Laptops are an almost impossible temptation for thieves at work, in the cafeteria or on campus. They are pursuing small, portable, generally have a high value, and almost impossible.
Current estimates say that a laptop is stolen about once every minute in this country, or half a million of them per year, and 97% of them never recovered. Even more frustrating than the loss of hardware will lose all data on them - especially when a company> Laptop, where the files can be more valuable than the hardware!
Even if it is not a corporate culture that laptop, you can have your passwords for Web sites, financial sites such as PayPal or eBay embedded in, or your bank. This can be a laptop thief could make complete hash of your accounts in just a few minutes with virtually no way to trace them.
Holding on to your laptop is very important, and there are some simple, common sense guidelines will help you.
- Do not. Advertising Carry your laptop in something other leads as well. Obvious laptop bags are tempting targets on campus and in the airports.
- Keep your eyes on them. Let it not out of sight. If that means you wait to go to the toilet until after you put it in the car, you know, dass
- Is one of deterrence. Use a visual lock and key cable to a laptop at the table or chair you - you do not need to make fool-proof to this, butYou need to do to make it look so hard to steal.
- If you are a computer in a public place, use lists, passwords, encryption, and read carefully the availability of the network. A particularly ruthless trick is to print out the WiFi network from a public place, usually by the letter "l" to the number "1" in the name, and I hope that somebody think to connect to them, they are the connection to the real network, and with a keystroke logger.
- Do not be afraid to encrypt sensitive data.You can even set up these things so that someone who takes your laptop, thumb drive, have to read the data on the disk.
- For all security options Look - marking your laptop with ultraviolet markings, including your name and phone number means that, if it is recovered, they can be returned. You can also use a software called LoJack for Laptops, the Video secretly stolen, after you have notified the company, and is hooked up on the Internet.
- If youThis laptop corporate management, who take political action - laptops are stolen. Take a look at remote data destruction, combined with a unique ID to remove sensitive data from laptops, are stolen. Just back up everything on a laptop - there is nothing ever on a laptop, it is crucial that companies do not have a backup on the server.
So be careful. Protect your laptop and keep your information secure.
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