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Absolute Software is proud to announce the launch of Absolute Safe Schools, the industry’s first Integrated Student and Device Protection Solution for Mobile Student Computing. Combining both theft prevention education as well as protection and recovery services post-theft, Absolute Safe Schools targets one of the most rapidly growing areas and demographics for mobile theft: K-12 schools and kids. Violent mobile device thefts are on the rise in North America and kids are...

Absolute Software’s recently released 2012 Endpoint Security Report details device theft insights from the 12,705 investigations we completed in 2012. At the close of 2012, we had recovered more than 28,000 stolen devices from 96 countries in our history, though since then we’ve reached the milestone of 100 countries and more than 29,000 recovered stolen devices. Our investigations and recoveries have enabled us to develop some insights about where the most...

Absolute Software today released the findings of the 2012 Endpoint Security Report revealing that there has been a significant increase in proactive data protection. Following the 2011 Computer Theft Report, the 2012 Endpoint Security Report has been expanded to include trends in data protection undertaken by Absolute customers in 2012. Findings in the report include stolen device recoveries, top locations, cities and countries for device theft, details on data recovered and deleted, and types...

Absolute Software recently surveyed 200 healthcare professionals to learn weather, and how, they’re incorporating the use of personal mobile devices within their organizations. Our survey reveals that BYOD of smartphones and tablets are increasingly common in healthcare, with efficiency and productivity the primary motivators. When looking at the data from hospital and health systems (which compromised 36% of those surveyed), we found some interesting insights: 61% say that employee...

Absolute Software is pleased to launch our latest tool for IT administrators, Absolute Insight, a comprehensive web-based endpoint monitoring, security management solution for managed service providers (MSPs). With Absolute Insight, MSPs have a 360 degree view of each IT asset in all customer deployments, including relationships and dependencies within the organization based on information from hardware, software, active directory, HR, procurement, and other data sources. Using a cloud-based console,...