I recently went through an unhappy experience of losing a laptop. There is a lot of personal and company data on the laptop and and going through the exercise of trying to determine all the information risk comes the realization of how lax I’ve been in mixing personal and professional information on my different desktops and laptops. I was lucky in that the laptop I lost was brand new so there was very little on it and had nothing sensitive on it other then my own work and personal info. Here is a list of 10 things that must be done when something like this happens.
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