Cost of a Lost Laptop: A Study Conducted by the Ponemon Institute
Created on: Apr 22, 2009 12:40 PM by Josh Hilliker - Last Modified: Apr 23, 2009 12:26 PM by Michele Gartner
An increasingly mobile workforce is putting corporations’ sensitive and confidential information at
great risk. It is the information age and employees are carrying more information on their laptops
than ever before. These so called power users of corporate data are losing their laptops at such
diverse locations as airports, conferences, in taxis, in rental cars and in hotels, just to name a few
locations vulnerable to losing a laptop. With each lost laptop there is the risk that sensitive data
about customers, employees and business operations will end up in the wrong hands.
Full Disk Encryption
says:
Appreciate you posting the whitepaper here for us. Has there been a recent study done on the same ?
high power led
says:
I lost my laptop on hotel last year too.Fortunately I make a backup on my u-disk.
Laptop Encryption
says:
I think the reason is that there is a clear knowledge gap. There is a great divide between organisations that have been breached and those that haven't.
Once it becomes real to people, they understand it. The real challenge is in communicating the right message to the right people and continuing to do so. It's not about standards, it's not about laziness and it's not about budget, it's about understanding
Just found this white paper and its shocking that the cost of a lost computer is so high yet most people still dont encrypt their laptops to protect the data.