Precautions to Protect Data

Do not keep any personally identifiable information on your laptop. A product such as Identity Finder can find files on your hard drive that may contain personally identifiable information.If the laptop does contain sensitive files that you do NOT need while traveling, keep them at home. Remove them from the hard drive and put them on another system or disk. Make sure you will be able to re access the stored files when you return from your trip. To ensure that the files are really deleted from the laptops hard drive use a proven media sanitizing software tool.