Register Your Laptop With Its Manufacture
When you purchase a product or serivce you usually are given the option to register as a customer. There are various reasons why manfacture do this.
- Marketing
- To Receive product updates
- Proof of ownership
If your laptop ever becomes stolen you’ll want as much help as possible to attempt to recovery the device. Registering a product or service allows to inform the manfacture that you have legal ownership of the laptop so if its ever recovered under a different owner the manufacture will know its stolen property. To reigster your laptop you’ll be ask to provide its serial number, which should be recorded as part of your asset tagging proceedure. You maybe required to provide further proof of ownership depending on the manufacture of the laptop.
Record Laptop Serial Numbers For Reference
It should be pretty much the norm to record a serial number of any electronic devices that we decide to purchase. Given their price and the endless things that can go wrong having the serial number recorded and stored safely is pretty much common practice.
Protect Laptops & Mobile Devices Using Internet Tracking Software
If you follow all of the 16 protection steps for laptop protection you can still be at risk of misplacing your laptop or it being stolen. When it comes to a business and its data risks cannot be taken, especially when the data is sensitive and tools are widely available to avoid those risks. By tracking our mobile devices, such as a laptop, we are given more control of our data residing on the hard drive of that device for extra laptop security.
Use A Locking Device To Secure Laptops To A Desk
An easy way to stop your laptop from taking a walk when you are not watching over it is to use a laptop security lock. These cables attach onto the notebook and can be hooked onto a desk or other office fixtures. Read more
Secure Laptops In Storage When Not In Use
If you use a laptop at work but don’t take it home, where exactly do you leave it? Do you simply shut down the notebook and leave it on your desk?
Common sense tells us never to leave valuables insight for an opportunist to take and laptops are no different. Even though we are comfortable in a place of business it really doesn’t mean we are safe from thieves.