Laptop Theft Facts

• One out of every 10 notebook computers will be stolen within the first 12 months of purchase, and 90% of them will never be recovered. - FB
• $47,000 - average cost of a laptop theft/loss. - FBI/CSI
• Laptop theft doubled over the past year.  - FB
• Targeted laptop theft on the rise.- FB
• Over 85% of theft is insider job.- FB
• Laptop theft is one of the top 3 computer crimes along with virus and hacking - FBI.
• “laptops are the most stolen article of property in San Francisco,”- San Francisco Police Department, Aug 22, 02.
• 81% of U.S. firms lost laptops with sensitive data in the past year- Ponemon Institute, Aug 2006
• "Loss of confidential data -- including intellectual property, business documents, customer data and employee records -- is a pervasive problem among U.S. companies"- ComputerWorld, Aug 2006.
• Seven out of 10 organisations had laptop computers stolen during the past 12 months, according to a recent survey" - AusCERT, 2006

Laptop related

•  Laptop theft related 60% of corporate data resides on desktops and laptops -IDC
• One out of every two computers in the world will be a laptop by 2008- IDC