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Last updated: Friday, July 10, 2009

The Ponemon Institute, in partnership with Dell, has published results of a recent study on the link between computer theft and business travel. The Ponemon Institute conducted a survey of 106 American airports and more than 800 business travelers throughout the first half of 2008 in an effort to understand how laptops are stolen or lost, and what could be done to prevent these incidents. Amongst the more surprising figures to come out of the report was the discovery that 12,000 laptops are stolen or lost at airports across the USA every week. More surprisingly, about 42% of those surveyed stated that they did not back up their data. For laptop users, it’s not always convenient to back up data using traditional backup methods that require the user to physically be at the office. As a result, it’s easy to see how someone might fall out of the habit and back up once every few months, or not at all. For business managers, even a small data loss incident can be very costly. That’s why it’s so important to implement a fully-automate backup system for laptop-based mobile & remote employees. Preferably, this should be a fully-automated solution that runs effortlessly in the background — regardless of physical location. This eliminates the possibility of human error. In the early days of online backup, some laptop users might have been reluctant to accept this technology for their data protection. But today, many backup companies offer alternatives such as offer “hybrid local/online backup” that save multiple point-in-time file versions to a local partition on your hard drive. Take Storagepipe’s CDP Online Backup as an example. If you need to recover your data quickly without internet access, you can still do so from your local hard drive…

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New Statistics Available About Airport Laptop Theft

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