A poster of ICT security tips for schools to help schools keep their mobile ICT secure. Includes tips for preventing laptop theft from schools.

1. Tips for preventing ICT theft
Be aware:
Should your premises be broken into, the chance
of a repeat offence increases dramatically. If you
have been a victim of laptop theft, change where
1) Make external ICT technicians present ID
you store your laptops as criminals could break in
again, knowing just where to look. 2) Ensure that all visitors sign in and out
and arrange for someone to accompany
them around the building.
Hide your trolley: Be anonymous:
1) Keep laptop trolleys away from the If you take a laptop home to work on,
windows and never leave their keys lying carry it in an anonymous bag to avoid
around. alerting thieves to its contents.
2) Invest in a secure docking station to
lock your laptop trolley to a wall overnight
Lock it down: Use an alarm:
Choose a secure laptop trolley:
If your school is located in an area It is a good idea to select a
with a high crime rate, or when pupils Laptops and tablets can be protected in a laptop trolley with a motion
are working in open-plan areas, secured, lockable cabinet that can be bolted to sensor alarm to further deter
security cables and lock downs can the wall. This cabinet should be constructed of
thieves.
prevent equipment from being taken reinforced steel, not wood or plastic, and be
whilst it is in use. designed to resist crowbars, cutting
equipment and lock-pickers.
Always encrypt: More than encryption: Use a secure locker:
Always install encryption software onto your Encryption should not be relied If students issue themselves with
Tag your assets upon alone. Laptops data that laptops, you could invest in a
mobile ICT devices. Encryption can
they contain exceeds the laptop charging locker that enables
Apply asset tags or security coding to each laptop and keep protect students by scrambling pupils to access devices via
data to make it difficult for thieves resell value. smartcards which enables you to
asset register up to date. If your equipment is stolen, these
markings will identify the devices to your school, deterring to determine its meaning, often track and monitor individual
thieves from stealing equipment as they will not be able to rendering stolen data useless. laptops whereabouts. Or if
sell it on without being detected.
damaged or lost, who was
accountable for using it last.