Laptop Anti Theft Security

The most effective, the simplest, and perhaps the most overlooked tool to prevent laptop theft is the laptop cable lock. Always keep the cable lock with your laptop bag. Use it whenever you have to leave the laptop unattended. It doesn’t matter if you leave it for just a few minutes, in a secure office, in a hotel room, in your car, LOCK IT. A few minutes can save you thousands of bucks.

But disasters do happen. If you lose your laptop, you lose valuable data that can be expensive, if not impossible, to recreate. Imagine losing all your pictures, your downloaded music, your documents, your family videos. The solution, which again is simple but is often overlooked, is to backup your data. Backup solutions need not be expensive or complicated. I use a free software tool called Allway Sync, which can be used to synchronize your hard disk with a USB drive. It only copies the changed files so the syncing routine may not take too long.