GEOFENCING FEATURE ADDED BY ABSOLUTE

By D.E.Levine

Geofencing capabilities that enable IT managers to incorporate the physical location of a device into their IT Asset Management strategy have been added to Computrace products by Absolute Software Corp.

End user are alerted when a laptop or mobile device goes beyond a certain perimeter defined on a web-based map.

After the alert, the manager can take appropriate action like deleting data from the device, in order to protect both the device and the data.