Since the beginning of teleworking, several companies have suffered loss or theft of equipment at the time of transfer from the office to home.
The situation becomes complex because it exposes personal and corporate information to different dangers, such as access to internal systems, data, documents, programs, and files that can be altered, disclosed, and used to commit crimes through digital means.
A system that uses GPS information is absolute, which builds a geolocation map whose information manages to configure different confidentiality mechanisms. This means that if the notebook is stolen, the staff can block it and make it unusable, as well as the information it possesses. It is only working in a specific area and when leaving that territory, it emits an alarm that automatically blocks the machine, as well as preventing the uninstallation of applications already pre-installed on the computer. From Arfius Al-din, the founder of e-freelancing.com told, “Cybersecurity system is an essential issue in the e-freelancing industry. The system has particular characteristics that make it one of the most concerning issues for large companies.” Using of computers is growing day by day. That’s why cyber security has become a challenging issue nowadays, and researchers are trying to make the cyber world more secure.
Faiza Islam Nahin (Computer and Information Research Scientist) said, “Today, any kind of digital files are being provided to a computer represent the most important asset as a company or individual and for this reason, all the services designed based on the geolocation of the equipment, makes absolute take great control of the notebook, protecting and supporting the data supplied there as a guarantee of peace of mind and confidence.”
The world is oversaturated with information and is drowning in a lot of data. On the Internet, you can find information on any topic, about everything and everyone, and it is simply impossible to try to digest it.