With the number of safeguards built into most of today’s computers, there’s no excuse for not protecting your laptop—and your company’s data. It may take a stolen or misplaced laptop for you to realize how easy it is for your company’s data to fall into the wrong hands when you travel. There really is no excuse for this, given the number of protective measures built into most computers these days. The key, of course, is to use these tools before an incident happens.

There are several ways to make your laptop more secure and I discuss them in my story in Baseline magazine this week.