Absolute Strengthens Asplundh’s Security Posture by Self-Healing Critical Endpoint Applications
公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- America
- Pacific
国家
- United States
- Canada
- Australia
- New Zealand
产品
- Absolute
- Application Persistence by Absolute
技术栈
- Endpoint Protection
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- Patch Management
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Customer Satisfaction
- Employee Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
- Brand Awareness
技术
- 网络安全和隐私 - 端点安全
- 网络安全和隐私 - 安全合规
- 功能应用 - 远程监控系统
适用行业
- 公用事业
- 运输
适用功能
- 现场服务
- 维护
用例
- 远程资产管理
服务
- 系统集成
- 网络安全服务
关于客户
Founded in 1928, Asplundh is a family-owned and operated corporation headquartered near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dedicated to safe, efficient and innovative line clearance services for the utility industry. Diversification over the years has opened up vegetation management services to other specialized markets such as municipalities, railroads, pipelines, and departments of transportation. Asplundh has grown to employ over 30,000 service professionals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
挑战
With most endpoints off the corporate network on a regular basis, it was difficult for Asplundh to manage and secure their deployment efficiently and ensure endpoint protection at all times. Despite their best intentions, users would unintentionally compromise endpoint security and compliance by either disabling DLP, anti-virus or other security applications or installing incompatible software that would remove corporate protection processes and policies. The impact of just one vulnerable device could severely impact their business. If a criminal targeted an Asplundh vehicle, the device and data was at risk, potentially damaging Asplundh’s brand and resulting in penalties for non-compliance.
解决方案
By activating Absolute on their endpoints and incorporating into their standard device image, Asplundh gained uncompromised visibility of its entire device fleet. Beyond this, they can now make critical security applications self-healing on all endpoints, on and off their network, providing a persistent protection layer that could prevent compromise. As a result, if a negligent user or an external attacker ever tries to disable or remove an application that should be running on the device at all times, such as endpoint protection or DLP, Application Persistence by Absolute will automatically reinstall it to maintain endpoint compliance and data protection. This takes away the human factor and prevents major issues. If a device is stolen on the road, Asplundh’s IT team can now track its location with Absolute and recover it or remotely delete the data for compliance reasons. They can also write scripts or be alerted if something out of the norm is happening. Finally, Absolute makes both hardware and software inventory management much easier for Asplundh, increasing its efficiency and accuracy.
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