Sometime ago, a friend shared about how a colleague at her workplace lost a Apple MacBook in broad daylight. It was a little after midday most of the staff were out for lunch. So most desks were left unattended naturally, except for the front office lady. Our laptops and tablets are valuable not just because they represent significant investments, but also because of the sensitive business data and crucial personal information that lives on our devices. As more companies allow their employees to come with their own devices to work via BYOD policies, these same gadgets could be the sources of data breaches. Some laptops can be stolen, and the data exposed to identity thieves.

If the grommet isn’t the right size or on the right spot on your desk, you can always get an attachable anchor that’ll snap between the seams of the partition at your workplace or glues onto a table.Doubt the source? Then about the fact that 86 out of 100 IT professionals have reported that someone in their organization has lost a laptop to theft. With more companies adopting "bring your own device" (BYOD) policies, an employee or contractor's personal laptop could be the source of a data breach. When some laptops were stolen from Coca-Cola in 2013, the company exposed the names and personal information of 74,000 employees and contractors to identity thieves. [[http://www.scmagazine.com/theft-of-unencrypted-laptops-behind-coca-cola-breach-impacting-74000/article/331273/]] Also, more than half of that number also confirms that the thieves accessed sensitive data after taking the laptops. In today’s world of mobile workforces and BYOD trends, guarding against device theft is the first line of defense to save data from falling into the wrong hands. Mobile devices enable workplace flexibility, but that inherent portability also makes them more likely to be stolen.