laptop theft statistics
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Laptop theft within businesses is alarmingly common. Protect yourself and your business and prevent becoming one of the statistics by educating yourself about the problem!If you feel we missed any important ones, let us know in the comments!TRANSCRIPT
Laptop theft statistics
A scary but helpful guide for IT managers
In the lifetime of every laptop there’s a 1 in 10 chance that it will get stolen.
Statistics show that as many as one in ten laptops will be stolen or lost from an organisation over
the lifetime of each computer
That’s 10% of your colleagues and co-workers knocking on your door for a replacement
machine
This dismal scenario is extremely common. Around 90% of organisations are affected
IDC research shows that the office is the most likely place for a thief to strike
86% of IT security practitioners report that someone in their organization has had a laptop
lost or stolen
56% report that it resulted in a data breach
59% of business managers surveyed agree that encryption stops cyber criminals from stealing
data on laptops versus 46% of IT security practitioners who strongly agree or agree
65% of business managers surveyed record their encryption password on a private document such as a post-it note to jog their memory or share the
key with other individuals
50% of business managers have disengaged their laptop’s encryption solution
40% admit this is in violation of their company’s security policy
52% of business managers sometimes or often leave their laptop with a stranger when travelling
1 in 10 laptops are stolen in the lifetime of the laptop (usually around 3 years)
89% of companies experience laptop loss
It takes average of 9 days to get fully operational after laptop loss
The average total cost to a business from laptop loss is $47,000 (including downtime, support
& management time etc)
Only 25% of laptops have data
encryption and 50% of business managers with
encryption switch it off
1 in 10 business laptops gets stolen. The result can be catastrophic
Learn more about physical security now and get protected against theft!
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