Comment Re:I as an IT person have directly dealt with this (Score 1) 417
Spend money for software for remote work with laptops? You need very little money for this purpose:
1. A VPN, with a public/private keypair per user. Please use an open standard, or it'll be horrible for anything but windows. And then there's no software to buy, you can use free software.
2. full disk encryption that locks automatically after some inactivity, or at least the parts that contain user data. You can get this for free as well.
If anyone steals the laptop, the user data will be useless without the encryption key and you can just no longer accept his key for the VPN. Done!