Is there a way to setup password protection upon connecting phone to computer/itunes in the case of being stolen?

Was wondering if there is an application that would prompt you to enter your apple ID & password onced connected to a computer.  My concern is that if my phone is lost or stolen, although my lock screen is on, a person may still be able to connect it to a computer and sync contacts, apps, music, email, etc... via iTunes.

No.
The Passcode Lock prevents the iPhone from being synced with iTunes on another computer, backing up the iPhone on another computer, importing anything from the iPhone, or accessing anything on the iPhone directly.
This doesn't prevent the iPhone from being restored with iTunes as a new iPhone via placing the iPhone into recovery mode, but access to anything on the iPhone before that time is prevented.

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