There are a number of phishing attacks and reports of stolen laptops, etc. Doug (in early 2006) lost his iPod and thank goodness it didn't have any data on it. So in the interest of corporate security, we're looking at implementing:
- a firmware patch so that you need a password to get a machine started and booted
- implementation of passwords on start up (we are all there anyway)
- implementation of passwords on wake from sleep mode
- implementation of some 'phone home' software where if your machine wakes up in an unknown IP address, it sends an email to a specified email address to let us know where it is should somebody else "borrow" your laptop without you knowing.