Absolute Secure Access vs StreetWise CADlink 3.0
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Absolute Secure Access
This app provides secure and resilient network connectivity for accessing critical resources. It offers a Zero Trust approach to network access, enhancing security and user productivity. The platform includes advanced threat detection and network monitoring capabilities.
- Resilient network connectivity
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
- Data encryption and access controls
- Proactive network monitoring
- AI/ML-powered threat detection
- User and entity behavior analysis (UEBA)
- Configurable alerts
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The Absolute Secure Access product portfolio provides resilient network connectivity for users to securely access critical resources in the public cloud, private data centers, and on-premises. These products allow users to transition from traditional VPN to a resilient Zero Trust approach, without impairing productivity or administrative controls. Absolute VPN provides security and confidentiality for data in motion by means of encryption and access controls. It also offers benefits to the end user, such as making tunnel and network sessions resilient and optimizing streaming video and audio. Absolute ZTNA provides a software-defined perimeter via Zero Trust Network Access, creating a context-based, logical access boundary around an application or set of applications – wherever they're hosted. It shields applications from the Internet, making them invisible to unauthorized users. Access policies are enforced at the endpoint, avoiding latency and any data transgression. Absolute Insights for Network offers diagnostic and experience monitoring capabilities across endpoints and network, allowing organizations to proactively monitor, investigate, and remediate end user performance issues quickly and at scale, even on networks that are not company-owned or managed. The Secure Access SaaS platform leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to provide highly resilient, advanced threat detection combined with user and entity behavior analysis (UEBA). Secure Access analyzes each device’s activity to establish a comprehensive baseline of normal network behavior for that device and user. Regardless of whether a device has Secure Access policies that route traffic inside or outside a tunnel, the new AI-powered network security and vulnerability detection capabilities continuously monitor all devices for deviations in behavior, analyzing network traffic, user behavior, application usage and data access patterns, including the following: o Data exfiltration o Unsafe application and web browsing behavior o Malicious network port scanning o New applications generating network traffic o Denial of service attacks o Device being used at unusual times o Higher than expected network activity o New network usage patterns o Device acting as a server o Device refusing server-like requests o Device network usage is abnormal Secure Access generates configurable alerts with rich context and direct links to detailed Insights for Network dashboards, empowering security teams to prioritize and investigate potential threats. As new threats emerge and user behavior evolves, Secure Access automatically modifies its baseline for each user’s device and potential threat profiles, ensuring your defenses remain continuously updated. All clients require a licensed server to work.
StreetWise CADlink 3.0
This enterprise-grade software provides emergency responders with integrated response and pre-plan features on tablets. It offers real-time incident updates, mapping, unit AVL, and detailed pre-incident planning capabilities, enhancing situational awareness and operational efficiency.
- Real-time incident updates with audible alerts
- Interactive mapping with AVL and unit data
- Graphical display of community hazards and preplans
- Turn-by-turn navigation
- Pre-incident planning surveys and photo capture
- Instant photo sharing and device-to-group messaging
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StreetWise CADlink provides serious, enterprise-grade software that is focused on providing MDC-style features for use in responding emergency apparatus. StreetWise is a hybrid of response software and preplan software, uniting these two traditionally distinct functions into a single platform. StreetWise is real software for departments that are serious about getting the most from tablets or replacing clunky outdated laptops. This application includes a video demo of the full product. Full activation requires your department to have a subscription to StreetWise CADlink data services and a link to be setup with your dispatch system. Features: - Incident location and type are sent to assigned tablets with audible alert. Accuracy advisories provided if location is estimated. - Incident updates sent by dispatch center instantly update on tablet display with pop-up advisory. - Incidents are mapped automatically, with familiar “pinch-zoom” interface. - AVL shows the location of other units in real time, see who’s on your call and who’s not. - Tap-to-display data for other units shows apparatus type, pump and tank capacity, EMS level and staffing. - Choices of icons and colors for various apparatus types, rotate in direction of travel. - Web-based AVL display available for use at dispatch console or headquarters. - Community hazards and preplan points are displayed graphically on the tactical map and can be shared with other agencies. - Navigational routing is available, with turn-by-turn directions available. - Hydrant layer shows location and touch-to-display data for water supply. - Choices of icons for various types of hydrants or drafting points. - Switch to satellite photo view or terrain view for enhanced situational awareness. - Google StreetView is integrated for available interactive 360 degree photo. - Tactical waypoints can be dropped on the map and instantly synchronized to all responding tablets for designation of staging areas, incident hazards, fire progression and more. NIMS icons available. - Pre-incident plans are stored in the server and accessed on any responding tablet. Preplans can be shared with other agencies. - Preplans can be selectively cached to device storage for use when no broadband is available. - Exclusive “Preplan Wizard”, complete front-end pre-incident planning surveys for standalone business, master or tenant spaces allow field collection of preplans with the tablet. - Preplan photos can be added right from the tablet during the survey. Additional attachments can be uploaded. - New preplans are automatically synchronized to the server for immediate use by all devices. - Instant photo “share” feature can send incident photos to other responding units or be used for post-disaster damage assessment. Photos are retrievable from administrative web portal. - Device-to-group instant messaging. Message everyone or just the units on your call. - Status buttons send instant timestamps to the server for later retrieval or sharing to CAD and NFIRS. All units’ current status displays to other responders. - Live interface with Emergency Reporting® auto-creates NFIRS incident report, fills in unit times and tactical screen actions. - Web-accessible agency log records every event and activity. - Administrative web portal allows department to set icons, permissions, and entitlements for devices. - Print, list, export, or import preplan data or finished preplans right from the web portal. - CAD-independent, uses common data exports or optional dispatch workstation app. - CAD transfers can use email, SMS, FTP, SFTP, XML, or a custom API. - Basic, simple user interface with large, easy-to-read touch commands and limited menus. - Bi-directional API interfaces available for sharing AVL and status buttons back to CAD systems. Note: StreetWise uses location services, even when running in the background. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: StreetWise CADlink 3.0 at 5.0 against Absolute Secure Access's 4.0. StreetWise CADlink 3.0 also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17). Absolute Secure Access's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and ratings volume (21 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
StreetWise CADlink 3.0 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Absolute Secure Access has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Absolute Secure Access ships an update every 2 months, StreetWise CADlink 3.0 monthly. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Absolute Secure Access | StreetWise CADlink 3.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NetMotion Software Inc. | Hangar 14 Solutions, LLC |
Customer experience
Absolute Secure Access
StreetWise CADlink 3.0
In-app purchases
Absolute Secure Access
No in-app purchases
StreetWise CADlink 3.0
No in-app purchases
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