Key findings of the BSI Computer Theft Survey:
Almost half (47.1%) of the survey respondents have been the victim of computer theft in the last 12 months.
Over three quarters (76.3%) of respondent companies had between 1 and 9 computers stolen in the last 12 months; more than 1 in 10 (11.3%) respondent companies had more than 25 computers stolen in the last 12 months.
98.5% of survey respondents that experienced computer theft report the thief was never caught.
83.4% of respondents report the estimated value of proprietary data on their stolen computing device at $25,000 or less; 14.6% estimated the value at $1,000.000 or more and 2% estimated the value at more than $10,000,000.
52.9% of respondents that experienced computer theft had multiple incidences of theft in the last 12 months.
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51.1% of respondents report other items were stolen at the time of the computer theft, with removable media (including spare disks, stored files on CDs, removable media and spare hard drives) accounting for 31.5 % of the additional stolen items.
Average total replacement cost of stolen computing devices was $34,408.21 per device.
78% of respondent organizations reported that PCs accounted for the bulk of the stolen machines and Macs accounted for 22.6% of all stolen machines.
89% of respondents did not encrypt the proprietary data on their stolen computing device.
Reference:
http://www.pcphonehome.com/2004results.html
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