Re: Travel abroad, equipment, etc.

[Roger A Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

FWIW, we were discussing this a few weeks ago.  As an experiment we bought a cheap Android tablet for under a hundred 
bucks, and had it configured and ready to go within 15 minutes.  (mail, skype, VPN)  The idea being we could recommend 
this as an option, and if the tablet goes missing it's not that big a loss.  We did not enable encryption, but it's an 
option.  It's also just a few clicks to reset the device to the factory defaults, so it can be made ready for the next 
user.

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> Subject: [SECURITY] Travel abroad, equipment, etc.
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> "Some universities no longer allow their professors to take laptops to certain
> countries, and that should be a standard practice, said James A. Lewis, a senior
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/education/barrage-of-cyberattacks-
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> How common is this practice in .edu?  Or variants of it, like loaner equipment
> that gets processed before and after travel.
>
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> David Shettler
> Information Security Officer
> College of the Holy Cross
> 508-793-3073