What’s a slow recovery costing you when an outage takes your endpoints offline?

ENDPOINT RESILIENCE · ROI CALCULATOR

Endpoint protection and EDR tools detect and block threats, but none are 100% effective, and none limit what follows: the outage, plus the weeks or months it takes to recover. This calculator puts a number on that gap.

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$540K / hour

Median downtime cost at 1,000+ employee enterprises

Source: ITIC, 2025 Hourly Cost of Downtime Survey

24 days

Average business downtime from a ransomware incident

Source: Sophos, State of Ransomware 2025

$44M/company

Average Fortune 500 company loss from a July 2024 IT outage

Source: Parametrix Insurance

CYBERSECURITY'S MISSING LINK

You might be protected. But are you resilient?

Security tools have blind spots. Prevention and detection aren't enough if endpoints become difficult to see, control, and secure once a control fails, drifts, or is removed.
The undeniable missing link: resilience.

WHAT IF THESE FAIL?

EDR / Endpoint Management / XDR

Firewall / NGFW

IAM / Zero Trust

SIEM / SOC

Cloud Security

Vulnerability Management

THE GAP

Controls fail silently

Agents drift, removed unseen

No recovery

Protection ≠ Resilience

Too slow

Manual response can’t match attacks

ABSOLUTE CLOSES THE GAP

FIRMWARE-EMBEDDED

Unbreakable Tether.
Always On. Always Protected.

Autonomous self-healing

100% endpoint visibility

Instant autonomous recovery

AI-driven threat response

Audit-ready compliance

YOU'RE DOWNTIME RESILIENT

65%

less downtime

min. to self-heal a failed agent

312%

3-year ROI*

Agent self-healing (minutes) and business downtime reduction (hours/days) are different clocks: the <4-minute figure is how fast a failed security agent restores itself; the 65% reduction is the resulting drop in overall business downtime, modeled below. Real-world proof: in July 2024, a routine software update from CrowdStrike — not an attacker — caused an estimated $5.4B in direct losses across 124 Fortune 500 companies, averaging $44M per company.

Source: Parametrix Insurance, analysis of the July 19, 2024 CrowdStrike-related outage.

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ENDPOINT RESILIENCE INTERACTIVE CALCULATOR

Adjust the assumptions below to reflect your environment. Every field is editable — the defaults are starting points based on published industry benchmarks, not guarantees.

Your business

Annual company revenue

Number of endpoints / devices

Number of employees

Used to translate revenue protected into a per-employee figure — headcount, not device count.

Revenue at risk during a disruption35%

Share of revenue exposed to lost sales, stalled operations, SLA penalties, and customer/partner disruption while systems are down.

For context: this implies an hourly downtime cost of $79,909 — 6.8x below the $540,000/hour ITIC median for enterprises this size, a conservative planning assumption.

Revenue recaptured after the incident50%

Most enterprise downtime is deferred, not destroyed — backlog gets fulfilled, deferred purchases still happen. This is the share of at-risk revenue your business recovers after operations resume.

Incident profile

Incident type

Downtime per incident (hours)120

Incremental recovery cost per incident

IR, forensics, remediation, legal, and notification costs — excludes revenue lost to downtime, which is modeled separately.

Incidents expected per year1.5

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Your results

Computed live from your inputs + Absolute's fixed benchmarks.

Annual cost
— without resilience

$7.79M

Downtime + recovery cost, unmitigated

Annual cost
— with Absolute Resilience

$2.85M

After downtime & recovery reduction

Estimated net annual savings

$4.19M

After subtracting $750K in annual investment

Both sides of the same P&L, viewed two ways — an expense line and a top-line one. Recovered time only exists once; don't add these together.

Payback period

1.8 mo

Time to recover the investment

ROI

559%

Net savings ÷ Absolute Resilience investment

Revenue protected annually

$4.67M

Top-line: revenue no longer lost to downtime

Revenue protected per employee

$1,169

Revenue protected ÷ headcount

Revenue protected isolates the top-line (P&L revenue) benefit of less downtime; ROI and net savings above also net out the bottom-line benefit of lower recovery costs and the Absolute Resilience investment. This ROI% and Forrester's 312% three-year ROI aren't the same measure: Forrester's figure is a multi-year, real-customer Total Economic Impact study; the figure above is this single illustrative scenario's annualized savings against the Absolute Resilience subscription cost alone, not full program cost.

Downtime hours per year

Without 180 hrs

With 63 hrs

Annual cost of downtime & recovery

Without $7.79M

With $2.85M

*Illustrative ROI tool — not an official quote. Results will vary. All customer statistics cited from published Absolute Security case studies and research.

Absolute Endpoint Resilience ROI Benchmark

Provided by Absolute, not user-adjustable

65%

Downtime reduction

Forrester, as cited by Absolute Security

45%

Recovery-cost reduction

Absolute Security modeled estimate

$150/endpoint/yr

Estimated investment

Illustrative full-cost estimate — your quote may differ

Reflects always-on firmware-embedded connectivity and self-healing that automatically restores tampered, deleted, or failed security agents— without waiting on IT to touch every device. These figures are set by Absolute based on published benchmarks and modeling, not adjustable here — a custom assessment will refine them for your environment.

= $750,000 total annual investment (5,000 endpoints × $150)

WHERE DOWNTIME ISN'T AN OPTION

Built for the failures endpoint security (EDR, EPP, EPM) can't fix

Healthcare, education, legal, government, and energy customers running Absolute Secure Endpoint where lost devices, silent agent failures, and compliance gaps aren't an option.

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Healthcare

NHS Royal Free London

One of London's largest NHS trusts recovered 55 missing devices in a single year with Absolute Secure

Endpoint — protecting patient data and avoiding the

cost of replacing lost equipment.

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Education · K-12

GOAL High School

GOAL High School cut its device loss rate by roughly 50% after deploying Absolute Secure Endpoint, keeping learning devices — and the budget to replace them — in students' hands.

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Energy & utilities · Mining

IGO Limited

Across distributed mine sites with unreliable connectivity, IGO Limited achieved persistent endpoint visibility and operational resilience with Absolute Secure Endpoint — even when devices go off-network for weeks.

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Legal · Law firm

Smith Anderson

Smith Anderson secures its endpoint environment with Absolute Secure Endpoint, safeguarding confidential client information and maintaining the compliance standards its clients demand.

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Government · Tourism

Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board

The Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board meets strict compliance and endpoint security requirements with Absolute Secure Endpoint, keeping its device fleet visible and audit-ready.

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IT Services

Tietoevry

Tietoevry’s six-person IT team manages 25,000 devices worldwide with Absolute Secure Endpoint, reaching a 114% device return rate and reusing 95% of returned hardware.

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Your numbers are estimates. Your risk isn't.

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This calculator uses fixed, publicly sourced benchmarks to show the shape of the opportunity. For your environment (device count, incident history, negotiated pricing), Absolute’s team will build a custom ROI model with you, free and with no obligation.

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Methodology & sources

Downtime cost per hour: ITIC, 2025 Hourly Cost of Downtime Survey — median $9,000/minute ($540,000/hour) for enterprises with 1,000+ employees, as reported via outagecost.com/cost-of-it-downtime.
Ransomware downtime and recovery cost: Sophos, The State of Ransomware 2025 — average 24 days of downtime and $1.53M average recovery cost (excluding any ransom) per incident — sophos.com/en-us/blog/the-state-of-ransomware-2025.
Breach cost: IBM, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 — average global cost of $4.44M ($10.22M in the U.S.) — ibm.com/think/x-force/2025-cost-of-a-data-breach-navigating-ai. (IBM's figure covers breach detection and containment, a different clock than the endpoint downtime modeled in this calculator, and is included for context only.)
Fortune 500 outage impact: Parametrix Insurance analysis of the July 19, 2024 CrowdStrike-related outage — an estimated $5.4B in direct losses across 124 Fortune 500 companies, averaging $44M per company — parametrixinsurance.com/reports-white-papers/crowdstrikes-impact-on-the-fortune-500.
Absolute Resilience ROI: Forrester, as cited by Absolute Security — up to 312% three-year ROI, less than 6-month payback, and 65% less downtime — absolute.com/why-absolute. This is the sole source for the 65% and 312% figures used above.
Customer outcomes: NHS Royal Free London, GOAL High School, IGO Limited, Smith Anderson, and Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board, published on Absolute's Customer Case Studies hub — absolute.com/customers/case-studies.

Incident-type presets (downtime hours and recovery cost for the malware and failed-update scenarios), the "revenue recaptured after the incident" factor, the 45% recovery-cost reduction, and the $150/endpoint annual investment are illustrative planning inputs for this calculator, not published Absolute prices or third-party research — they exist so you can stress-test the model with your own numbers. The ROI% and payback figures above reflect this single scenario's savings against the Absolute Resilience subscription cost only; they are not the same measure as Forrester's multi-year, real-customer Total Economic Impact study and should not be compared directly to it. Every fixed benchmark card traces to a named, linked source. This tool provides directional estimates only and is not a quote; request a custom analysis for figures you can take to a budget conversation.