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If IT had its way, they’d make laptops so secure they’d be virtually unusable. Protecting against every imaginable attack–not to mention the fallibility of the human connected to the laptop–is a battle we keep losing. Seventy percent of successful breaches happen at the endpoint. So it’s either keep layering the security stack or abolish laptops altogether—because they’re counterintuitive to a secure enterprise.
On the flip side, the workforce views endpoint devices as a marvelous, immutable extension of self: the computers they carry are magical devices that transform mere mortals into digital superhumans—giving them speed, power, boundless knowledge and connection. Take away that muscular machine, and employees will rebel.
Read the complete article at: Are endpoints the axis of evil or the catalyst of creation?