How Do You Protect Your PDA & Laptop if it is Lost or Stolen?
On Wednesday November 29th I attended the NY Business Expo and I had the opportunity to speak at one of the afternoon workshops entitled Benefit from a Smarter Computer Connection. The workshop discussed how to protect your wireless devices if they were lost or stolen. Here are some interesting statistics you might want to be aware of:
The key to successfully securing your pda or laptop, which as you know contains a great deal of information on your business, is to plan for what could happen. Your plan should include these three items: backing-up, software and hardware.
Backing up this will allow you to retrieve data that was lost or on your stolen machine quickly helping elevating some of the stress of losing your device.
The software you need to consider installing to protect your stolen or lost device is encryption software. Review the slides for other software options and let me know your thoughts by commenting below. Click here
- According to Symantec, a laptop is stolen every 53 seconds in the USA -- and 97% of them are never recovered.
- 600,000 laptops stolen in the USA alone in the year 2004
- In most cases a PDA will carry more vital data than the computers they pulled data from. PDA theft is twice as high as mobile PC theft. 15 to 20% of PDA’s are stolen each year.
The key to successfully securing your pda or laptop, which as you know contains a great deal of information on your business, is to plan for what could happen. Your plan should include these three items: backing-up, software and hardware.
Backing up this will allow you to retrieve data that was lost or on your stolen machine quickly helping elevating some of the stress of losing your device.
The software you need to consider installing to protect your stolen or lost device is encryption software. Review the slides for other software options and let me know your thoughts by commenting below. Click here
