A recent study on lost laptops by Dell and the Ponenom Institute show how important data protection and encryption are, especially for portable devices. Here are some of the findings.

• 12,000 laptops are lost in US airports each week.
• 65-70% are never reclaimed.
• 53% carried sensitive corporate information.

Guess how many of those machines were protected with encryption.

You can read the entire report [pdf] and find out on page 7.

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