Resilient Public Safety Cybersecurity Solutions for Mission-Critical Response
Protect sensitive criminal justice and emergency response data, support CJIS-aligned security across every distributed device, and maintain mission continuity with cyber resilience built into the device itself. Absolute keeps dispatch, records, and field connectivity running for law enforcement, fire, EMS, and dispatch teams, on or off the network, even under active attack.
Securing distributed public safety operations
In public safety IT, you're not just protecting an office network. You're safeguarding rugged laptops, patrol vehicles, dispatch systems, and 911/CAD access, often off-network and across unreliable coverage, where most traditional security tools fail the moment a device drops off, an agent stops reporting, or a control is disabled. To keep an agency operational, IT teams are working through three connected challenges:
- Ransomware and mission disruption: Ransomware locks agencies out of dispatch, records, and communications systems, halting response and eroding public trust. Agencies need to stop disruption in minutes, not hours or days, and restore service before lives are put at risk.
- CJIS and compliance complexity: Agencies must support the CJIS Security Policy and prove control over distributed endpoints, while manual reporting drains already-limited resources. Teams need continuous visibility, automated evidence, and audit readiness across the fleet.
- Off-network device control and secure access: Field devices constantly leave the network, yet security controls must persist, and responders still need reliable access. Agencies need unbreakable visibility that survives loss, theft, reimaging, and tampering, plus resilient connectivity wherever response happens.
Absolute's autonomous cyber resilience platform keeps devices, applications, and controls working under operational stress, so response never stops.
of state/local government orgs hit by ransomware in 2024.
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in downtime from 525 ransomware attacks on U.S. government orgs.
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endpoint tool failure rate, up to 76 days/year exposed.
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With Absolute Security, you can…
Turn audit season into a non-event. With continuous visibility and automated reporting, support CJIS-aligned security across your entire fleet, reduce manual effort, and strengthen audit readiness, without the manual scramble.
Give your teams clearer evidence that sensitive criminal justice data stays protected, wherever devices operate, with compliance automation that closes gaps before they become findings.
Maintain an unbreakable connection to every laptop and rugged field device, on or off the agency network, and manage every device in your fleet from a single console. Firmware-embedded endpoint security survives operating system reinstalls, drive replacement, and tampering attempts.
Get complete visibility into each device’s location, security posture, and inventory, down to the firmware level, so a missing tablet or Toughbook doesn’t turn into a data-loss incident. Critical control functions like remote data wipe, device freeze, geofencing, and automated self-healing for essential applications keep endpoints resilient and secure at all times.
Give officers, responders, and dispatch teams seamless, least-privilege access to CAD, RMS, dispatch, and communications systems: a zero trust architecture that enforces identity and device posture without the constant disconnects and repeated logins of legacy VPNs.
A secure, optimized tunnel built for modern workforce mobility delivers reliable connectivity across intermittent coverage using data compression, packet-loss recovery, and Quality-of-Service. Advanced diagnostics reduce help desk calls and downtime in the field, so responders stay connected and focused on the mission.
Stop disruption in minutes, not hours or days, when facing a ransomware attack. Self-healing endpoint security automatically restores mission-critical applications to a trusted, operational state, delivering true cyber resilience for law enforcement agencies and first responders.
Freeze compromised endpoints, assess the damage, and rapidly restore operations to a trusted state: ransomware protection that keeps response running instead of grinding to a halt.
Protect public safety operations and keep mission-critical response running
CJIS audits shouldn’t mean weeks of manual evidence-gathering. Agencies need to prove control over every device in the fleet, and manual reporting drains resources that should go toward the mission.
Absolute replaces the scramble with continuous, automated evidence.
- Continuous evidence collection: Support CJIS-aligned reporting with always-current data on device posture, encryption, and security control status.
- Automated vulnerability detection: Continuously discover and risk-prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across the fleet.
- Automated patching: Keep remote and field devices current without pulling them out of service.
With Absolute Security, audit readiness becomes a byproduct of daily operations instead of a quarterly fire drill.
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Public safety IT teams spend their days serving the tools: patching agents, chasing off-network devices, rebuilding broken controls, instead of serving the mission.
Absolute shifts that balance, with resilience embedded at the firmware level.
- Application self-healing: Automatically repair or reinstall critical applications and security controls if they fail or are tampered with.
- Always-on visibility: Track and manage devices even when they are off-network, reimaged, or have had a drive replaced, including location, security posture, and inventory.
- Undeletable protection: Firmware-embedded persistence survives everything short of hardware destruction, and geofencing flags unauthorized movement the moment it happens.
Stop serving the tools. Start serving the mission.
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Public safety work happens everywhere except behind a fixed perimeter: in vehicles, at incident scenes, across jurisdictions. Legacy VPNs answer that need with full-network exposure, dropped sessions, and login friction.
Absolute replaces fragile, over-permissive access with resilient, least-privilege connections built for how responders actually work.
- Per-app zero trust access: Grant access to CJIS systems, CAD, RMS, and communications individually, based on identity, device posture, and context, instead of exposing the whole network.
- Survives network degradation: Maintain stable, secure connections despite trunk-mounted mobile routers and rapid movement between coverage zones.
- Replaces fragile VPNs: Modernize legacy access with zero trust that holds up under real operational stress.
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With Absolute Security, responders stay securely connected without expanding your attack surface.
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From IT failure to ransomware, every hour of endpoint downtime interrupts public services and compounds mission risk. Manual recovery (shipping devices, hands-on reimaging) can’t keep pace when lives depend on response.
Absolute recovers compromised devices remotely, in minutes, without waiting on logistics or users.
- Remote quarantine: Freeze compromised endpoints the moment suspicious behavior is detected, protecting sensitive criminal justice data.
- Rapid restoration: Remotely restore affected devices to a fully trusted, compliant state in minutes, after outages, IT issues, or ransomware.
- Resilient security controls: Automatically repair or reinstall critical controls (AV, EDR, VPN) if a user or malware disables them.
Absolute turns incident recovery from a weeks-long crisis into a same-day operation, so response continues.
Learn more about accelerating incident response and endpint recovery.
The autonomous cyber resilience platform built for public safety
Absolute is factory-embedded in more than 600 million endpoints, enabling a persistent, undeletable digital connection to every device. Absolute Persistence keeps visibility and control alive even when devices are wiped, reimaged, or off-network, and endpoint, access, and application resilience work together to keep agencies operational, whether protecting criminal justice data, maintaining secure connectivity, or supporting CJIS-aligned compliance.
What public safety leaders are saying
I can easily track things like launch counts, usage details, battery status, terminations, and network errors. We have yet to see the 'No logon servers' message.
My primary job is to give emergency crews access to critical information wherever and whenever needed so they can focus on saving lives and protecting our community. With Absolute Secure Endpoint and Absolute Secure Access, we’re able to take advantage of endpoint resilience in addition to having secure network access.
Field officers should not worry about a call taking them to an area of poor coverage. Absolute Secure Access is invaluable for helping us defend against these instances. It ultimately enhances officer safety by giving them the information they need as they head into calls. Our IT staff has really noticed the support load reduction as well.
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Frequently asked questions about public safety cybersecurity solutions
Absolute maintains a persistent, firmware-level connection to every device, so agencies can enforce security controls, monitor device posture, and generate continuous reporting that supports a CJIS-aligned security posture, on or off the network. It provides audit-ready evidence that sensitive criminal justice data stays protected across distributed endpoints, turning manual reporting into an automated, always-current exercise. This strengthens compliance posture; it is not a substitute for legal or regulatory review of an agency’s specific CJIS obligations.
Unlike traditional security software, which attackers can uninstall, disable, or corrupt, Absolute is factory-embedded in device firmware. That provides a connection that survives OS reinstalls, drive replacement, and tampering, and automatically self-heals mission-critical security applications. For agencies running rugged, off-network field devices, protection persists precisely where software-only tools fail.
Yes. Absolute’s firmware-embedded connection keeps field devices visible, secure, and manageable anywhere: patrol vehicles, incident scenes, or remote posts, with no dependency on VPN connectivity. Location tracking, geofencing, remote freeze and wipe, and resilient network access all function off-network, so responders stay protected and connected wherever the mission takes them.
Absolute focuses on resilience and recovery, not just prevention. During an incident, a team can remotely quarantine compromised devices, protect sensitive data, and rapidly restore systems to a trusted operational state in minutes, without shipping hardware. Response-critical systems keep running while the incident is contained, turning what once took weeks into a same-day operation.
Yes. Absolute delivers zero trust access to CAD, RMS, dispatch, and communications systems, granting least-privilege access based on identity and device posture rather than exposing the whole network. Its optimized tunnel maintains reliable connectivity across intermittent coverage using data compression, packet-loss recovery, and Quality-of-Service, so responders stay connected even in poor-signal conditions.
Absolute provides real-time geolocation and geofencing for every enrolled device, plus a firmware-level inventory that stays accurate even when a device is off-network, reimaged, or has its drive replaced. Agencies can detect unauthorized movement, freeze or wipe at-risk devices remotely, and recover lost or stolen assets, protecting both sensitive data and taxpayer-funded hardware.