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Sophos Enterprise and Tablets

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Can bypassing POA or PBA allow tablets to load Windows 7 and activate the soft keyboard for login. Would one still be protected? My guess just by testing and reading a little is yes. I would like to hear from others on this option as tablets are becoming much more common in our work environment.

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    Yes and No, POA on is the most secured however integration with tablets and other touch screen devices is always iffy because nobody wants to open source any specs, create open API's for using the hardware for these things, and a lot of manufacturers do bad stuff like use binary loaded in a driver for firmware to get to market faster and fix problems after release. So you'll get some protection for tablets which don't carry much data it should be enough. In our case tablets are glorified handheld thin clients using either citrix, appv, or thinapp and all the data paths are network based to save stuff. No data of any consequence actually gets stored on the device typically under most circumstances.
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    Yes and No, POA on is the most secured however integration with tablets and other touch screen devices is always iffy because nobody wants to open source any specs, create open API's for using the hardware for these things, and a lot of manufacturers do bad stuff like use binary loaded in a driver for firmware to get to market faster and fix problems after release. So you'll get some protection for tablets which don't carry much data it should be enough. In our case tablets are glorified handheld thin clients using either citrix, appv, or thinapp and all the data paths are network based to save stuff. No data of any consequence actually gets stored on the device typically under most circumstances.
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