Folks use laptops for everything these days. Many keep the family financials and corporate secrets on them, them carry them to far away places during business travel and vacations. Once whilst traveling to LA on business, I was setting in an Atlanta restroom stall when someone tried to grab my netbook from under the door. Fortunately, the laptop bag strap was wrapped around my leg and the thief gave up. But had he succeeded, there is no telling what he could have done with the data. Therefore, at a minimum, we recommend doing the following 4 items:

1) Use Strong passwords (UPPERCASE lowercase Numbers and special characters like !@#$%&*? 10-12 characters long)

2) Fingerprint readers

3  Full-disk encryption

4) Theft and loss recovery