Home » Working Women » Computer savvy » Preventing Laptop Theft Thieves know that people who carry laptops are busy, tired and distracted. You're especially vulnerable in airports, hotel lobbies and conference rooms. This means that you need to pay as much attention to your laptop as you do your purse.

To keep your laptop safe at work and on the road, use a bicycle-type cable lock to secure it to an immovable object. When you're on the move, use an alarm with a key-chain transmitter to alert you if the thief strays more than 10 feet away, or a motion detector that sounds when someone picks it up. When the 110-decibel alarm sounds, the thief is likely drop the laptop and this might damage it. So make sure you're carrying the laptop in an adequately padded case. And if you feel all these are measures are expensive, then make sure you never leave the laptop down.

GETTING A LAPTOP BACK

What are the chances of getting a stolen laptop back?

It isn't easy trying to get a laptop back, unless you resort to investing in some technology.
There are programmes and monitoring services available that enable your computer to silently call home and tell you the location of the lost laptop. The police can issue a warrant and you can get the laptop back. If you suspect an employee of stealing your laptop (which makes for a good percentage of laptop thefts), you can have the monitoring service report it to you. Theft-retrieval software is not detectable by virus-detection programmes and is difficult to delete.