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Learn how to make mobile computing as simple and secure as LAN-based work through security best practices and an integrated Mobility Management Platform.

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Businesses today have reached a tipping point where a majority of the workers are mobile, or soon will be. It's time now for a set of best practices and solutions specifically aimed at managing the mobile computing environment.

Our lives are becoming more flexible and mobile, so are our work lives. Mobility isn't limited to classic road warriors. Mobile work practices now encompass telecommuters who work from home; office workers who carry notebook PCs into conference rooms for meetings; employees in remote field offices; and day extenders who put in a few extra hours of work at home. According to The Yankee Group, nearly 50% of today's enterprise workers are considered to be "mobile." By the year 2011, IDC predicts that 75% of the U.S. workforce will be mobile.

People now use the Internet and the World Wide Web as their office resources. Workers use their portable PCs to connect to "the office" to catch up on email and perform other important tasks. Web based applications are mission-critical for many businesses. Without a doubt, the Internet has become a necessary extension of the corporate network.

But while business mobility initiatives enhance productivity and flexibility, they have a few drawbacks as well. Workers often have difficulty connecting to the corporate network or the Internet securely and conveniently. Once they do connect, data downloaded to the notebook hard drive is vulnerable to theft or loss. As soon as
the umbilical cord of the LAN cable is disconnected, the mobile PC is subject to haphazard enforcement of policies and procedures. This is the "mobile blind spot."

The challenges posed by mobility lead to operational inefficiencies, higher support costs, and increased vulnerabilities to attacks targeting company computing assets and data.

So how can all of the mobile (and remote) devices that access the corporate network and resources such as Web-based applications be given the same level of attention as the wired world when it comes to connectivity, security, productivity and compliance?

This paper discusses the inherent risks of the mobile blind spot, the best practices for a mobile environment, and how Fiberlink Communications helps organizations control and manage the mobile fleet 24/7 with the Extend360 Mobility Platform™.

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