Laptop Anti-Theft: bit.ly Laptop theft in hotels and airports is rampant. Learn how to protect you laptop or notebook while traveling from identity theft expert John Sileo. www.Sileo.com Laptop anti-theft, or protecting your mobile data, is a MUST for corporations and consumers. Almost half of workplace identity theft takes place because of mobile data. And the average value of the data on your laptop can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to a corporate spy or experienced identity thief. At the higher end of the scale, the value of the 26 million Veteran identities on a laptop lost over a year ago was estimated to be worth more than 0 million. Those are the types of computer security risks that can make your business unprofitable. But there are solutions. Broken Window Theory: By removing graffiti and repairing broken windows in crime hot-spots throughout New York City, the NYPD was able to drastically reduce the entire citys overall crime rate (not just the quantity of graffiti and broken windows), including thefts, burglaries, muggings and murders. In other words, certain actions that we take (eg, focusing on crime hot-spots rather than on every type of crime) can have a disproportionately positive effect on achieving our goal (eg, lower crime rates). Business translation: you get a far higher return on investment for certain well-planned tactical strikes than you do for far more expensive strategic initiatives. My point? In the world of workplace identity …

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