mikec

I've been talking with some people in my company about laptop security ...we exclusively use dell laptops.

We need some additional security in place because of the potential for laptops to be stolen. I thought some security measures that could be put into place are: using XP's functionality to encrypt the HD, use a bios hard drive password, and possibly install lojack for laptops on all machines.

My questions to the group are: how difficult do you think it is to break xp's encryption?

how hard to bypass a bios HD password? it's easy enough to work around a windows password (super ERD), and lojack for laptops only seems to work on the windows install it was installed to. if a HD was wiped and a fresh install went on, lojack would be toast.

is there any hardware level theft recovery software that would remain even if windows was reinstalled?

Thanks.... MikeC

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