You were right, cars are the third most popular place for your laptop to banish, and follow in descending order other places like businesses and offices, colleges and universities, hotels and motels, restaurants, stores and shopping malls, taxis, buses, trains, and airports.
I cannot explain how is this happening. We have to consider no too many students carry on laptops to high schools, how come they are able to take a laptop then?
On 2009, a study performed by the Ponemon Institute in the name of Intel Corp. established that costs of a lost laptop reached a value of $49,246. Costs include these seven variables: replacement cost, detection, forensics, data breach, lost intellectual property costs, lost productivity, and legal, consulting and regulatory expenses.
As we are on the proximity of Holidays, it is important you consider John Egan's recommendations to keep your laptop safe and at sight:
10 Ways to Protect Your Laptop From Being Stolen
1. Don't leave your laptop in an unlocked vehicle.
2.Carry your laptop in a nondescript carrying case, briefcase or bag.
3. Don't leave a meeting or conference room without your laptop if you are going to lunch or taking a break.
4. Lock your laptop in your office during off-hours. Specially if you are a teacher.
5. Consider engraving or marking your laptop with identifying information. White correction fluid is a good substance to use. Something that last three years, the life period of a laptop.
6. Back up your data offline or online.
7. At airports, don't send your laptop through the X-ray machine until you are ready to walk through the metal detector, and don't go through the metal detector until your laptop is well inside the machine. Pick up your laptop as soon as it comes out of the X-ray machine.
8. Don’t leave your laptop unattended ---in a conference room, a classroom, a coffee shop, an airport, a hotel room.
9. Use the Universal Security Slot (USS) on the side of your laptop to attach a security cable or alarm when leaving the computer at your desk or in your office.
10. Look into software that can track your computer. When a stolen or lost machine is turned on and connected to the Internet, your laptop will record and send information to a special server or via email.
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