Employees can do research, find product information and any other type of information they might need on a wide array of topics. On the other hand, employees can also look like they're working, while they're downloading inappropriate content, following auctions, checking on the latest movies, shopping for a new DVD player, posting resumes, surfing for hours, or catching streaming videos of sports highlights from Sunday's games. An employee could decide to go online during their morning break, but then their little online binge stretches from 15 minutes to 30 or 45. With all your employees on the Internet at once, and with many doing things they shouldn't be doing, it not only wastes time and slows productivity, it clogs the system bandwidth, even with high-speed Internet access like DSL or T1. It's no wonder bandwidth consumption within organizations is doubling every couple months.
Laptop computers present their own unique set of security concerns.
Because they are typically used by multiple users, and are often taken out of the company and transported via airports and left in hotel rooms, they are particularly susceptible to loss or theft. This then means that your confidential or proprietary data could be removed from your company, lost or stolen. Often, laptops will contain sensitive data such as financial or client data. Panda Security allows you to fully encrypt the entire hard disk of a laptop computer, so that the computer cannot even be booted up by anyone who does not have the password. The encryption makes it impossible for someone to use that hard disk even if it is removed from the laptop and installed in another computer.