In the first article of this two-part series, I looked at physical protection of laptop computers outside the office. Today we'll review fundamentals of protecting data and data communications. This pair of articles is designed to be useful in security-awareness training for employees who take corporate laptop computers out of the office.
All computers today include a BIOS password that is stored in a special semi-permanent memory call CMOS registers. Without the password, it may be difficult to start your computer; however, criminals and ordinary technicians know simple methods for resetting the CMOS registers.

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