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Computer Weekly buyer's guide to endpoint security

With the abrupt rise in bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programmes, the tide of consumerisation has led to benefits in employees’ productivity and efficiency.

However it has also led to many more devices connecting to the corporate network and the decentralisation of enterprise control over these network endpoints.

In this 11-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly looks at how to meet the challenge of ensuring that each of these devices complies with your enterprise’s security policy; how to safeguard the organisation’s data stored on these devices; and how to combine antimalware software, security policies, BYOD strategies and user education to bring defence-in-depth to endpoint security.

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