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| Taking your laptop? Keep it and your precious data safe |
If you're one of the millions of Americans who travel with laptop PCs for business or pleasure, are you sure you're properly protecting your computer companion? According to tech security giant Symantec, a laptop is stolen every 53 seconds in the USA and 97% of them are never recovered.Losing the computer itself may be the least of your worries when you consider the valuable data that resides on it: financial records, passwords, private documents or irreplaceable digital photos.
"The key to protecting your personal or business data is encryption and backup," says Peter Firstbrook at Gartner Research. "With encryption, you are preventing someone from accessing your information, while backing up your data is a safeguard in case your laptop is stolen, damaged or lost."
With that in mind, the following is a look at software and hardware solutions to protecting your laptop, and perhaps more important, the critical files that reside on it. Taking your laptop? Keep it and your precious data safe - USATODAY.com Linked by LT Hacker
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