This company wants to fix and repair your VPN



Security company Endpoint Absolute has announced that it will now offer many of its existing customers free access to its proprietary Persistence technology to help them proactively fix and install their existing VPN applications. By enabling this capability, enterprise IT teams can ensure remote workers have uninterrupted access to corporate networks, business applications, and data during the global coronavirus epidemic. Chairman and Absolute CEO, Christy Wyatt, explained how the company's persistence technology can help keep the business running in a press release, saying, "As we learn from customers around the world who are encouraging With more employees and/or students working and studying remotely, there has never been a more critical time to ensure security controls remain in place and effective. Allowing our customers to reinstall and recover VPN apps allows them, in turn, to provide employees simple, secure access to the sensitive apps and data they need to do their jobs, wherever they work... and maintain business continuity and their ability to care for their customers."

Application persistence for VPN

As the coronavirus continues to disrupt daily business activities, many organizations of all sizes have faced increased pressure to quickly implement remote work policies and the technologies necessary to put them into effect. To support IT teams responsible for ensuring employee productivity, organizational security, and business continuity, Absolute has decided to offer free access to its Application Persistence for VPN service to all its Visibility and Control to the fullest. August 31, 2020. Please note that the service does not work for all VPNs and only Cisco AnyConnect secure mobility client, Edge F5 BIG-IP client, and Pulse Connect Secure are supported at this time. Keeping VPN clients up-to-date and properly configured remains a challenge for many businesses, and the upcoming 'Absolute Endpoint Resiliency Status Report 2020' revealed that nearly half of devices end up with a VPN client installed having one that is misconfigured, out of date, or does not meet the requirements.