New Insights from Absolute Software Reveal Increased Risk Exposure amid Continued Adoption of Work-from-Anywhere
01 Juin 2022 - 2:01PM
Business Wire
Increased device mobility, along with fragility
of security controls, underscores need for resilient endpoint and
secure access solutions
Absolute Software™ (NASDAQ: ABST) (TSX: ABST), a leader in
self-healing endpoint and secure access solutions, today announced
unique insights into the increased risk exposure organizations are
facing amid the continued shift from ‘work from home’ to ‘work from
anywhere.’
A new report, titled ‘The Value of Zero Trust in a
Work-from-Anywhere World,’ revealed the average Absolute-enabled
enterprise device connected from at least four separate locations
in March 2022 - representing an 18 percent jump from January to
March alone, and emphasizing the increasingly mobile nature of
today’s hybrid workers. Absolute’s analysis also found 16 percent
of enterprise devices to be unencrypted, and 77 days out of date
with current patching on average, highlighting both the fragility
of critical security controls and the need for resilient security
tools to protect remote devices, data, and network connections.
IT and Security leaders continue to face significant challenges
when it comes to balancing the need to minimize risk exposure with
the need to provide seamless, secure employee access no matter
where they are connecting from. In a recent survey, 42 percent
reported that managing risk is the biggest drawback of remote and
hybrid working.
A resilient Zero Trust security approach enables IT teams to go
beyond securing and validating every connection to the corporate
network and extend their contextual parameters to take into account
the security posture of an endpoint device.
“The shift to remote and hybrid work has changed the nature of
endpoint and network security indefinitely, and has brought Zero
Trust heavily into focus,” said Christy Wyatt, President and CEO of
Absolute. “But implementing a Zero Trust security strategy cannot
be accomplished in one fell swoop, with the purchase of a clearly
defined set of tools; there is not a one-size-fits-all approach.
Every organization should be re-imagining their Zero Trust
architectures to start with the endpoint, capable of extending from
device firmware to the network edge – and with a clear focus on
resilience.”
Among other notable findings, Absolute’s report includes an
in-depth look at the health and performance of five critical
endpoint security controls – such as Unified Endpoint Management
(UEM) solutions, Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPPs), and Virtual
Private Networks (VPNs), among others. Those without the ability to
autonomously self-heal via Absolute’s Application Persistence™
service showed compliance rates as low as 27 percent over a
two-week period, while those with Application Persistence enabled
consistently reported compliance rates above 90 percent.
To read the full report, ‘The Value of Zero Trust in a
Work-from-Anywhere World,’ visit here.
Methodology:
To develop this report, we analyzed anonymized data from nearly
five million Absolute-enabled devices active across 12,000 customer
organizations in North America and Europe as well as information
from trusted third-party sources.
About Absolute Software
Absolute Software (NASDAQ: ABST) (TSX: ABST) is a leading
provider of self-healing endpoint and secure access solutions,
delivering truly resilient zero trust security for today’s
distributed workforces. Absolute is the only endpoint platform
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 connections - enabling customers to
strengthen cyber resilience against the escalating threat of
ransomware and malicious attacks. Trusted by nearly 16,000
customers, G2 recognized Absolute as a leader in Zero Trust
Networking and Endpoint Management in the Winter of 2022.
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