Absolute Security, a leader in Autonomous Cyber Resilience, has announced its strategic acquisition of Phoenix Technologies’ FirmGuard, a dedicated UEFI BIOS firmware security, management, and networking service. By integrating FirmGuard into its patented firmware-embedded technology, Absolute Persistence®, the company aims to establish an AI-native firmware foundation that equips enterprise IT and security leaders with advanced visibility, continuous patching, posture management, and compliance enforcement across endpoint fleets, AI workstations, and autonomous agents. The move directly targets rising sub-OS vulnerabilities, as Christy Wyatt, President & CEO, Absolute Security, noted: “AI-driven threats and fragility are disrupting enterprises from the cloud to the endpoint.
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Full resilience requires visibility, control, security, and recovery capabilities in the device hardware a unique and exclusive location only Absolute occupies.” She further added, “For more than 30 years, we have led the market in helping customers withstand cyberattacks and IT failures and recover from operational breakdowns. Our strengthened platform will help security and risk leaders confidently accelerate and protect AI initiatives against threats, complexity, and downtime.” Echoing the strategic value of the deal, Gerard Moore, President & CEO, FirmGuard, stated: “We built FirmGuard to make firmware protection simple and secure. Absolute has proven its firmware-embedded platform can do this at enterprise scale.” He elaborated that, “With FirmGuard integrated into Absolute, customers can remain confident their AI devices will stay secure, compliant, and running, so when something goes wrong, downtime will not become a business loss.” Overall, this consolidation provides organizations with unified below-the-OS resilience and centralized control from power-on.
