# Is it risky to let new employees use personal laptops on the company network?

Yes, mainly because nobody knows what is on them. A personal laptop may have no endpoint protection, out-of-date software, pirated programs or malware picked up at home, and on a flat office network it sits next to payroll and customer data. It is also outside your control when the person leaves. Safer options: hand out the company laptop on the first day; if that is not possible, give temporary access through a separate guest network and a browser to cloud services, not to internal file shares; and write the rule into onboarding. If personal devices do connect, watch what they do: NetSenX shows new devices on the network map on every plan, and alerts when a device scans the network or keeps contacting an unknown outside server.

General information, not legal advice. National laws can add to the EU texts quoted here, for example deadlines, forms or reporting channels: check your own country's rules.

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## Read next

- https://netsenx.com/en/is-someone-inside-your-network
- https://netsenx.com/en/dpa
- https://netsenx.com/en/eu-data-residency

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