Theft management system and method

A system comprising:

• a theft management server to detect a theft of a computing device in response to an OOB notification, wherein the theft management server is to transmit a theft alert message to a wireless module of the computing device via a message service gateway.

An apparatus comprising:

• a management unit to receive a lock message from a wireless network interface over a sideband bus and to cause one or more components of a computing device to become disabled,
• wherein the lock message is to be received from a remote server and wherein the remote server is to generate the lock message in response to an OOB message indicative of theft of the computing device.

A computer-readable medium comprising one or more instructions that when executed on a processor configure the processor to perform one or more operations to:

• receive an out-of-band (OOB) notification indicative of theft of a computing device;
• transmit a theft message representative of the theft to the computing device via a wireless wide area network, wherein at least one component of the computing device is to be disabled in response to receipt of the theft message.