What’s a dropped connection costing you when lives or revenue are at stake?
Downtime cost per hour for a large enterprise
Source: Absolute Security, Resilient CISO ebook
Compliance failure rate specific to SSE and VPN tools
Source: Absolute Security, Resilience Risk Index 2025
Of organizations support a remote or mobile workforce
Source: Absolute Security, Resilient CISO ebook
The gap between "secure" and "stays connected"
Office-built Zero Trust treats a connection as present or gone. In the field, that binary is the outage. Cloud SSE and ZTNA can’t secure traffic they never receive, and PoP breadth doesn’t matter if the device can’t reach the cloud. Client-side enforcement through dead zones is a lane they don’t contest.
Session drops the instant cellular stutters or roams to Wi-Fi
Every dropped connection forces a full re-authentication loop
No visibility into why the connection failed in the field
Network providers and equipment get blamed; root cause never found
Frozen CAD/dispatch screens during active incidents
Unsaved work and lost data on every reconnect
Officer/technician safety risk when systems go dark
IT buried in "the network is broken" tickets
Persistent, self-healing tunnel survives jitter, packet loss, and network handoffs
Sessions survive pauses of hours, with no re-login or lost work.
High availability with automatic failover during outages or disasters
Firmware-embedded Persistence™ keeps the client itself unkillable
Mission continuity, even when the network itself can't
Ironclad, audit-ready CJIS /compliance posture
Officers and field staff focus on the job, not the tools
IT support loads and help desk tickets drop measurably
No software can manufacture a signal where none exists. When coverage truly drops, crews fall back to voice-over-radio relay of CA authentication storms, no frozen screens, no lost work when coverage returns.
Model the ROI of keeping your network connected
Absolute Network Resilience ROI Benchmark
Provided by Absolute, not user-adjustable
Efficiency gain on mission-critical mobile applications
Reduction in helpdesk call volume
What a lower MTTR buys back
Every connectivity case that never opens, and every one that resolves faster, hands time back to the people actually doing the job. What that looks like depends on the workforce.
Faster billing, less cash sitting idle
Visits close out and invoices go out the same day instead of waiting for a signal — cash keeps moving instead of sitting in a queue.
More time on patrol, lesson paperwork
Officers spend fewer minutes fighting a connection and more time on the street, with faster report filing once the data reaches them.
More billable hours, six minutes at a time
Trains, planes, and transit stop being dead time — professionals who bill in six-minute increments get more of the commute back as billable work.
Fewer tickets, more strategic work
When connectivity stops generating cases, IT stops firefighting issues and does more work that actually moves the business forward.
Built for organizations where connectivity can't fail
From in-vehicle fire and patrol units to 911 dispatch, global financial advisory, and aviation ground ops — organizations rely on Absolute Secure Access to keep mission-critical work running when the network won't cooperate.
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service
50 fire stations, 24/7/365 emergency response. Firefighters on Panasonic Toughbooks get resilient, self-healing connectivity from the endpoint to the edge — freeing crews to focus on saving lives instead of troubleshooting devices.
Emergency Communications of Southern Oregon
Dispatch for 28 agencies and 200,000+ residents across 220 fire and police vehicles, with CJIS-compliant device visibility and control even when connections in the field are unreliable.
Fraport
Managing 61M passengers a year leaves no room for dropped sessions. Fraport eliminated connectivity trouble tickets and hit its 45-minute aircraft turnaround goal after deploying Absolute Secure Access.
Lincoln International
1,200+ employees across 25+ offices in 15 countries connect via Absolute Secure Access — cloud tunnels that stay up outside the firm's core environment, with compromised devices reimaged and reconnected in 30–45 minutes to stop downtime before it spreads.
Want the real numbers, not the estimate?
This calculator uses fixed, publicly sourced benchmarks so you can explore the shape of the opportunity. For your actual device count, edition, incident history, and negotiated pricing, Absolute's team will build a customized ROI model with you — free, no obligation.
- Downtime cost per hour, compliance failure rate, and security-control-failure rate: Absolute Security, Resilient CISO ebook and Resilience Risk Index 2025 — absolute.com/resources/research-reports/resilience-risk-index-2025.
- 25% mobile work management efficiency gain: TasNetworks customer case study, published on Absolute's Customer Success Stories hub — absolute.com/customers/case-studies.
- 50% reduction in helpdesk call volume: New South Construction customer case study — absolute.com/customers/case-studies/new-south-construction
- Zero connectivity trouble tickets, 45-minute turnaround goal: Fraport customer case study — absolute.com/customers/case-studies/fraport.
- Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service, "Time Saved = Lives Saved": absolute.com/customers/case-studies/dwfrs.
- Emergency Communications of Southern Oregon: absolute.com/customers/case-studies/emergency-communications-of-southern-oregon.
- Lincoln International — 1,200+ employees, 25+ offices, devices reimaged and reconnected in 30–45 minutes: absolute.com/customers/case-studies/lincoln-international.
- Absolute Network Resilience™ product description: Absolute Security product documentation.
- Daily micro-disruption model — "small disruptions avoided per user per day," "minutes per disruption," and "estimated productivity loss" mirror the fields and methodology of Absolute's internal Secure Access Impact dashboard, which tracks disruptions avoided during network loss and during roam. Figures shown here are illustrative defaults, not a specific customer's telemetry.
Incident-scenario hours and per-incident recovery costs (field dropout, site outage, re-auth storm), the 260-workday/year assumption, the daily micro-disruption defaults, and the $92/user/year investment figure 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. Every fixed benchmark card above 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.