Physically securing desktop lab computers

[indieFan]

Have you looked at the other computer labs on campus to see how they handle the cables? I know that the lab that I worked in had some sort of lock that was put on. It drove us nuts when we had to change the monitor connections for the professor's laptop and back, but it definitely prevented any thefts.

If your campus labs don't have anything like that, call ITR for CSUN's College of Engineering and Computer Science and ask what they use. Send me an email (not PM) if you want their phone number.

indieFan

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by indieFan

Have you looked at the other computer labs on campus to see how they handle the cables? I know that the lab that I worked in had some sort of lock that was put on. It drove us nuts when we had to change the monitor connections for the professor's laptop and back, but it definitely prevented any thefts.

If your campus labs don't have anything like that, call ITR for CSUN's College of Engineering and Computer Science and ask what they use. Send me an email (not PM) if you want their phone number.

indieFan

The normal method of securing most computer hardware around here is wetware (read: a responsible human in the lab when people are there, and a locked door when they aren't). Of course, we don't have the manpower or money (or space, really) to put a warm body in the lab 24/7, and history has proven that anything that's locked up around here (even if the key is just at the front desk) rarely gets used.

I will look into the lock, though.

[Rohith Surampudi]

Ok well my school uses the products on the following links to secure CPUs, Monitors, and projectors, they are quite easy to install, but the lockdown cables are a bit on the expensive side to wire an entire lab.

http://www.meritline.com/mngek1-anchor-plate-lock.html
http://www.secure-it.com/shop/index.php/cPath/21_22

i hope that helped

-rohith

[Jon K.]

I was in a computer lab for a class the other day, and while I don't have a picture yet(will take one Tuesday) the cables all went through a hinged piece of metal with two holes in it and then that was wire tied together to make theft of pieces more difficult.