Intel® Anti-Theft Technology Increases Mobile Security
Laptop loss or theft is one way sensitive data containing enterprise and customer confidential information is leaked outside an organization. The risk is not a negligible one, either for the employee or the organization. Most mobile users carry and rely on laptops containing the data, applications, and resources they need to perform their duties. Loss or theft of such a notebook will expose sensitive data to a third party unless security measures are taken to prevent or at least extremely obstruct such unauthorized access.
In a recent Wipro study, 70% of the participating organizations reported laptop thefts. A 2011 investigation from Australia’s New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research states, “In 2010, laptops were the second most stolen object type in household burglary incidents with a laptop being taken in one in four break-ins. This is a substantial rise from 2001 when they were ranked 21st and stolen in just over one in 20 burglaries.”
The authors conclude that there is a strong market for those stolen laptops as they “often contain personal and financial information which can be used in the course of other criminal activity such as identity theft and fraud.”
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Intel® Anti-Theft Technology Increases Mobile Security
Laptop loss or theft is one way sensitive data containing enterprise and customer confidential information is leaked outside an organization. The risk is not a negligible one, either for the employee or the organization. Most mobile users carry and rely on laptops containing the data, applications, and resources they need to perform their duties. Loss or theft of such a notebook will expose sensitive data to a third party unless security measures are taken to prevent or at least extremely obstruct such unauthorized access.
In a recent Wipro study, 70% of the participating organizations reported laptop thefts. A 2011 investigation from Australia’s New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research states, “In 2010, laptops were the second most stolen object type in household burglary incidents with a laptop being taken in one in four break-ins. This is a substantial rise from 2001 when they were ranked 21st and stolen in just over one in 20 burglaries.”
The authors conclude that there is a strong market for those stolen laptops as they “often contain personal and financial information which can be used in the course of other criminal activity such as identity theft and fraud.”
Read the full Intel® Anti-Theft Technology Increases Mobile Security White Paper.
