eWeek has published a slideshow of 10 Reasons Why Your Laptop is at Risk that include guidelines for preventing data loss, in every way from patching your system to common sense laptop practices.

The 10 reasons are:

  1. Hard Drives Aren’t Encrypted
  2. USB Drives Aren’t Glued Shut
  3. Work-Home Lines are Crossed
  4. End Users Aren’t Security-Aware
  5. Physical Security Isn’t Implemented
  6. The “Duh” Factor is Ignored
  7. Systems Aren’t Labeled
  8. The Eyes Don’t Have It
  9. No-Jack
  10. As the Worm Turns

The ninth item makes reference to Absolute Software’s Lojack for Laptops:

“Like Lojack for laptops, computer tracing programs can track and recover a lost or stolen laptop, and even render a laptop useless from afar.”

For more information on some of the more cryptic slide titles, check out the full slideshow here.

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