Outside the safe zone

Businesses around the world are being bombarded with sophisticated threats against their data and communications networks every day.
As enterprises invest heavily in fortifying their IT infrastructures and enforcing comprehensive and constantly upgraded security policies against malicious code attacks, another home-grown threat – the mobile workforce – is opening the floodgates to compromised enterprise data and corporate network contamination.

Though mobile working offers gains in commercial and operational value, enterprise security policies often stifle the effectiveness and productivity of mobile workforce devices.

Here we examine why best of breed softwares, in isolation, are not able to provide the mobile workforce and their laptops with the same high level security afforded to office based workers.

Two lines of defence in a protected corporate environment
Currently organisations anticipate, detect, and prevent threats from laptops attacks via a layered approach.
This is coupled with centralized, uncompromising IT policy which overrides an individuals control over his/her own laptop.
As IT departments prioritise...