Often it so happens that corporate laptop users could be putting their company's networks at risk by downloading non-work-related software capable of spreading viruses and Spyware. This is because the software assets on laptops become more complex as more applications are used on an increasingly sophisticated OS with diverse connectivity options.

According to year 2004 finding, through one survey, it was found that some 86$\%$ of employees with laptops admitted to installing software onto their machines when outside of the office, with many using their laptops to access peer-to-peer websites and downloading illegal music files and movies.

The result from a survey quoted in above figure, further supports this point on cybersecurity threats from corporate laptop users. However, despite the growth in corporate security risks, resulting from mobile working, the tone of most of the security-awareness surveys shows that only half of the companies have tools in place to manage the Internet access on laptops, with one quarter of businesses physically enforcing these policies. An important point to be noted is that the policies and procedures put in place for support of laptop have evolved over the years to be able to cope successfully with managing laptops, connected by wireless means or otherwise. This shows how much role-perception" plays in terms of most people perceiving laptops as greater culprits compared with other innocuous-looking mobile hand-held devices.