Absolute Helps Enterprises Boost Software ROI, Employee Productivity, and Security with New Software and Web Usage Analytics
November 23 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
New capabilities enable IT and Security teams
to automate software inventory reporting, eliminate license excess,
and identify insecure, unsanctioned apps or activity
Absolute® (TSX: ABST) (Nasdaq: ABST), a leader in Endpoint
Resilience™ solutions, today announced new capabilities that
provide IT and Security teams with advanced insights into software
and web usage across their distributed endpoint device fleets. With
Absolute’s new Software Inventory and Web Usage analytics,
organizations can maximize returns on software investments and find
potential cost savings; help ensure employees have the tools they
need to work productively and securely from anywhere; and identify
potential security vulnerabilities or blind spots arising from
unsanctioned, insecure apps or web content.
According to a recent report from Spiceworks Ziff Davis, ‘The
2021 State of IT’, the need to enable a remote workforce and send a
device home with every employee has found many businesses facing
the true cost of software ownership. Investments in productivity
and security software are among the top IT software categories
global companies will prioritize in 2021, “signaling sustained
enterprise interest in enabling remote work.” The report’s findings
also name endpoint device security, specifically, as the top
concern IT pros have for their distributed workforce.
“With devices staying largely off-network in the new world of
remote and hybrid work models, IT departments face multiple
challenges when it comes to having a complete picture of what
software has been purchased and deployed, whether the apps being
used are sanctioned or fully updated, and where they may have gaps
in security or productivity,” said Ameer Karim, EVP of Product
Management at Absolute. “These new features were developed to
provide a holistic view without requiring manual checks or human
intervention. The ability to automate software inventory and web
app usage reporting comes with a number of benefits including
identifying potential license non-compliance or waste, limiting
shadow IT and the use of unsanctioned apps, ensuring tools like web
filters are working effectively, and more.”
With a firmware-embedded position in more than half a billion
endpoints, Absolute enables a permanent digital tether capable of
delivering unbreakable visibility and a persistent stream of data
whether a device is on or off the corporate network. The latest
enhancements to the Absolute Resilience® platform enable enterprise
organizations to:
- Streamline software audits: Automatically scan for
installed software applications to keep software inventory up to
date, ensure optimal deployment of new apps, and monitor adoption
of web-based apps.
- Minimize complexity and waste: Detect app version
complexities and redundancies, as well as potential license excess
that could drive cost savings.
- Boost employee productivity: Detect use of unapproved
installed or web-based apps, to minimize ‘Shadow IT’ and identify
any unmet employee software needs.
- Surface security and compliance risks: Identify
unapproved apps or versions running on corporate devices, as well
as users bypassing web filters and accessing insecure web content,
to help mitigate potential security and compliance risks.
To learn more about Absolute’s new Software Inventory and Web
Usage capabilities, including supported operating systems and
browsers, visit here. To learn more about how Absolute’s
undeletable defense platform enables always-connected visibility
and Self-Healing Endpoint™ security, visit www.absolute.com.
About Absolute
Absolute is a leader in Endpoint Resilience solutions and the
industry’s only undeletable defense platform embedded in over a
half-billion devices. Enabling a permanent digital tether between
the endpoint and the enterprise who distributed it, Absolute
provides IT and Security organizations with complete connectivity,
visibility, and control, whether a device is on or off the
corporate network, and empowers them with Self-Healing Endpoint
security to ensure mission-critical apps remain healthy and deliver
intended value. For the latest information, visit www.absolute.com
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