By safegardit on Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:08 PM

by Edward C Baig, USA Today
April, 9, 2002

Sadly, there is war again overseas, but then, as now, you need not harbor military secrets to fret about a potential laptop heist. Whether it's your personal finance data on Quicken or proprietary marketing plans that must be kept from an unscrupulous competitor, civilians routinely carry revealing bits best kept out of foreign hands. Of course, even when the stored information isn't so hush-hush, a bad guy (or gal) will gladly fence a notebook for a quick dollar.

According to the 2002 Computer Security Institute/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, the ... Read More »

By safegardit on Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:07 PM

By David Raikow, VARBusiness
April 02, 2007

By some estimates, as many as 90 percent of businesses have had at least one laptop stolen in the past year. And not even the most security-conscious organizations are immune. In a February 2007 audit, the U.S. Department of Justice reported that 44 laptops were stolen from the Federal Bureau of Investigation over the past 4 years, up nearly 40 percent from an audit in 2002.

The most obvious costs of laptop theft--hardware replacement and data recovery--can prove almost insignificant in comparison to the security breach that theft may cause.