How many of your employees work remotely or telecommute? Company laptops, provided by your company for work-related business, are not monitored, and consequently employees start using them for NON-work-related things:

• Playing computer games
• Downloading music from online music stores
• Using file-sharing software to download "illegal" files
• Checking personal e-mail and clicking on attachments
• Installing / using instant messaging & other related programs

On the surface, the primary reaction involves lost employee productivity. How can your employees be productive with work when they’re using the laptops for other, non-work-related items? But from a security standpoint, the problem is actually two-fold.

Many of your employees are not necessarily "computer geniuses", and it is unfortunately very easy to mistake bad software as good software.

Giving free reign to an employee with a remote laptop is giving free reign to anyone, any trojans, or any viruses on that laptop. Now, what happens if the laptop is carrying confidential data assets for a project or private customer identification information?

Playing a game could potentially cost your company millions of dollars.

That’s where AlertBoot mobile data security enters the picture. With AlertBoot Application Control, organizations can directly control which software applications are used on a client’s machine.

Fully-integrated within the core AlertBoot product, Application Control is easily managed and deployed via AlertBoot Central — the central management console. The end result is a custom list of "trusted" applications that can be executed on a user's machine, thus preventing unauthorized execution of and access by trojans and viruses.

Additionally, as an added bonus, preventing access to non-work-related software on client machines ensures that companies are fully protected from the misuse of company hardware and resources and the decreased productivity of distracted employees.

Playing games can be fun, but playing games with your company’s confidential data assets is simply dangerous.

Don’t take chances. Protect your organization's corporate and customer data with AlertBoot.