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Dealing With Laptops in a Business Network?

Posted by Cliff on from the portable-intrusion-vectors dept.

lanimreT asks: "Notebooks are a large problem for IT managers. They carry viruses and other malware back into the network and are less reliable than desktop PCs for more than one reason. Yet, every employee MUST have one for his job. How have other IT managers dealt with the various problems that notebooks create?"

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  1. Re:Here's a start for you. by Dan+Ost · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The laptops at work come locked down and you can't do anything until a tech
    visits. Rather than wait for days until a tech comes, some people wipe the
    drive and reinstall windows, thus negating any benefit of locking the machine
    down in the first place.

    The moral of the story is if you have access to the hardware, then the machine
    isn't really locked down.

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    *sigh* back to work...