5 essential tips to protect your Laptop

Now days the theft of laptops has been very serious issue, It is common nowadays to use a laptop for work away from home or office. Unfortunately, the mobility and technology that made the laptops easy to carry and handle to its owner as well as the thefts around the world.
If your laptop is stolen, the personal informations will be exposed to that thieve and he may use your information for illegal works.

In this article I'll give you 5 essential tips to keep your laptop more secure.

1. Keep your password safe : Never leave any of your passwords on the box / bag where you keep the laptop . If you keep your passwords with your laptop is like leaving the keys attached to the car. Remember that without your passwords, it will be difficult to open your computer and access your personal information.

2. Always keep your laptop with you: The theft of a laptop is a crime of opportunity. Always take your computer with you, take a look regularly. For example, if you're meeting someone, you leave your laptop in a safe place and out of sight. The farther the better, try not to leave your laptop in an accessible area, such as a hotel desk. If you have a safe or a safety cable to use it.
3. Encrypt your data : Do you have sensitive data in your laptop? Encrypt it. If someone gets your laptop and have access to your files, Data encryption can give you an extra layer of protection because, the thieves can not see Encrypted data they can see the data in cryptographic texts. Only you can decrypt the data and get back if it needed. Encryption softwares such as TrueCrypt, Steganos Safe, do the job very easy and they also comply with the highest data encryption standards. Windows users can use the encrypted file system (EFS) to encrypt files and folders.
4. Password protects your systems : Every laptop user should protect their laptop with passwords launch. Put the BIOS password to lock the system before the OS even begins, If the Operating system starts then the thieve easily crack the password. But you have to note down that password if in future you lost your password then its very difficult to get back the password. Its very hard to get information saved in Password protected laptops are hard to Windows users can set a password to start Windows. Remember that passwords launch prohibit any access to the computer at all (in theory).
   Choose a good password - uses letters, numbers and ASCII characters. Difficult to guess the only way to avoid thieves guess your password. If your laptop has biometric authentication, you must use your fingerprint instead of a password.
5. laptop theft tracking software:If the worst happens and your laptop was stolen, It would be great to get it back? You should know how to recover stolen laptop, how to trace/locate stolen laptop with stolen laptop tracking softwares. There are many companies who provides laptop theft tracking software (Laptop anti theft softwares )which allows the stolen laptop to send its location (for example, LaptopLock, Security Suite etc.) This will help us to locate stolen laptop. Unfortunately, It also has a drawback such as, these programs work only when the computer laptop connects to the Internet.

Keep in mind these 5 Essential Tips will save your laptops from laptop thieves.

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