informationweek.comAn Intel-sponsored study finds that organizations fail to grasp the risk of lost laptops.
Businesses are losing billions of dollars annually as a result of lost and stolen laptop computers, a new study shows.
Representatives from Intel, which sponsored "The Billion Dollar Laptop Study," and the Ponemon Institute, which conducted the study, announced their findings at a media event in San Francisco on Thursday. The 329 organizations surveyed lost more than 86,000 laptops over the course of a year, the study found. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, said that based on these findings and a 2009 survey that put the average cost of lost laptop data at $49,246, the cost to these organizations came to more than $2.1 billion or $6.4 million per organization. "A lot of organizations are incompetent at protecting information assets," said Ponemon.
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