Absolute Security Named in 2025 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Zero-Trust Technology
Absolute Security Named in 2025 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Zero-Trust Technology
Navigate the Future of Cybersecurity with a Strategic Zero-Trust Framework
Zero trust has become a strategic imperative for organizations seeking to mitigate risk and standardize secure access. As advancements in AI, automation, and endpoint security accelerate adoption, security leaders must prioritize the right technology innovations to build a resilient security posture.
Absolute Security is named as a Sample Vendor in the Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA) category of the 2025 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Zero-Trust Technology.
This recognition underscores Absolute's commitment to delivering innovative solutions that enable organizations to adopt a mature zero-trust strategy, safeguard hybrid environments, and mitigate emerging threats.
Our Key Insights from the Gartner® Report
Zero trust is more than a single technology; it is a strategic framework that guides the implementation of specific architectures across your entire environment. Distinguishing genuine best practices from marketing hype is a significant challenge for security and risk management leaders.
This report delivers valuable guidance to help you build a future-ready zero-trust strategy, such as:
- Leverage AI for adaptive security and implement automation to accelerate threat detection and streamline endpoint management.
- Expand zero-trust principles beyond traditional IT to safeguard devices and data across hybrid environments, IoT, and edge computing.
- Prepare for emerging threats by investing in postquantum security through cryptographic agility and advanced authentication methods.
Why We Think This Report Matters
Effective zero-trust implementation requires close collaboration between cybersecurity and I&O leaders, supported by significant investment in people, processes, and technology. This Hype Cycle™ identifies key emerging and established technologies that security and risk management leaders should prioritize to align with zero-trust principles and achieve organizational risk mitigation goals.
Download the complimentary Gartner® report today to fortify your security strategy.
Gartner, Hype Cycle for Zero-Trust Technology, 2025, Tiffany Taylor, Andrew Lerner, 1 August 2025.
GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and HYPE CYCLE is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
I often describe our IT toolkit as a Swiss Army knife, and Absolute Secure Access is one of the most valuable tools in it. It gives us the flexibility to meet tight deadlines, adapt to constraints, and solve problems quickly. There are so many things I no longer have to worry about thanks to Absolute Secure Access — it’s made my job significantly easier.
Absolute Security Named in 2025 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Zero-Trust Technology
In our view, Gartner® Hype Cycle™ provides a clear framework for evaluating and deploying the technologies that are most effective in advancing your organization’s zero-trust strategy.
Navigate the Future of Cybersecurity with a Strategic Zero-Trust Framework
Zero trust has become a strategic imperative for organizations seeking to mitigate risk and standardize secure access. As advancements in AI, automation, and endpoint security accelerate adoption, security leaders must prioritize the right technology innovations to build a resilient security posture.
Absolute Security is named as a Sample Vendor in the Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA) category of the 2025 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Zero-Trust Technology.
This recognition underscores Absolute's commitment to delivering innovative solutions that enable organizations to adopt a mature zero-trust strategy, safeguard hybrid environments, and mitigate emerging threats.
Our Key Insights from the Gartner® Report
Zero trust is more than a single technology; it is a strategic framework that guides the implementation of specific architectures across your entire environment. Distinguishing genuine best practices from marketing hype is a significant challenge for security and risk management leaders.
This report delivers valuable guidance to help you build a future-ready zero-trust strategy, such as:
- Leverage AI for adaptive security and implement automation to accelerate threat detection and streamline endpoint management.
- Expand zero-trust principles beyond traditional IT to safeguard devices and data across hybrid environments, IoT, and edge computing.
- Prepare for emerging threats by investing in postquantum security through cryptographic agility and advanced authentication methods.
Why We Think This Report Matters
Effective zero-trust implementation requires close collaboration between cybersecurity and I&O leaders, supported by significant investment in people, processes, and technology. This Hype Cycle™ identifies key emerging and established technologies that security and risk management leaders should prioritize to align with zero-trust principles and achieve organizational risk mitigation goals.
Download the complimentary Gartner® report today to fortify your security strategy.
Gartner, Hype Cycle for Zero-Trust Technology, 2025, Tiffany Taylor, Andrew Lerner, 1 August 2025.
GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and HYPE CYCLE is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
FAQs about the Absolute Platform
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.
Other foundational components of the Absolute Platform that enable the Absolute Secure Endpoint™ and Secure Access™ products are as follows:
- Web console
- Mobile app
- Rules and policy engine
- Alerts
- Dashboards
- APIs
- Application Persistence-as-a-Service SDK
- Third-party integrations (e.g., SIEM, ITSM)
Absolute Resilience for Automation is the highest product edition in the Absolute Secure Endpoint product portfolio, offering automated remediation of operating system, software and security vulnerabilities to eliminate risk and reduce an organization’s attack surface. It combines all the capabilities of Absolute Visibility™, Absolute Control™, Absolute Resilience™ and Absolute Resilience for Security™ with two critical features, Remediate and Automate.
Absolute Enterprise converges Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Private Access (ZTNA), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) into a single platform. Absolute Enterprise provides real-time data and threat protection against advanced zero-day and cloud-enabled threats and offers Endpoint Compliance that enables additional visibility, control, and resilience on devices.
I often describe our IT toolkit as a Swiss Army knife, and Absolute Secure Access is one of the most valuable tools in it. It gives us the flexibility to meet tight deadlines, adapt to constraints, and solve problems quickly. There are so many things I no longer have to worry about thanks to Absolute Secure Access — it’s made my job significantly easier.