Secured Equipment

• Secured equipment. Devices should be locked down to prevent them

from being stolen. One employee’s hard drive could contain all of

your customer information, so it is essential that it be secured.

• Environmental monitoring. An organization’s servers and other high‐

value equipment should always be kept in a room that is monitored

for temperature, humidity, and airflow. The risk of a server failure

rises when these factors go out of a specified range.

• Employee training. One of the most common ways thieves steal

corporate information is to steal employee laptops while employees

are traveling. Employees should be trained to secure their equipment

whenever they are away from the office.