Some great news from Absolute Software - The ASUS B50 line of business notebooks will now provided embedded support for Absolute’s anti-theft and management solution, Computrace.

ASUS is one of the world’s top 10 notebook manufacturers, with the B50 taking into consideration the needs of mobile business executives. The B50 features an integrated biometric fingerprint scanner, Trusted Platform Module for secure login and encryption, and now embedded Computrace support. You can read more about this news here.

What does embedded support mean?

This means that all the great features of Computrace are embedded at the firmware level, not the software level. When consumers activate the service, Absolute can provide a level of security and recovery capabilities at a higher level.

Embedding support for the Computrace agent into the BIOS provides customers the highest level of persistence and allows the Computrace agent to survive operating system re-installations, hard drive reformats and even hard drive replacements. That means anyone trying to remove the security features to get at your data is going to have a much harder time.

For a full list of computers with embedded support for Computrace (Dell, Fujitsu, etc), check here.

Also in company news, Absolute will showcased it’s laptop security solutions at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Taipei on October 20-21. For more information, read here.