More Than 630,000 Laptops Lost at Airports Each Year
(June 30, 2008) More Than 630,000 Laptops Lost at Airports Each Year (June 30, 2008) A Ponemon Institute survey of 106 airports in 46 states found that as many as 637,000 laptops are reported lost each year. Overall, more than 12,000 laptops are reported lost at the airports every week, and 67% are never recovered. The 36 largest US airports account for more than 10,000 lost laptops each week. The laptops are most commonly lost at security checkpoints and departure gates. The survey also included feedback from 864 business travelers: 53% said their laptops held confidential data; 42% said their data was not backed up; 16% said they would do nothing if they lost a laptop while traveling on business; 77% said the chance of recovering a lost laptop was less than ten percent. The study was commissioned by Dell, which has just released "a suite of data protection and asset protection services," including laptop tracking and remote data deletion.
Here's a link to the full text of the study. When will people learn that encryption is easy?
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