Absolute Ransomware Response addresses the following negative consequences when it comes to falling victim to a ransomware attack and facing delays in recovery efforts for endpoints:

• Prolonged shutdown of company’s business operations, specifically user recovery and endpoint restoration.
• Lower employee productivity due to lengthy recovery efforts for remote devices.
• Increased support costs from higher volume of help desk tickets by panicked end users when encountering ransom notices on their devices.
• Financial loss associated with complex remediation efforts.
• Risk of burn out and high attrition due to the demands being put on hard-pressed IT admin and security teams when it comes to recovery efforts for endpoints.
• Reputational damages due to extended outages.

The Absolute Ransomware Response product delivers the following capabilities:

• Check Strategic Ransomware Readiness Across Endpoints
• Enable Ransomware Cyber Hygiene Across Endpoints
• Report on Hardware and Software Inventory
• Assess Device Security Posture 
• Discover Sensitive Endpoint Data
• Secure, On-Device End User Communications
• Freeze At-Risk Devices 
• Expedite Recovery Tasks 
• Self-Healing for Endpoint Security Tools
• Self-Healing for Device Management Tools
• Assist in Ransomware Recovery for Endpoints

At the beginning of the engagement, a professional services technical consultant will review the existing standard security controls across endpoints, identifying key controls (e.g., anti-virus/anti-malware, endpoint protection, or endpoint detection and response solutions) and device management tools that are required to minimize ransomware exposure and assure expedited recovery efforts.

At the beginning of the engagement, a professional services technical consultant will help establish application resilience policies to ensure that identified mission-critical security applications and device management tools are installed and functioning as intended. In addition, a professional services technical consultant will train customer personnel on how to continuously monitor application health and apply these baseline policies to new devices as they are enrolled.

A professional services technical consultant will remotely help in endpoint recovery efforts for up to two incidents per year, following a pre-defined playbook and leveraging the existing Absolute product capabilities.

Absolute Ransomware Response is available on Windows devices only since it is the most common OS-target for ransomware attacks.

Absolute Ransomware Response yields the following benefits:

• Check customer’s strategic ransomware readiness
• Establish a cyber hygiene baseline across endpoints
• Expedite recovery tasks
• Provide remote assistance in endpoint recovery efforts by sharing proven expertise, putting less demands on hard-pressed IT admin and security teams.

The Absolute Ransomware Response Add-On for Control customers delivers Ransomware Readiness Check, Ransomware Cyber Hygiene Enablement, Ransomware Recovery Assistance, Reach, Endpoint Data Discovery, as well as Self-Healing for one management application (e.g., Microsoft SCCM, Microsoft Intune) and one anti-malware application.

The Absolute Ransomware Response Add-On for Resilience customers delivers Ransomware Readiness Check, Ransomware Cyber Hygiene Enablement, and Ransomware Recovery Assistance.