LoJack For Your Notebook?

For the most part, I believe it is just a good idea not to store anything locally on your notebook that could be used to ruin your day. This means that those of you that store your passwords in text file along with you bank information need to stop that foolishness right off! Sorry, just had to get that out of my system.

Now for those of you that are truly concerned about what might happen if you did indeed have your notebook stolen, you could try a LoJack type solution like that of Absolute Software’s product. According to the Gnomie who submitted this to us, it is Canadian company with no real negative or positive track record (other than links from their Website). As a matter of fact, this same Gnomie expressed concern as to whether or not a service like this could in fact be legitimate?

Well I am going to go on record as saying that they appear to be quite legit. As a matter of fact, they offer some interesting thoughts in support of using their services…

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The Challenge

Most organizations would agree that managing and securing their computer assets constitutes a significant investment in time and money. As computer populations continue to increase (especially mobile and remote laptops) and the potential for data exposure grows, the need for tracking and security rises exponentially. Not complying with mandatory data use legislation, the unknown whereabouts of a computer, a leak of confidential data, or a lack of knowledge of your system details can be inconvenient, costly and may be lethal to your business.

The Solution

Remote or local, laptop or desktop, securing and managing computer assets has never been as cost-effective or headache-free. With the centralized management of its computer security and asset tracking services, Absolute Software provides organizations with a single point of control for their entire computer population.

With Absolute’s ComputraceComplete, tracking computers, software assets, controlling loss, and reducing total cost of ownership is now easy and effortless. Organizations can proactively enforce comprehensive security and asset tracking policies across the enterprise while increasing both end user and administrator productivity.

So now for the real question: Is this something that I would be willing to try myself? To be honest, I would be open to ‘trying it’ as a reviewer, however I purposely have NOTHING of value on my notebook that I am overly concerned with. Now if I had data on there that could cause me to loose my job or worse, then I would definitely be all over a service like this. Seriously, it sure beats getting canned!

[tags]notebook,lojack,centralized management,comprehensive security[/tags]