Twenty-nine percent of all stolen laptops are taken from offices, with thefts from cars responsible for another 25 percent of laptop losses, according to survey data from CREDANT Technologies, a security software provider. Some of the 283 executives who responded to the survey noted that office laptops had been stolen despite being locked or even glued to desktops. Only 10 percent of the units had a full-disk encryption solution in place, and 82 percent of the stolen laptops were never recovered. (Security Management Online)Click here to obtain a copy of the full report.
Measures on how to better protect laptops are addressed in the Information and IT Security Workshop, 26 November, which, for those wishing to undertake a university-accredited path of study, forms part of the Security Management Stage 1 Course, 19-30 November 2007.
