The Gartner consultancy has recommended the installation of personal firewalls, at least, across all corporate laptops and ideally all desktops as well. Gartner's recommendation, reported by TechWeb, responds to the growing number of vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems. This means that companies constantly have to apply the patches released to workstations and laptops in particular.

Gartner has also brought attention to the delay in applying these patches. On average, companies take from between......