Laptop Security Guide
Every year companies spend millions on securing their networks and servers, while their employees keep confidential data on completely unsecured laptops. These are often subject of robbery, exposing important, strategic company data to outsiders.
Some reports say that over 300,000 laptops valued at $800 millions were stolen in 1999 and this value is growing every year. Majority of laptops are stolen and quickly sold on black-market, because they are valuable as hardware. However, some of them are stolen by industrial spies as they may contain sensitive financial data, product development information and other company's internal secrets that are worth much more than the laptop itself. Even if your files are not so valuable for your business opponents, it could still lead to big problems if your laptop is stolen and you don't have backup copy of your data.
There are many different solutions for laptop security on the market, including data encryption products, anti-theft locks, tracking systems and other. User, that is aware of risk, shouldn't have any problems securing his laptop and data. But the biggest problem involved in securing laptops is mentality of laptop users, who generally don't think that their laptop could be stolen and that their data may be worth something for somebody.
In this guide, we present security solutions and guidelines in three articles:
