You work for the CIO of your company as a strategic analyst. The CIO has just read the following article on ZDNet:
https://review.zdnet.com/4520-7297-5123825.html
He thinks that the author asks a good question at the end of the article but is a little puzzled about the role that the author envisions for corporate customers. He wants you to write a brief report for him outlining whether you think that it would be useful for a company like yours to subsidize free distribution of anti-virus software to home users as the author proposes. In particular, he wants you to explain why there is a connection between the company's network and home users and how this might help your company's problems with viruses. He also wants you to consider whether there are other issues besides providing free software to home users that affect the network security of your firm and to be sure to put your discussion in the context of the roles of top management/non-IT management, IT professionals, and end-users play in maintaining network security.
You have recently read the following article that has set you to thinking about different perceptions of network security problems between IT professionals, end-users, and managers:
https://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/security/news/article.php/3370591