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Protecting Your SMB Against Laptop Theft

Jul 16, 2010
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ITBusinessEdge: Protecting Your SMB Against Laptop Theft

Paul Mah shows that the risk of laptop theft is always present and offers tips on and links to other articles about laptop security.


“I’ve written a number of blogs recently on how to achieve better information security for small and mid-sized businesses. Among others, I made the recommendation that SMBs should protect laptops with full-disk encryption software and usesecure flash drives to protect the information carried on portable storage devices.

As you can imagine, my interested was piqued when I read about a story on Infosec Island contributed by security analyst Robert Siciliano, aptly titled ‘My laptop security travel ordeal.’ While on a holiday trip to Mexico, Siciliano had to leave his laptop bag in the front of the car so he could join his wife at the back seat during the airport-to-hotel leg of his trip. Well, the action starts when he arrived at the hotel…”

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