Business travelers lose over 12,000 laptops each week.
August 21st, 2008
According to a new report from Dell and the Ponemon Institute, (Airport Insecurity: The Case of Missing & Lost Laptops, June 30, 2008) U.S. business travelers misplace over 12,000 laptops every year in airports around the country. That’s over 624,000 laptops per year. If the average cost of each laptop lost was $1,500, business travelers would be losing a combined $936,000,000 annually.
Some other interesting facts:
Between 65 and 70 percent of lost laptops are never reclaimed,
Most laptops are lost at security checkpoints
Over 50 percent of business travelers carry sensitive corporate information on their laptops.