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Published: Friday 08 October 2004
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Name
Robert Campbell
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Occupation
IT Consultant
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What you deploy against this all really depends upon the nature of the threat you percieve...
Casual theft: Most people, IT managers and the like, fall into this category. They think the laptop will be stolen and then formatted and sold at the nearest car boot sale. Wrong laptops are being targeted for sale to those that will use the data for ID theft.
Gat some HDD encryption installed for less than £100 protect absolutely the real asset: the data. Utimaco's SafeGuard Easy is the "dogs"; IBM have sanctioned it and are now offering it with every laptop. Utimaco were at and were sponsoring the Gartner conference :-)
http://www.ecommnet.co.uk/products/laptop.asp
Biometric protection? Can anybody direct me toward...
Justin Wheatley
Justin, there are some laptops on the market with ...
Ruprecht
What you deploy against this all really depends up...
Robert Campbell
Well actually no, the BIOS can be re-set and the p...
Robert Campbell
Rule of thumb: if they have unrestrained physical ...
Anonymous
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