Employees love the freedom of being unshackled from their desks.
Employers love reducing travel-related disruption.
Vendors and their partners love the expansion of new specialized markets. Crooks love the opportunity to get at your hardware. Even as companies begin to recognize the need to defend their networks, they often miss the new threats posed by an increasingly mobile workforce. The most obvious of those threats is laptop theft. Rapid improvements in low-power processors have transformed the laptop from a relatively exotic interim solution into a common replacement for a desktop box.