While software vulnerabilities are more prevalent, hardware flaws aren’t anything new. And, they are back in the news again with more vulnerability disclosures at the processor level, this time impacting AMD chips. Most organizations have at least a few legacy machines still churning away, either because it’s a dusty relic of a long-passed merger, it’s simply been forgotten about, or because it still works and budgets are tight. Logical,...

Traditional endpoint security solutions that rely on a fallible agent is an inadequate line of defense – this isn’t news to most. For security that survives attacks you need to go deeper, to the firmware, allowing today’s dynamic endpoints to self-heal and impenetrable to negligent users or attackers. At Absolute, we can lay out this value claim but we don’t expect you to take our word for it. In...

Regular risk assessments are a part of any security strategy, but under the upcoming GDPR regulations, they will be a requirement. GDPR requires that organizations carry out a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) with a focus on data protection obligations to protect individuals’ expectations of privacy. Failure to conduct a DPIA is considered a breach of the GDPR and could lead to fines of up to 2 percent of...