Imagine your laptop gets stolen. Wouldn’t it be great to remotely spy on the machine and get it back?

Clair Fleener, chief executive of IT outsourcer InertLogic, got that chance after a laptop belonging to a customer was stolen.

Fleener was instrumental in the investigation that led to the recovery of the laptop, monitoring the activities of the laptop user for two weeks using remote software and sharing the information with law enforcement in Omaha, Neb.

The story starts back in mid-May, right around Mother’s Day, Fleener recounted this week. Someone broke into the car of an employee working for an InertLogic customer and stole the laptop, which had work and personal information on it. Continue Reading »