New Tech To Track Laptop Thieves

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Though there are several ways from preventing sensitive information from being stolen from your PC or that of an employee’s- password authentication, restrictive firewall implementation, etc- but what do you do when the computer or notebook is actually stolen? Well, there is a solution, provided by companies like IntelliTrack and Stealth Signal, called tracing, which attempts to obtain the unit’s serial number through the IP address of that unit. A very sound solution, just so long as exploits are closed up in the software.

The way tracer technology works is by identifying a computer’s serial number and recording which IP address is being used, whenever the computer is connected to a network. The information is sent to a tracing company like IntelliTrack, Absolute Software or Stealth Signal — or directly to a company’s I.T. department.

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