Every educational institution makes a significant investment in technology.
Most schools, in effect, self-insure, which makes the impact even worse. Besides worrying about lost PCs, educational institutions are concerned about the theft of mice, keyboards, system boards, memory chips and unauthorized tampering with the disk drives, all of which can be protected. The right theft prevention strategy depends on the equipment, the environment, the budget and exposure. Using Compu-Gard Maximum Security enclosures and pads with special keying, Datamation has provided tens of thousands of such devices under this contract. In Other Schools and Universities Columbia University has, for many years, worked security devices into its risk management program, covering equipment losses only if a piece of equipment is secured.