Risk: Informational
A British company has invented new software which will help try and prevent the rise in laptop crime.
The program, which will be available on licence, links to a control centre. If the laptop is used outside designated areas such as an office or a specific employee's desk, it will take pictures of the surrounding area and sends signals via GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) which tells the centre where the laptop is.
The centre monitors the whereabouts of each registered laptop and if it has been taken out of an assigned area, it will then trigger the destruction of any files.
The company hope that a software program which deletes files when necessary, will help to keep confidential information safe from public exposure and malicious people.