Mobile defense forces: Securing your laptops
Perhaps you followed the dramatic headlines in May as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs came to grips with the fact that it had lost a laptop (that has since been recovered) with personal information on 26.5 million veterans and active-duty soldiers, potentially exposing them to identity theft. Since then, you might have overlooked the missing New York state government laptop with 540,000 names. Or the Federal Trade Commission laptops with 110 names. Or the Ernst & Young Global Ltd. laptop with 243,000 names. Or the YMCA of Greater Providence, R.I., laptop with 68,000 names. Or the Equifax Inc. laptop with 2,900 names. Or the ING Groep NV laptop with 13,000 names. Or the Internal Revenue Service laptop with 291 names. Or the Ahold USA Inc. laptop with an undisclosed number of names.