Harry Han
Today laptop is almost a requirement in higher education. However it comes as a difficult task keeping them safe. Having a laptop is a convenience to work through higher education however when it gets stolen numerous issues emerge, disrupting both life of higher education students and the security of University.
Students use vast number of data and files within their classes of higher education and these files are essential sources to thrive within tough higher education courses. Laptops are convenient sources of keeping these files organized both within the class and outside the class. But when it comes to losing it, not only student’s life in higher education but also the security of entire school are devastatingly impacted.
According to the article “Increase in Stolen Laptops Endangers Data Security” by Andrea L. Foster, in University of Virginia, due to a stolen laptop, the thieves were able to retrieve up to US$22,000 by hacking into university systems under names of 7,000 employees, students and professors. Clearly, thefts can bring severe impact to University securities but it also influences the lives of the victim of the theft issue.
Stolen laptops not only concerns student with its cost of replacing it but it also disturbs and confuses the student. Due to the stolen laptop, student may find himself difficult to be back on track with his academics as he is missing data and files. Moreover, as Foster states that there is no way to prevent laptops from wandering, which indicates that chances of finding the laptop are pretty low. However, higher education students find the problem difficult to shake it off. Plus replacing the laptop also kills time thus meanwhile students will face numerous inconveniences.
Stolen laptops come as a serious issue to higher education today. Although it may seem like an issue affecting just an individual, it is rather an issue that the Universities must face and work to find a conclusion of prevention.
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