain unprecedented real-time visibility, control, and remediation capabilities.
- Absolute Resilience Technology
The Absolute Platform utilizes two types of patented Absolute Resilience™ technology to ensure that mission-critical applications remain healthy and operational and to provide end users with the most productive, as well as optimized remote access experience possible:
- Application Resilience™: Monitors mission-critical applications’ health and behavior; detects if missing, corrupted, or not running; and automatically repairs or re-installs components when necessary – without requiring human intervention. Application Resilience ensures security controls are working as expected and provides optimal user experience by fixing unhealthy applications. Currently more than 60 mission-critical applications are enabled for Application Resilience and more are being added frequently.
- Network Resilience™: Monitors and automatically, as well as transparently restores and optimizes unhealthy network connections so networked applications continue to operate without end user-impacting interruptions that would otherwise require manual application restarts, network re-connects, and/or re-authentications. Network Resilience allows for superior connectivity and reliability, allowing end users to focus on their tasks and not network behavior.
- Absolute Intelligence
Absolute ensures a digital tether to each device remains intact, providing you with reliable insights and intelligence from all of your endpoints to the network edge — on or off your corporate network.
Hundreds of data points are gathered and served up as insights, providing guidance on utilization, health, security and compliance posture, as well as a unified view into the entire end user experience. Applying AI-based risk assessment and user entity behavior analytics lets you go beyond the monitoring of resources and applications, allowing for automated remediation and uncompromised user productivity.
Other foundational components of the Absolute Platform that enable the Absolute Secure Endpoint™ and Secure Access™ products are as follows:
- Web console
- Mobile app
- Rules and policy engine
- Alerts
- Dashboards
- APIs
- Application Persistence-as-a-Service SDK
- Third-party integrations (e.g., SIEM, ITSM)
"Cyber Resilience is a paradigm that extends beyond traditional cybersecurity. It's about ensuring that your digital operations, which are the heart of your organization, can withstand and quickly recover from cyberattacks, technical malfunctions, deliberate tampering, and new deployments."
Christy Wyatt, Absolute Security CEO
