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Keep Your Laptop Safe

January 2009



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Value In Your Laptop

• Mobile computing is essential for business• The laptop is an extension of the office• It may carry critical business documents• One usually gets to work on the laptop while

on the road• Your laptop may be the only machine you use

(at home or in the office) !




Consider this !

Up to 12,000 laptops are lost in US airports each week

Between 65 and 70 % of lost laptops are never reclaimed

53 % of business travelers surveyed carry sensitive corporate

information on their laptop

65 % of those who carry confidential information have nottaken steps to protect it while traveling

42 % of respondents say they do not back up their data

Most laptops are lost at security checkpoints

Source: Lost Laptop and Business Traveler Study by Dell and th e Ponemon Institutehttp://www.dell.com/downloads/global/services/dell_lost_laptop_study.pdf

The first study of its kind by was carried out in the first half of 2008. The PonemonInstitute surveyed 106 United States airports and over 800 business travelersto understand thefrequency with whichlaptops are lost in airports

and the steps businesstravelers are taking to protect sensitiveinformation on corporatesystems.

You may want toconsider these facts asyou carry your laptop.This may well apply to allmobile devices.

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/services/dell_lost_laptop_study.pdf






The Basics• Enable PASSWORD access to your machine and please use a

complex password. As an additional protection you should put apassword in the BIOS too.

• If your laptop has a second factor authentication (Biometrics, SmartCard), create your profile and secure access to the machine.

• MARK YOUR LAPTOP AND THE LAPTOP CASE with a tag or asticker or some sort of unique identifier. Put some identificationtag(s) / mark(s) on both – the laptop and the case. Considerputting your corporate logo on all laptops

• WORKING IN PUBLIC PLACES is one time when someone maybe watching you so make sure you are sitting in a reserved place,or use privacy filters to prevent people watching your screen. Alsomake sure no one is looking into your screen over your shoulder

• FIREWALL and ANTIVIRUS on your machine must be enabled




Dear Road Warrior … TakeCare

Some simple commandments that can avoid headaches and preservecompany information:

NEVER LEAVE YOUR LAPTOP UNATTENDED

ALWAYS KEEP YOUR LAPTOP WITHIN SIGHT

BACK UP YOUR DATA REGULARLY

ENCRYPT YOUR HARD DRIVE, OR AT LEAST YOUR SENSITIVE FILES

NEVER CHECK IN YOUR LAPTOP WHEN TRAVELLING

AVOID ACTIVATING FILE SHARING

DO NOT PLUG UNKNOWN USB DEVICES TO YOUR LAPTOPENSURE YOU PLUG INTO THE CORRECT VOLTAGE (!)

FOLLOW ‘THE BASICS’ AND ‘NET ACCESS’ SAFETY GUIDANCE




More Safety For Net Access• BLUETOOTH should always be disabled as a

habit. If you need to connect with your other devices that can be done in the hotel room or office ! Or, switch it on when you want toconnect and then turn it off… but avoid this in

public places.• UNSECURED WIRELESS NETWORKS welcome

you to log on and get to work. Avoid this. Just take it easy and do not log on to suchnetworks in public places.

•When accessing the internet from other locations, do not allow your browser / application to “remember” your username-

password settings.

Public WiFi putsyou on acommonnetwork withunknown users.As on anynetwork it ispossible totrace others inthe samesegmentbringing with it

the riskmaliciousaccess to yourmachine.


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Laptop Search!• Are you traveling to USA ?

Be informed that your laptop can be inspected by USCustoms ! Information can be copied by them from yourmachine and if the data on your hard disk is encrypted youwill have to provide them with the key.

Call it a Laptop Body and Soul Search but you have to livewith it.

Make sure you do not have any data which they cannotunderstand and clean out the temp files and browser cache.

Better to carry a clean machine than to spend time waitingfor them to complete their investigation, or fieldingquestions about your history, and you can store anddownload your work-in-hand data from an FTP site after youenter the US.


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Disclaimer: The practices listed in the document are provided as is and as guidance and theauthors do not claim that these comprise the only practices to be followed. The readers areurged to make informed decisions in their usage. Feedback is solicited and you can accessother topics at our website www.securians.com

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