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Title: Working in the wild: if a laptop is stolen, encryption software keeps data hidden, while tracking software "phones home," making it easy to catch the crooks.(Case Study)
Author: Teresa Anderson
Publication: Security Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2007
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: 51 Issue: 9 Page: 48(2)
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
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BEFORE ACCOUNTING FIRM Grant Thornton's employees head into the field, they are issued a laptop. In the past, the laptops were equipped with a locating device that automatically reported back to the IT department at company headquarters as soon as an employee logged on to the machine. However, that meant that the computers and their contents remained vulnerable during the time between when they were checked out from headquarters and when they were activated by a Grant Thornton employee.
