Moral of the story is not narrowed to whether the device was left in the open, or in plain site in a vehicle, the lesson here is understanding best practices. Leaving a laptop unattended is an invitation for theft. Never leave a laptop in the passenger compartment. Window or not, the device will disappear. Use the…

All things being equal, fortunately you recovered your asset, and speaks to the value of the tracking program, and the functionality, responsiveness, and capabilities. In most cases, laptop assets that reveal this level of information is the norm, and is the basis by which this tracking software relies on.

Most thiefs know of someone ‘smart’ enough to hack a device, even talk their way around these safeguards by employing unsuspecting IT professionals. As for example, someone clean cut well dressed and courteous have wooed even myself into believing ‘they forgot the password’. The moment the BIOS screen refuses to allow…

A strong BIOS password will deny nearly 100% of all BIOS access attempts, and is the first place a ‘smart’ thief will go to load a new Operating System to over-write the existing partition. Additionally, never configure the optical drive and USB ports to boot ahead of the hard drive. Doing so defeats the password in…

First and foremost, recovery strategies MUST begin when a laptop is initially received. Use a strong password to access the BIOS, which prevents altering the boot sequence, denying the use of installing a new Operating System or executing a brute force application. Next, use a strong password with every logon user…