Absolute News

Absolute Software has signed up with Westcoast in the UK to expand our distribution to more resellers. As shared on MicroScope, teaming up with Westcoast will allow us to help widen our channel reach, particularly in key markets. Westcoast has particular expertise in health and education verticals, areas where we have a proven history of strong performance with our clients. We are hoping to find new and innovative ways to help...

Absolute Software today announced that the Southern Kern Unified School District has selected Absolute Software for their 1:1 laptop program. Using the Absolute Safe Schools program, the district will be able to provide a secure learning environment and safer campus for students and employees, all while safeguarding their investment in 1,300 laptops. Absolute Safe Schools is an integrated program that works in conjunction with Absolute Computrace. Overseen by the Absolute Investigations team,...

Absolute Software today announced that our persistence technology is now available in more Samsung Galaxy mobile devices, including the Galaxy S5, NotePRO and TabPRO. Following user installation and activation, Absolute Computrace and Absolute LoJack software agents can be installed to persistently track stolen devices;if efforts are made to remove it, the technology simply rebuilds itself. No other technology can do this. In addition to KNOX, Samsung’s end-to-end secure mobile platform...

Kristinehamns Kommun is the local authority for the town of Kristinehamn in Sweden. The authority provides a range of services to its 24,000 residents, including the education of its 4,000 students through 13 senior schools and 18 junior schools. In 2010, the authority launched an IT programme to provide each senior student and teacher with a laptop, for use in school and outside school time. In this 1:1 program, Kristinehamns Kommun faced...

This week a major vulnerability in web security was announced. The Heartbleed bug places many web passwords and other information at risk. Here’s what you need to know. What is Heartbleed? The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. The vulnerability means that cybercriminals have a way to steal information that would otherwise be protected by the SSL-TLS encryption that is used to...