Brennan Manna Diamond (BMD) is a full-service law firm in the United States. With offices in Ohio, Florida and Arizona, BMD focuses on providing pro-business solutions for individuals and businesses of all sizes across a wide variety of industry sectors.
The Story
Improving Business Continuity in a ‘Work-from-Anywhere’ Workforce
For law firms like BMD, business continuity in the age of remote working is an enormous challenge. This full-service, multi-location law firm, catering to entrepreneurs and businesses across a wide variety of industries, needed a secure and easy-to-use means for attorneys and staff to access critical office resources without any complicated login requirements or disruptions. A key requirement was a solution that allowed attorneys to maintain flawless connectivity with clients, no matter where they work.
The Solutions
How They Did It
Seamless and Robust Remote Access, Anywhere
Using Absolute Secure Access, BMD has given fee earners and staff a powerful and seamless user experience over any wired, Wi-Fi, or cellular network connection. This capability gives remote workers incredibly reliable access to the files and resources they need while working from home or at client locations. In turn, this ensures that business can be done from anywhere without any negative impact on client relationships or productivity.
Simplifed Installation and Management for IT Teams
In addition, Absolute Secure Access is simple for IT to install and manage, making it easy to push software updates to laptops and connect remote users to their domain without additional gateway infrastructure.
The Results
Fewer Network Distruptions = Increased Producivity and User Experience
Absolute Secure Access provides secure, reliable remote access to BMD's corporate resources, keeping the business running smoothly and letting attorneys focus on meeting clients' objectives and billable hours.
For the BMD team, Absolute Secure Access:
- Replaced legacy VPN without disrupting business operations
- Enables an ‘office-like’ experience for users while working remotely
- Provides seamless roaming between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
- Simplifies distribution of security updates to the remote workforce
- Reduces helpdesk calls
Absolute Platform FAQ
The Absolute® Platform leverages a cloud-based, highly-available and secure multi-tenant architecture that is available across different regions. It’s comprised of a variety of foundational components that power Absolute product features that are being leveraged by the company’s enterprise customers and ecosystems partners (e.g., independent software vendors, original equipment manufacturers, or managed service providers) alike.
The Absolute Platform consists of three core components:
- Absolute Persistence Technology
Absolute Persistence® technology, a unique, patented technology is already embedded in over 600 million devices as a result of Absolute’s partnership with nearly 30 system manufacturers from around the world. Once activated, this technology is fiercely resilient and is the only solution to survive attempts to disable it, even if the device is re-imaged, the hard drive is replaced, or the firmware is updated.
No other technology can do this. Ultimately, it provides a secure, unbreakable, and always-on connection between the Absolute Platform and the endpoint, allowing you to gain unprecedented real-time visibility, control, and remediation capabilities.
- Absolute Resilience Technology
The Absolute Platform utilizes two types of patented Absolute Resilience™ technology to ensure that mission-critical applications remain healthy and operational and to provide end users with the most productive, as well as optimized remote access experience possible:
- Application Resilience™: Monitors mission-critical applications’ health and behavior; detects if missing, corrupted, or not running; and automatically repairs or re-installs components when necessary – without requiring human intervention. Application Resilience ensures security controls are working as expected and provides optimal user experience by fixing unhealthy applications. Currently more than 60 mission-critical applications are enabled for Application Resilience and more are being added frequently.
- Network Resilience™: Monitors and automatically, as well as transparently restores and optimizes unhealthy network connections so networked applications continue to operate without end user-impacting interruptions that would otherwise require manual application restarts, network re-connects, and/or re-authentications. Network Resilience allows for superior connectivity and reliability, allowing end users to focus on their tasks and not network behavior.
- Absolute Intelligence
Absolute ensures a digital tether to each device remains intact, providing you with reliable insights and intelligence from all of your endpoints to the network edge — on or off your corporate network.
Hundreds of data points are gathered and served up as insights, providing guidance on utilization, health, security and compliance posture, as well as a unified view into the entire end user experience. Applying AI-based risk assessment and user entity behavior analytics lets you go beyond the monitoring of resources and applications, allowing for automated remediation and uncompromised user productivity.
Other foundational components of the Absolute Platform that enable the Absolute Secure Endpoint™ and Secure Access™ products are as follows:
- Web console
- Mobile app
- Rules and policy engine
- Alerts
- Dashboards
- APIs
- Application Persistence-as-a-Service SDK
- Third-party integrations (e.g., SIEM, ITSM)
Customers can leverage the Absolute Platform components through Absolute’s packaged products, APIs, and SDKs. The result will be rapid innovation. The Absolute Platform is always included in the product package of choice.
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