Work from home has reshaped the IT attack surface, so cyber thieves and nation states are retooling in hopes of finding and exploiting new vulnerabilities. Which means that CIOs need to shore up their defenses across the IT ecosystem. Including, of course, hackers’ favorite portal into the enterprise: client PCs.
At CES last week, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, the three largest PC vendors, all unveiled a spate of new business laptops with security enhancements like hardened protection and built-in smarts to guard against ransomware, crypto-mining, and other rising threats.
Of course, security isn’t the only compelling new work-from-home feature in this stable of business laptops. Dell spotlighted its new Latitude 9420, for example, which sports its SafeShutter webcam cover that automatically opens and shuts to start and finish videoconferences. HP’s Elite Dragonfly Max features a 5MP camera and four wide-range mics to enrich video call quality. And the Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9, the latest in Lenovo’s iconic lineup, further enhances video call audio with Dolby Voice.