Cyber Resilience Framework: Anticipate, Withstand, Recover and Adapt by Gartner®
Cyber Resilience Framework: Anticipate, Withstand, Recover and Adapt by Gartner®
In our view, this Gartner® report offers essential guidance for security leaders operating in an "assume breach" world, helping organizations shift from prevention alone to survivability, so critical operations keep running even under attack.
Is Your Organization Built to Survive an Attack?
Disruptive cyberattacks are no longer a question of if, but when. Stopping every attack is no longer a realistic goal, and boards increasingly measure cybersecurity success by how well the business keeps operating through an incident, not by whether an incident occurs at all.
This complimentary Gartner® report introduces a framework for building cyber resilience as a continuous cycle: anticipate the threats most likely to hit your critical systems, withstand attacks while maintaining essential services, recover quickly and safely, and adapt based on lessons learned. It also outlines the capabilities security leaders should prioritize at each stage — and why cross-functional collaboration and executive buy-in are essential to making resilience stick.
Key topics covered in this cyber resilience framework report:
- Why "assume breach" demands a shift from prevention alone to survivability — and how resilience becomes a strategic advantage
- How the four stages of the framework — anticipate, withstand, recover, and adapt — work together as a continuous, reinforcing cycle
- How to identify and protect your minimum viable organization (MVO) so critical business functions keep running through a disruption
- Which capabilities to prioritize at each stage, from threat-informed risk assessment to immutable backups and post-incident learning
- How to embed resilience into governance, enterprise risk management, and board reporting
Download the complimentary Gartner report to learn how to minimize business disruption and strengthen your organization’s resilience posture.
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.
As a CIO, Absolute Secure Endpoint gives me peace of mind so I can sleep at night. It has strengthened our security posture, allowing us to stay in compliance and giving us that extra level of comfort.
Cyber Resilience Framework: Anticipate, Withstand, Recover and Adapt by Gartner®
Explore the Gartner® framework security leaders can use to anticipate threats, withstand attacks, recover quickly, and adapt continuously.
In our view, this Gartner® report offers essential guidance for security leaders operating in an "assume breach" world, helping organizations shift from prevention alone to survivability, so critical operations keep running even under attack.
Is Your Organization Built to Survive an Attack?
Disruptive cyberattacks are no longer a question of if, but when. Stopping every attack is no longer a realistic goal, and boards increasingly measure cybersecurity success by how well the business keeps operating through an incident, not by whether an incident occurs at all.
This complimentary Gartner® report introduces a framework for building cyber resilience as a continuous cycle: anticipate the threats most likely to hit your critical systems, withstand attacks while maintaining essential services, recover quickly and safely, and adapt based on lessons learned. It also outlines the capabilities security leaders should prioritize at each stage — and why cross-functional collaboration and executive buy-in are essential to making resilience stick.
Key topics covered in this cyber resilience framework report:
- Why "assume breach" demands a shift from prevention alone to survivability — and how resilience becomes a strategic advantage
- How the four stages of the framework — anticipate, withstand, recover, and adapt — work together as a continuous, reinforcing cycle
- How to identify and protect your minimum viable organization (MVO) so critical business functions keep running through a disruption
- Which capabilities to prioritize at each stage, from threat-informed risk assessment to immutable backups and post-incident learning
- How to embed resilience into governance, enterprise risk management, and board reporting
Download the complimentary Gartner report to learn how to minimize business disruption and strengthen your organization’s resilience posture.
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.
Frequently asked questions about Absolute Security
The Absolute® Platform leverages a cloud-based, highly-available and secure multi-tenant architecture that is available across different regions. It’s comprised of a variety of foundational components that power Absolute product features that are being leveraged by the company’s enterprise customers and ecosystems partners (e.g., independent software vendors, original equipment manufacturers, or managed service providers) alike.
Yes. Absolute allows IT teams to remotely track, lock, and secure devices, ensuring that sensitive public sector data remains protected even if endpoints are lost or compromised.
The Absolute Platform consists of three core components:
- Absolute Persistence Technology
Absolute Persistence® technology, a unique, patented technology is already embedded in over 600 million devices as a result of Absolute’s partnership with nearly 30 system manufacturers from around the world. Once activated, this technology is fiercely resilient and is the only solution to survive attempts to disable it, even if the device is re-imaged, the hard drive is replaced, or the firmware is updated.
No other technology can do this. Ultimately, it provides a secure, unbreakable, and always-on connection between the Absolute Platform and the endpoint, allowing you to gain unprecedented real-time visibility, control, and remediation capabilities.
- Absolute Resilience Technology
The Absolute Platform utilizes two types of patented Absolute Resilience™ technology to ensure that mission-critical applications remain healthy and operational and to provide end users with the most productive, as well as optimized remote access experience possible:
- Application Resilience™: Monitors mission-critical applications’ health and behavior; detects if missing, corrupted, or not running; and automatically repairs or re-installs components when necessary – without requiring human intervention. Application Resilience ensures security controls are working as expected and provides optimal user experience by fixing unhealthy applications. Currently more than 60 mission-critical applications are enabled for Application Resilience and more are being added frequently.
- Network Resilience™: Monitors and automatically, as well as transparently restores and optimizes unhealthy network connections so networked applications continue to operate without end user-impacting interruptions that would otherwise require manual application restarts, network re-connects, and/or re-authentications. Network Resilience allows for superior connectivity and reliability, allowing end users to focus on their tasks and not network behavior.
- Absolute Intelligence
Absolute ensures a digital tether to each device remains intact, providing you with reliable insights and intelligence from all of your endpoints to the network edge — on or off your corporate network.
Hundreds of data points are gathered and served up as insights, providing guidance on utilization, health, security and compliance posture, as well as a unified view into the entire end user experience. Applying AI-based risk assessment and user entity behavior analytics lets you go beyond the monitoring of resources and applications, allowing for automated remediation and uncompromised user productivity.
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
As a CIO, Absolute Secure Endpoint gives me peace of mind so I can sleep at night. It has strengthened our security posture, allowing us to stay in compliance and giving us that extra level of comfort.