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	Making your laptops traveling fortresses Roberta Bragg 09.25.2002 Rating: -4.25- (out of 5) Digg This!     StumbleUpon     Del.icio.us    [TABLE]

When I was growing up, "locking down the notebook" meant doing your own work and not allowing your friends to copy your homework. We didn't know diddly about locking down a notebook computer; they didn't exist.

Today, people use notebook computers everywhere and for everything. Critical, sensitive corporate and private data goes with them, and it is as vulnerable to attack, theft and destruction as a small child's lunch money when the school bully comes around. And yet even those charged with maintaining notebooks for corporate users st

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Let's you and I change that. Here are 13 things you need to do to lock down laptops.

While some suggestions are extreme -- and may be impossible to follow in some circumstances -- you can painlessly institute many of them on a Windows 2000/XP Professional system. Whether you're worried about your own machine, or you're pulling together a program for thousands of laptops, these steps will ensure better security.

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Roberta Bragg, MCSE, CISSP, MCT, MCP, is a well-known Windows security consultant, columnist and speaker. Her publishing credits include "ISA Training Guide," "MCSE Windows 2000 Network Security Design" and "Windows 2000 Security."

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