Using your laptop to get work done away from your office or on the road is becoming widely accepted. But this rapid growth in laptop computer usage has made mobile information devices and the data they hold the target for theft around the world.

If your laptop is stolen, company information can be exposed, as well as your personal and financial information.

The impact on your business of such an incident can be catastrophic. Over 40% of businesses suffering large scale data loss never re-open [i] and in the UK the average data security incident costs approximately £5000 [ii].

There can be serious consequences from even the smallest incident;

Your laptop is a crucial link in the information safety chain for your business. Often your laptop is the one unprotected link in this chain – the weak link that can leave your company exposed as the importance of the data held on it is frequently underestimated.

On March 24, 2006 the Wall St Journal noted that laptops prove to be the weakest link in data protection. The journal noted that Boston-based mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments disclosed that one its laptops was stolen containing the personal information of 196,000 current and former Hewlwtt-Packard employees.

Why expose years of accumulated critical business data merely because your laptop is unprotected?

Follow our Complete Laptop Data Protection Guide to ensure your business data remains safe.