Guest Tiffany Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 Hi, my company recently was broken in by a burglar and all the laptops was stolen. We are using Microsoft Vista. May I know any other security that provide added security to our laptop to deter unauthorised person to login to our laptops other than just the user id and password. Kindly advise. Thank you Quote
Guest VanguardLH Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 Tiffany wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Hi, > > my company recently was broken in by a burglar and all the laptops was > stolen. We are using Microsoft Vista. May I know any other security that > provide added security to our laptop to deter unauthorised person to login to > our laptops other than just the user id and password. > > Kindly advise. > > Thank you</span> What was "loll tss" supposed to mean in your Subject line? Too late to do anything about protecting your company's data on those stolen laptops. Are you asking how to protect your data on your new laptops (and after collecting on the insurance)? Tell your IT folks to start looking at partition or whole-disk encryption. Some laptops include the chip needed to do it in BIOS along with a hard disk to support it. Otherwise, you need to start Googling around for disk encryption programs. I use TrueCrypt but not for encrypting an entire partition but it can be used for that and it is free. I only need to protect my data files so I use Truecrypt containers in which I save my files. I don't need to protect software vendors from thieves that get a copy of their software on my stolen laptop. Quote
Guest FromTheRafters Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 "Tiffany" <Tiffany@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B8B12FE2-C0E9-48AE-A5DC-BFBBF0185318@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue"> > Hi, > > my company recently was broken in by a burglar and all the laptops was > stolen. We are using Microsoft Vista. May I know any other security > that > provide added security to our laptop to deter unauthorised person to > login to > our laptops other than just the user id and password.</span> Bitlocker with TPM? Quote
Guest Shenan Stanley Posted February 26, 2009 Posted February 26, 2009 Tiffany wrote:<span style="color:blue"> > my company recently was broken in by a burglar and all the laptops > was stolen. We are using Microsoft Vista. May I know any other > security that provide added security to our laptop to deter > unauthorised person to login to our laptops other than just the > user id and password.</span> Seriously? Are you asking in the theoretical or is this reality? If reality, this is known as 'asking too late.' If you had known about things you could do before the laptops were stolen, maybe there would be something ('added security') that would help 'deter' someone from being able to logon to your laptops (although - with physical access - logging in just isn't really necessary in most cases.) The irony being that if you knew about the things to do before the laptops were stolen, you wouldn't be here asking the question (given that you would have known.) Thus - loll in your subject would apply to your actions thus far. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loll However - if this is theoretical - other than things like bitlocker and EFS, protection given physical access (say, after a theft, etc) and time (depending on the method - some number of minutes to days/weeks/months/years...) is not something technology will act as much of a deterrent for. What is Encrypting File System (EFS)? http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/e...b155c21033.mspx Explore the features: BitLocker Drive Encryption http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-v.../bitlocker.aspx Perhaps those can help you in the future, if unused up to this point - better start remembering what critical/telling data might have been on each of those laptops and act accordingly (contacts banks, credit card companies, customers, change internal/external passwords, contact the authorities, etc. I'd say the last one there applies no matter what.) If you are wondering why I would put it all this way, it's really simple... If BitLocker or EFS was not used - and all that was wanted was the data - such a thief would probably just image the entire hard drive and leave the laptops (although - I suppose - hocking them for a little profit is fine too, albeit a risk.) Then they can peruse the data that the laptops once contained their leisure from where ever they desired. Would be simpler and would get the obvious proof that they stole laptops (the laptops themselves) out of their possession fairly quickly. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Quote
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