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Here are the most common reasons employees will give for losing their laptops - and the data on it! The costs to recover the laptop, all your customer data and your reputation afterwards are catastrophic! Trust is a difficult thing to regain once lost - bad PR, especially once on the internet, is a difficult thing to forget! If you've common across any other excuses, we'd love to hear from you! Leave us a comment
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Laptop theft within organisations: the hidden threat
It’s no secret – well at least not a well kept one – laptop theft within organisations is
very common.
Around 90% of all organisations are affected and of these, 56% report the
incident resulted in data breach.
Industry figures show that as many as one in every ten laptops will be stolen during their very brief lives: the average life of a
laptop is just three years.
If you take the time to think about all the personal data stored on your laptop, the
consequences of losing it are highly damaging.
There are the costs to replace the data, to convince your customers to stay with you
after you’ve potentially leaked their personal information, and the cost of down time
There’s also the amount you’ll be splashing out on PR to hush up the incident!
So why risk it?
Below are the top 7 excuses your colleagues will give to justify their actions:
The top seven excuses your colleagues will use are:
1. We were burgled
The top seven excuses your colleagues will use are:
2. I was at a conference, I turned my back to talk to someone and, pow, it was gone
The top seven excuses your colleagues will use are:
3. I was only away for a minute
The top seven excuses your colleagues will use are:
4. I left it in the car
The top seven excuses your colleagues will use are:
5. I thought it would be safe
The top seven excuses your colleagues will use are:
6. I asked the person next to me to watch my stuff – he looked really trustworthy
The top seven excuses your colleagues will use are:
7. It was on my desk – then it was gone
Considering that the number one reason for data breach is laptop or
notebook theft, none of these reasons is good enough.
Most theft is
Opportunistic
Once reformatted, stolen laptops are difficult to spot
Most laptops - 58% - are stolen from work
Thieves usually steal laptops for their resale value rather than for the data
Laptops are easy to sell anonymously over the internet
If any if the excuses you’ve heard are not in the list, let us know in the comments below!
Prevent your organisation from becoming one of these statistics by learning more about
Laptop physical security in our whitepaper.
It contains everything you need to know about laptop theft and how to prevent it!
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