Today I saw the headline, “Energy gets tough on laptop use” in Government Computer News and I was curious to see that the story was about how the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is going to start actually enforcing their security practices by accurately inventorying and tracking their mobile computing devices after having “lost” 1,415 laptops in the past 6 years. The DOE also indicates they are going to start enforcing their security policies and procedures.

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