Business managers tend to travel a lot and need mobile access to strategic information. Consequently, their mobile devices are potential leaks of commercially valuable information. Said devices are also at risk of being lost or damaged in a whirl of transport, hotels and events. This leaves the exec and the company with two problems.

Firstly, how to get the traveller, far away from the office, ready for meetings and presentations planned in advance. The other problem is just as niggly – making the lost device a useless brick, rather than a treasure trove, to whoever finds it. Companies are finding new ways to address these problems, some of which enable IT departments to reclaim control of company information.