Digital Cyanide for Stolen Laptops iPass extends security measures to devices gone astray
In 2005, approximately 750,000 laptops thefts occurred in the U.S.—that's more than 2,000 daily.1
Some 94 percent of small companies in Europe have suffered from laptops being stolen.2
While the average laptop is worth about $1,500, the commercially sensitive data and intellectual property it contains is worth almost $1 million.3
A staggering 97 percent of stolen PCs are never recovered.4
If all this talk of stolen laptops—and the potential damage they can cause—has you worried, you have good reason to be. Stolen laptops pose a real threat—both to those whose information is compromised and to the organizations that are responsible.
Companies must take measures to protect the intellectual property and confidential customer information stored on these vulnerable laptop PCs, or risk suffering irreparable harm to their brand. In a study titled "Secure the Trust of Your Brand," Symantec and Factiva surveyed some 2,200 consumers. The results are sobering. "More than one-third would 'strongly consider' taking their business elsewhere if their personal information was compromised, and one-quarter would 'definitely' do so if they felt their information was at risk" 5 (read more about stolen laptops that have made recent headlines).
There are options available for extending security measures to these at-risk endpoint devices. Some—including locking the laptop with a cable, subscribing to a tracking service and using dedicated hardware—are less than ideal.
iPass Offers a Better Way
Device Management from iPass offers you better ways to manage and protect your mobile devices. The easy-to-use Device Management is an extremely flexible tool that enables IT to perform tasks that fall outside the boundaries of traditional device management products. Through the creation and distribution of customized task packages (one or more scripted commands compressed into a single executable), your IT staff gain the ability to track remote devices and delete confidential data or encrypt hard drives of missing devices… we like to think of it as digital cyanide for stolen laptops.
Device Management Features
Internet-Aware Client: Track and possibly recover your missing devices thanks to beaconing technologies built into the Device Management client, which record every Internet connection.
File Recovery Support: Upload or save files to FTP before taking more drastic action.
Support for Microsoft Encrypted File System (EFS) & other third-party encryption tools: Remotely encrypt files and folders.
Data Destruction: Remotely destroy files and folders as a command or time-delayed event.
File-Hunting Capabilities: Find and encrypt or delete specific file types, such as all spreadsheets or email archive files, using flexible search options.
Robust Reporting: Track the status of data-destruction commands as they are being downloaded by stolen systems.
Extreme Ease of Use: Allow your IT and helpdesk staff to become quickly proficient, often with little or no training.
Flexible Hosting Options: Host the Device Management server yourself, or let iPass host it for you.
1 "Stop laptop losses and thefts," Fierce CIO.com, July 2006.
2 "Small businesses suffer laptop theft," Internet Travel News, July 2006.
3 "Could your laptop be worth millions?" Silicon.com, January 2006.
4 "Getting over laptop loss," CNET News.com, June 2006.
5 "Recent IT Thefts Leave Vendors, VARs Scrambling For Security," VARBusiness, August 2006.
