When traveling, treat your laptop like cash. Turn your back for a second and it could disappear. If it is taken, all of your valuable information stored on it gets taken as well.

Here are some helpful reminders from the Federal Trade Commission. Keep these tips in mind when you’re out and about with your laptop: 

Do:

• Treat your laptop like cash.
• Lock your laptop with a security cable.
• Be on guard in airports and hotels.
• Consider an alarm for your laptop.
• Consider carrying your laptop in something less obvious than a laptop case.

Don’t:

• Leave your laptop unattended — even for just a moment.
• Put your laptop on the floor.
• Leave your laptop in the car.
• Keep passwords with your laptop or in its case.