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Is your laptop protected?
We live in a world where everyone,
everything, everywhere is both connected
and mobile and this combination of hyper
connectivity and continuous mobility
brings significant business benefits but
they also bring significant business and
personal risks.
The risks lie in breaching legal
requirements and regulatory compliance.
These are serious matters, affecting a
company’s suppliers, clients, employees,
investors, partners and regulators. The
impact on reputation can be catastrophic
as an increasing number of organisations,
companies and their key staff and officers
have found to their cost.
It’s an issue which affects business
executives who are solely based in one
country, but it’s an even bigger concern
for executives who travel overseas. It’s
potentially a major problem if a breach
results in the confiscation of a company
owned and issued laptop.
Most jurisdictions now have the right
to inspect laptops at customs and
immigration. What they object to
varies from country to country. Some
might object to images which wouldn’t
necessarily be an issue in the home
market, some might object to copyright
infringement (music and video) whilst
others might object to evidence of online
gambling.
Travelling executives may not even
know that inappropriate material, for
the country they are about to enter, has
found its way onto the machine they are
carrying.
Accredited Lloyd’s insurance broker,
Kinetic, has facilitated a unique insurance
that covers the replacement cost of
corporate laptops confiscated by customs
or law enforcement agencies, world
wide. The policy is delivered as part
of the licence of a unique cyber risk
discovery and reporting tool developed
by international software house,
Guardware – known as the File
Audit Facility (FAF) which
“sanitises” Windows based
laptops, allowing the
removal of material which
could cause significant problems if
a company owned laptop is inspected or
seized by law enforcement agencies or
customs and immigration in jurisdictions
with a known aversion to graphic images,
unlicensed software, online gambling or
illegally copied music and video files.
This is one of a range of innovative
products to be released in 2009 under
Kinetic’s e-safe insurance brand. For more
information, go to
www.esafeinsurance.co.uk
Your specialist broker
with access to Lloyd’s.
We handle a wide range of classes of business
but specialise in non-traditional, hard to place,
E-commerce, speciality schemes and
contingency risks.
www.kineticbrokers.com
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7283 9142
Email: info@kineticbrokers.com
For Australian enquiries, contact: +61 (0)4 0635 7314
Kinetic Insurance Brokers Ltd.
Seventh Floor 50 Fenchurch Street
London, EC3M 3JY
Kinetic Insurance Brokers Ltd. is registered in England No. 1270474