Absolute Software’s Annual Endpoint Risk Report Underscores Compromised Security Controls Widening Enterprise Attack Surface - Seite 2

The Absolute Platform for Endpoint Resilience enables a secure, unbreakable connection to every endpoint, delivering visibility and intelligence into devices, data, and applications across the entire endpoint environment. Absolute's Application Persistence service continuously measures the effectiveness of a growing ecosystem of mission-critical security and productivity applications, and empowers them to automatically repair or reinstall themselves if they become compromised. Absolute’s insights show that enterprise devices running Absolute's Application Persistence service reported security control effectiveness 21 percent higher than those without.

Other notable insights from the 2021 Absolute Endpoint Risk Report include:

• Endpoint complexity and redundancy continue to plague enterprises:The average number of security controls has increased to more than 11 per enterprise device, with the majority of devices containing multiple controls with the same function. Two in three (60%) enterprise devices analyzed had two or more encryption applications installed, while more than half (52%) had three or more endpoint management applications installed.
• Sensitive data remains unprotected and at risk: Nearly three in four (73%) enterprise devices analyzed contained sensitive data, such as Protected Health Information (PHI) or Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Compounding the risk of exposure, nearly one in four (23%) devices with high levels of sensitive data also reported unhealthy encryption controls.
• Patching delays leave critical vulnerabilities unaddressed: The average Windows 10 enterprise device was found to be 80 days behind in applying the latest available OS patches. More than 40 percent of Windows 10 enterprise devices were running version 1909, which is associated with over 1,000 known vulnerabilities.

Absolute’s 2021 Endpoint Risk Report was developed using anonymized data from nearly five million Absolute-enabled devices active across 13,000 customer organizations in North America and Europe. To download the full report, 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.

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