Tom Perrine <[email protected]> writes: > While it is not a company policy, most (if not all) IT staff have > taken to carrying "loaner" laptops when traveling across US borders. > No company or personal data on board, and used via VPN (and/or RDP > over VPN) to access company data in the home office, unless coming > from one of our own trusted remote offices.
It should not be a surprise that there are companies who (have to) assume that crossing a border - any border - means you will be an easier target for espionage and IP theft. In such cases, a generic and sanitized loaner laptop is the ticket. An approved hardware encrypted USB drive (AES-256) can be a requirement for protecting content that must be hand carried. Two factor VPN to get back to the mother ship for all else. The laptop is assumed compromised upon return and is nuked from orbit, i.e., reimaged. It's the only way to be sure. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
