Theft

Computer theft is a common occurrence costing millions of dollars in lost equipment and productivity. However no price can be put on losing precious videos and pictures. A laptop can be replaced but wedding and graduation pictures or video of baby’s first steps cannot.

Here are some of the findings of the 8th Annual 2010 BSI Computer Theft Survey:

• There were over 5,500,000 computers stolen in the USA in the last three years. Worldwide statistics are proportionally similar.
• According to the FBI, only 3% of unprotected (those that do not use a software tracking and recovery software) stolen computers are ever recovered.
• More than half (58.7%) of the survey respondents have been the victim of computer theft in the last 12 months.
• Seventy-one percent of respondents reported downtime due to computer theft ranging from several days to more than one month.

Granted, online backup won’t prevent theft but it will get you back up and running sooner and at the most current point possible once the computer is returned or a new one purchased.