Resilient Energy and Utilities Cybersecurity Solutions for Uninterrupted Field Operations
Keep field crews connected, protect sensitive operational data, and recover fast, even when devices are off-network or under attack. Built for energy, utilities, oil, and gas IT teams, Absolute delivers endpoint and access resilience from firmware to cloud.
Securing distributed energy and utility operations
Energy and utilities cybersecurity solutions must protect more than office networks; they need to secure field laptops, rugged devices, and remote-site endpoints that constantly leave the network. Most traditional tools fail the moment a device disconnects, an agent stops reporting, or a control is disabled, and when utility systems go offline, service delivery and public safety are both at risk. To keep operations running, IT teams are working through three connected challenges:
- Ransomware and operational disruption: Ransomware can halt grid operations, dispatch, field reporting, and service delivery, carrying steep costs and public safety risk. Stopping disruption has to happen in minutes, not hours or days.
- Compliance across a distributed estate: Utilities must prove control across widely dispersed devices for NERC CIP, SOX, and NIS2, while manual reporting drains limited IT resources. That calls for continuous visibility, automated evidence, and audit readiness on or off network.
- Off-network device control and field connectivity: Devices operate in rugged, rural, and remote locations with brittle connectivity. Security controls have to persist, and crews still need dependable access, unbreakable visibility that survives loss, theft, reimaging, and coverage gaps.
Absolute's autonomous cyber resilience platform keeps devices, applications, and controls working under field conditions, so operations never stop.
increase in ransomware activity YoY against the energy and utilities sector.
Trustwave Risk Radar Report, 2025
of major outages exceeded $100,000 in cost.
Uptime Intelligence, 2026
of intrusions started with exploit-based access.
Mandiant Consulting, M-Trends 2025
With Absolute Security, you can…
Give crews reliable, least-privilege access to work orders, GIS, and operational systems, a zero trust architecture that enforces identity and device posture without the constant disconnects of legacy VPNs. Deliver a secure, optimized tunnel built for mobility and the modern edge, so field productivity never waits on the network.
Access is granted one application at a time, based on identity and device health, not by opening the whole network once someone logs in, so a stolen credential can't become a path into GIS or SCADA portals.
Continuously discover and remediate vulnerabilities and missing patches across the fleet, even on remote and off-network devices, closing the exploitable windows attackers rely on instead of waiting for a device to check in.
Patch and remediation workflows reach devices that are off-network for weeks at a time, so a rig laptop or field tablet doesn't sit unpatched until its next depot visit.
Continuously monitor device posture and generate audit-ready evidence mapped to NERC CIP, SOX, and NIS2, turning manual, point-in-time reporting into an always-current record IT can hand to auditors on demand.
That evidence holds even for devices that spend most of their life off the corporate network, so compliance doesn't depend on a device happening to be connected when the audit request comes in.
Cut the flood of connectivity and access tickets that come from dropped VPN sessions and manual reconnections, so IT time goes toward higher-value work instead of the same recurring fixes.
Self-healing security controls and persistent, self-optimizing connections mean fewer repeat calls from the field, and less time spent walking a technician through the same fix twice.
Keep field crews running and every device accounted for: a reality check for energy and utilities IT
Field crews need operational apps from any remote site, and legacy VPNs answer with full-network exposure, dropped sessions, and login friction that generates support tickets.
Absolute Secure Access replaces fragile access with resilient, least-privilege connections built for field conditions.
- Resilient app access: Reliable, per-app access to work orders, GIS, SCADA portals, and operational systems from any remote location.
- Replace fragile VPNs: Zero trust access that survives network degradation, instead of full-tunnel VPN exposure.
- Fewer support tickets: Cut the IT support burden tied to field connectivity problems.
Absolute keeps distributed crews connected and productive without expanding your attack surface.
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Every dropped session in the field stalls work orders, delays reporting, and sends crews hunting for signal instead of doing the job.
Absolute delivers a persistent session layer built for the network conditions utilities actually face.
- Session persistence: Survives interruptions and network switching, keeping operational apps active and logged in.
- Automatic failover and health monitoring: Connectivity health monitoring and automatic failovers keep crews working without manual reconnection.
- Built for diverse networks: Supports cellular, low-bandwidth, and mixed network environments common to remote sites.
Absolute delivers always-on connectivity, so field work continues wherever crews operate.
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Widely dispersed device fleets are hard to see, secure, and account for, and every unmanaged endpoint is a risk, a compliance gap, and wasted budget.
Absolute delivers persistent visibility and control across every device through an undeletable firmware-level tether.
- Undeletable inventory: An always-accurate, firmware-level inventory of every device across the estate.
- Real-time visibility: See location, applications, hardware, and usage in real time, on or off network.
- Enforce and reduce cost: Enforce compliance and reduce cost across a distributed fleet.
With Absolute, you maintain complete oversight of your fleet, optimizing device lifecycle and protecting your investment.
Learn more about asset inventory management.
Operational and regulated data travels on field devices far beyond network boundaries, and a lost or stolen device in the field is both a data risk and a compliance exposure.
Absolute secures sensitive data directly on the device, wherever it goes.
- Remote freeze, wipe, and locate: Render lost, stolen, or compromised devices useless and recover them, anywhere.
- Protect regulated data: Secure operational and regulated data before misuse, without shipping hardware or waiting on users.
- Tamper-resistant control: Firmware-embedded control that survives loss, theft, and reimaging.
Absolute reduces breach likelihood by protecting sensitive data wherever devices travel.
Learn more about securing lost or at-risk devices remotely.
The autonomous cyber resilience platform built for energy and utilities
Absolute is factory-embedded across a large base of endpoints, enabling a persistent digital connection where endpoint, access, and application resilience work together to keep crews operational, as the IT endpoint and access resilience layer that works alongside your OT and ICS controls, not a replacement for them.
Absolute helps strengthen your compliance posture against NERC CIP, CISA guidance, SOX, and NIS2 through continuous visibility, evidence, and audit-ready reporting; it is not a substitute for legal or regulatory review of your specific obligations.
What energy and utility leaders are saying
The flexibility of Absolute Secure Access is amazing. I was able to quickly set up DNS-based split tunneling using granular policies for a group using Teams hosted in the cloud when they suddenly had to work from home. It just worked, which was awesome. There’s no way we could have done that with our old VPN.
We needed a bit more visibility across our enterprise. That is what Absolute has given us, another notch in our armory that we use to keep track of our assets and ensure compliance.
Our workers power up their devices, log on once, and the connection is automatically established in the background where it then operates behind the scenes. They don’t need to do anything with Absolute Secure Access.
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Frequently asked questions about energy and utilities cybersecurity
Absolute maintains a persistent, firmware-level connection to every device, so utilities can enforce security controls, monitor device posture, and generate continuous, audit-ready evidence mapped to NERC CIP, SOX, and NIS2, on or off network. It supports your compliance posture across a widely distributed estate, turning manual reporting into an automated, always-current exercise.
Absolute secures IT endpoints and access with firmware-embedded persistence that survives tampering, reimaging, and coverage gaps, complementing, not replacing, your OT and ICS controls. Where OT/ICS tools defend industrial systems and networks, Absolute delivers device-level resilience for the rugged laptops and remote-site endpoints your crews rely on. The two layers work together.
Yes. Absolute delivers resilient, self-healing connectivity that survives cellular handoffs, low bandwidth, and coverage gaps. Sessions stay alive as devices switch networks, and policy-aware optimization prioritizes mission-critical applications, so crews in rural and remote sites stay productive instead of hunting for signal or repeatedly re-authenticating.
Absolute lets you locate, freeze, or wipe lost, stolen, or at-risk devices anywhere, with firmware-level control that survives loss, theft, and reimaging. Geolocation and geofencing flag suspicious device movement, and sensitive operational data can be secured or removed remotely, no shipping, no waiting on the user, reducing breach and compliance risk.
Absolute focuses on resilience and recovery, not just prevention. During an incident, your team can remotely quarantine compromised devices and restore them to a trusted, operational state in minutes, without shipping hardware. Field crews get back to work fast while the incident is contained.
Yes. Absolute operates at the firmware level, agnostic to a device's age, OS, or type, delivering one consistent layer of visibility and control across a widely dispersed, mixed-OS estate. From the newest field laptop to older equipment still in service, you get the same resilient security, built for the messy reality of utility fleets.