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As organizations accelerate AI adoption and digital workplace transformation, many are finding that cyber resilience is undermined not by a lack of security tools, but by growing operational complexity and threat sophistication. According to recent research, 90% of IT leaders acknowledge gaps in their ability to defend against AI-driven threats. While security investments continue to grow, many organizations face a different challenge: fragmented accountability. Security operations remain highly distributed and siloed, making it increasingly difficult to coordinate response efforts, maintain end-to-end business continuity, and recover quickly when incidents occur. Cyber resiliency framework To help organizations address this challenge, Lenovo is expanding its global Security Services portfolio with a revamped cyber resiliency framework and end-to-end security offerings designed to provide a single point of accountability, help organizations reduce security complexity, cut system downtime by up to 50%, and lower remediation costs by up to 40%. "Security leaders don't need more tools. They need greater confidence that their people, devices, and data remain protected, and clear accountability when issues arise," said Rakshit Ghura, Vice President and General Manager, Digital Workplace Solutions, Lenovo. "When cyber incidents occur, organizations are often left coordinating across multiple vendors, platforms, and support teams. By bringing trusted devices, leading security technologies, expert managed services, and market-leading alliances together under a single operational model, Lenovo helps customers reduce complexity while strengthening resilience, so they can focus on their business and serving customers.” Reduce operational disruption Lenovo's approach has been recognized by industry analysts and independent organizations, including recent recognition in the 2026 Fortress Cybersecurity Awards across cyber resilience, application security, and AI security categories. According to ISG Research, Lenovo Security Services combines hardware trust, multi-layered protection, and AI-enabled operations within a unified framework that helps organizations improve resilience, maintain business continuity, and reduce operational disruption. Essential security controls As part of the portfolio expansion, Lenovo is launching Security Services with Absolute, a fully managed end-to-end resilience offering designed to help organizations maintain critical security controls across distributed workforces without increasing demands on internal IT teams. The service enables essential security controls to automatically recover when disrupted, reducing manual intervention and helping organizations maintain consistent protection across complete environments. The offering is supported by Lenovo's global 24x7x365 Security Operations Center (SOC), where security specialists continuously monitor end-to-end activity and help organizations identify and respond to emerging threats. By combining firmware-level resilience, managed operations, and expert security oversight, Lenovo helps organizations strengthen end-to-end resiliency while reducing operational burden on internal teams. Active operating system Lenovo is also introducing Lenovo ThinkShield TraceLock, powered by Absolute Security, to help organizations maintain visibility and control of lost, stolen, or disconnected devices that may fall outside the reach of traditional endpoint management and security tools. Conventional endpoint security depends on an active operating system or network connection. When devices are powered off or disconnected, they can become operational blind spots. ThinkShield TraceLock uses built-in cellular connectivity to let IT teams remotely locate, wake, and wipe devices, helping organizations protect sensitive data and reduce risk when hardware is lost or compromised. Highly regulated industries The solution helps organizations strengthen compliance efforts, maintain control of sensitive corporate data, and support security policies even when endpoints are offline. ThinkShield TraceLock is particularly valuable for organizations operating in highly regulated industries, including healthcare, financial services, government, and the public sector, where maintaining control over sensitive data and meeting compliance requirements are business-critical priorities. ThinkShield TraceLock will be available beginning July 1 on select ThinkPad devices. Existing security investments As cyber threats evolve, resilience is increasingly defined not by the number of security tools an organization deploys, but by how effectively an organization’s security posture is when different capabilities work together to prevent disruption, maintain continuity, and, if needed, accelerate recovery. Lenovo’s end-to-end cyber resiliency framework helps organizations maximize the value of existing security investments through Identity and Access management, Data Protection, Extended Detection and Response, Visibility and Risk Management, and Security for AI. Lenovo’s cyber resiliency framework integrates with leading technology providers including Absolute, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, SentinelOne, and Veeam. Single accountable relationship Rather than requiring customers to coordinate across multiple providers for threat management and security incidents, Lenovo’s AI-enabled SOC delivers a coordinated operational model that combines end-to-end resilience, ongoing protection, and recovery through a single accountable relationship. The result is a more integrated approach to cyber resilience that helps organizations reduce complexity, improve operational efficiency, and pursue digital transformation initiatives with greater confidence.

Absolute Security, an enterprise cyber resilience pioneer, today unveiled Lenovo ThinkShield TraceLock. Powered by the Absolute Security Cyber Resilience Platform, customers can leverage this innovation to locate, wake, connect, control, and restore supported devices through a firmware-embedded, persistent connection, even when they are powered off or disconnected from WiFi or local area networks. With the ability to locate and control offline, lost, missing, or stolen PCs, security and IT teams can help ensure their networks, systems, and data remain protected and resilient against threats, theft, compromises, negligence, and downtime caused by software failures and cyber disruptions. Restore supported devices “Businesses use hundreds of millions of PCs to keep their operations running and employees fully productive, yet new research shows that organizations can’t locate or control 25 percent of their deployed devices,” said John Herrema, Chief Product Officer, Absolute Security. “Working with Lenovo, we’re helping our customers to maintain connectivity, visibility, and continuous control over their devices, even when they’re powered off or disconnected.” ThinkShield TraceLock is enabled by the Absolute Connections Framework™, a firmware-based architecture designed to maintain persistent communication with endpoint devices. Through remote connectivity capabilities and a single cloud-based console, organizations can: Maintain visibility and control of supported devices from below the OS, even when they have been powered off or disconnected from corporate networks and the Internet. Reduce the risk of data breaches, ransomware, and compromises, with the ability to reinstate and enforce security, compliance, and access policies across supported endpoints. Help prevent unauthorized access to networks and sensitive data with the ability to remotely lock devices and wipe hard drives. Meet internal compliance policies and industry regulation requirements with documentation through audit-ready templates available to major industries. Reduce downtime by automating the restoration of failed PCs back to a last known good state, including reimaging of crashed, compromised, or corrupted operating systems. Extra layer of protection “AI has changed cybersecurity and today’s enterprises demand a new level of control and peace of mind that doesn’t stop at the operating system or on the network edge,” said Nima Baiati, Vice President and General Manager, Commercial Software & Security Solutions, Lenovo. “Developed in partnership with Absolute Security, Lenovo’s ThinkShield TraceLock gives organizations an extra layer of protection and visibility. IT teams can now remotely locate, wake and wipe devices even if they are powered off or not on the corporate network.” Starting July 1, 2026, ThinkShield TraceLock is available on select ThinkPads equipped with WWAN including: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14, ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 11, ThinkPad T14s Gen 7 Intel and ThinkPad T16 Gen 5 Intel. When ordering new ThinkPads, ThinkShield TraceLock can be added through Absolute Control and Absolute Resilience licenses. To learn more about Lenovo ThinkShield TraceLock and other Absolute Security Cyber Resilience solutions, visit booth 339 during Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit (SRMS) 2026 in National Harbor, MD, June 1 – 3.

Commvault, a pioneering provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, has now announced two powerful additions to its HyperScale portfolio: HyperScale Edge and HyperScale Flex. As modern enterprises generate more data from remote offices and edge locations, these environments have become lucrative and vulnerable targets for cyberattacks. Exploitation of edge devices To help clients address this challenge and improve their resilience, Commvault has developed HyperScale Edge The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report reveals a startling trend: breaches from the exploitation of edge devices and VPNs surged to 22%, an eightfold increase from the previous year.   To help customers address this challenge and improve their resilience, Commvault has developed HyperScale Edge and HyperScale Flex. Commvault’s HyperScale X solution Complementing Commvault’s HyperScale X solution, which serves as its flagship scale-out integrated appliance, these new on-premises offerings provide customers with exceptional flexibility, performance, and resilience for protecting workloads running in various environments.  Like HyperScale X, both HyperScale Edge and Flex models are delivered as a software image that can easily be installed on validated hardware. Modern retailers “No two enterprises are the same. Modern retailers often manage mission-critical data across dozens of sites, while large organizations may want to leverage existing storage investments. But regardless of infrastructure, every enterprise is striving for one thing: cyber resilience,” said Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Commvault. Pranay Ahlawat adds, “With the launch of HyperScale Edge and HyperScale Flex, we’re delivering the best of both worlds — flexibility and choice, combined with industry-pioneering cyber resilience.”  Data protection and recovery HyperScale Edge enables localised data protection and recovery for remote sites, edge locations, and small and medium-sized businesses where space and IT resources are limited.  This could include retail stores, branch offices, and distribution centers. Customers can utilize this offering in combination with validated hardware from Dell, HPE, and Lenovo.   Requirements of modern applications and AI/ML workloads For large, data-intensive, and AI workloads, such as those generated by technology, telecom, and healthcare industries, HyperScale Flex delivers high-performance backup and recovery with a flexible architecture that connects to external flash storage pools.  Supporting certified storage offerings from Pure Storage, VAST Data, and in the near future, HPE, it enables organizations to meet the extreme performance demands and multi-petabyte capacity requirements of modern applications and AI/ML workloads.   Supporting quotes  “Commvault's HyperScale Edge was crucial in creating a cost-effective data management and cyber resilience solution across our many data centers,” said Lee Lindstrom, Principal Infrastructure Architect, Fortune Brands, adding “With Commvault’s HyperScale Edge, we were able to implement a cost-effective, repeatable, and easily deployable solution. The built-in resiliency and advanced ransomware protection have given us the peace of mind that our critical data is always protected and recoverable.”  “As cyber threats increase in sophistication and the pace of business operations accelerate, current data protection approaches and architectures are not adequate,” said Jim O'Dorisio, Senior Vice President and GM for Storage, HPE, adding “In the coming quarters, Commvault HyperScale Flex with HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 and our full-stack infrastructure will deliver a truly differentiated, holistic approach to cyber resilience and data protection that meets the extraordinary speed, scale and simplicity required by modern enterprises.”  “An all-flash architecture with the Pure Storage platform combined with Commvault HyperScale software will provide a massively scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective platform for protecting petabyte-scale data, giving organizations the confidence to manage and secure their largest and most critical data assets from a single centralized plane,” said Maciej Kranz, General Manager, Enterprise, Pure Storage.  George Axberg, Vice President, Data Protection, VAST Data said, “The performance demands of modern AI and data-intensive workloads require a new approach to data architecture. By combining the high-throughput and low-latency infrastructure of the VAST AI Operating System with Commvault's HyperScale Flex, we are delivering a solution that can keep pace with these critical applications. Customers will be able to protect massive datasets at unprecedented speed, minimizing application impact and accelerating recovery when it matters most.”  Availability and pricing  Commvault HyperScale Edge is generally available now. The software is available via a subscription model with pricing per node/per month or as a perpetual license plus support costs. Customers are responsible for purchasing an approved server based on the HyperScale Reference Architecture.  Commvault HyperScale Flex is available now for early adopter customers, who can contact Commvault Sales to request access to the EA program. Pricing is configured based on the specific server and storage options selected for the solution.