Securing Your Mobile Workforce End-To-End

Authored by: Andrew Tabona

Organizations are facing an ever increasing mobile workforce, with workplace flexibility encouraging people to work from home or on the go. With users taking their work laptops out of the office environment more often, the risk of the device getting lost, stolen or damaged is greater, which means data loss prevention becomes even more important.

What can you do as an IT admin to keep these devices – and your company's data – secure when they have left your internal network? In this article we look at some key items that will help achieve end-to-end protection.

Endpoint encryption

Develop and implement a strong device data encryption policy. This includes full disk encryption to prevent the loss of sensitive data in the event that the device is lost or stolen, as well as file and removable media protection which enforces the encryption of removable media.