More Than 630,000 Laptops Lost at Airports Each Year (June 30, 2008)

SANS reports that a study commissioned by Dell reveals the loss of nearly 637,000 laptops at some of the largest and medium-sized U.S. airports every year.

According to the Ponemon Institute, chosen to conduct the survey, laptops are most commonly lost at security checkpoints. The chaos in going through security checkpoints can make it easy for travelers to lose track of their laptops, making it "fertile ground for theft," the FTC said.

Dell is launching a suite of data protection and asset recovery services, including GPS. The data protection services include an ability to remotely delete data data on a hard drive as well as services for recovering data from failed hard drives.

See the complete study for more information.