Absolute + HP: Endpoint Resilience That Recovers
Absolute Persistence® is already in HP Elite, Pro, and ZBook firmware. Activate it to keep your fleet recoverable.
HP protects. Absolute keeps it recoverable.
HP Wolf Security protects HP PCs from the BIOS up through the browser, isolating threats before they become incidents. Absolute Persistence adds a firmware-embedded resilience layer that survives OS wipes and tampering, and Absolute Resilience automatically repairs your encryption, VPN, and EDR agents when they are disabled, removed, or changed.
How Absolute and HP work better together
You can't stop every attack, but you can recover faster if your security can heal itself. HP hardens the device from the BIOS up, and Absolute keeps your fleet recoverable no matter what happens.
Absolute Persistence ships in the firmware of HP Elite, Pro, and ZBook devices, ready to activate the moment IT deploys them.
HP's 2026 EliteBook AI PC spec sheets list the Absolute Persistence module right alongside HP Wolf Security features.
Get Absolute through your HP sales team alongside the devices you already buy, so resilience isn't a separate procurement project.
Absolute Control adds geo-fencing and automated, custom on-screen messaging to detect and respond to device movement in real time.
Freeze, wipe, or recover any HP device, on or off the network
Absolute Secure Endpoint gives IT a persistent, firmware-level connection to every HP device in the fleet. Monitor device health, enforce compliance policies, and remotely freeze or wipe a compromised device — even if it's offline, reimaged, or has had its hard drive replaced.
Single-click recovery for compromised HP devices
Absolute Rehydrate remotely restores an HP device to a trusted, compliant state in minutes — even if the OS or security tools have crashed, been compromised, or corrupted by ransomware.
Mapped to the Cyber Resilience Framework
Gartner's model for building cyber resilience — anticipate, withstand, recover, and adapt — maps directly to how HP and Absolute secure every stage of the endpoint lifecycle.
Anticipate
HP's self-healing BIOS (Sure Start) and secure supply chain reduce risk before a device ever reaches an employee's desk.
Absolute Persistence is embedded in firmware at the factory and ships turned off, ready for IT to activate at deployment.
HP verifies firmware integrity at every boot while Absolute stands ready to activate, so protection starts at deployment, not after an incident.
Withstand
HP Wolf Security's micro-VM isolation and Sure Run keep critical security processes running even under active attack.
Absolute Persistence operates below the OS and self-heals; Absolute Resilience automatically repairs tampered tools like encryption, VPN, or EDR.
HP keeps critical processes running under attack, and Absolute restores the encryption, VPN, and EDR tools your fleet depends on.
Recover
HP Sure Start and Sure Recover restore a corrupted or tampered device to a known-good state automatically.
If a device is compromised or unresponsive, Absolute Rehydrate remotely restores it to a trusted, compliant state in minutes.
HP restores firmware and OS integrity, and Absolute Rehydrate adds remote recovery playbooks that run across HP and mixed-OEM fleets.
Adapt
HP's ongoing threat research and quantum-resistant firmware roadmap continuously evolve protections against emerging threats.
Absolute's telemetry gives security and IT teams the fleet-wide data to see what failed, why, and where policy needs to change.
Pair HP's threat research with Absolute's fleet-wide recovery data to tighten policy before the next incident.
Gartner, Gartner’s Cyber Resilience Framework: Anticipate, Withstand, Recover and Adapt, Arthur Sivanathan, Lampis Alevizos, Phillip Shattan, Richard Addiscott, 21 May 2026. GARTNER is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates.
Ransomware hits an HP laptop. Here's what happens next.
Security tools knocked offline
Ransomware reaches an HP laptop and shuts off the encryption and EDR agents meant to stop it.
Absolute raises the alarm
Absolute Persistence stays connected below the OS and flags the device's failing security stack.
Remote recovery triggered
IT runs an Absolute Rehydrate playbook remotely, restoring the device to a trusted, known-good state in minutes.
Security tools restored
Encryption, VPN, and EDR agents reinstall automatically; the device is back to work with no truck roll.
Scenario: a ransomware attack on an HP device
Recovered in minutes, not days
When endpoints go dark, every hour counts
Absolute's 2026 research with 1,000 CISOs shows what endpoint downtime really costs, and why recovery that runs itself is now the goal.
Frequently asked questions
Absolute Persistence is factory-embedded in HP commercial devices, including HP Elite, HP Pro, and ZBook models.
HP Wolf Security protects HP PCs from the BIOS up through the browser, isolating threats before they cause damage. Absolute complements it by keeping your devices and security tools recoverable if something gets through, across HP and non-HP devices alike.
Because Absolute Persistence is embedded below the operating system, it survives OS reinstalls and factory resets, and Absolute Rehydrate can remotely restore the device to a trusted state in minutes.
HP ships the Absolute Persistence module turned off. It activates only with an Absolute license and agent, available from Absolute or your HP sales team.
Yes. Absolute can geofence, lock, locate, and recover a device remotely, on or off the network — capabilities that have helped recover tens of thousands of devices worldwide.
Yes. Absolute provides automated compliance monitoring, security enforcement, and reporting to help HP customers meet regulatory standards such as NIST, HIPAA, and GDPR.