Re: Travel abroad, equipment, etc.

["Lorenz, Eva" <evalorenz () UNC EDU>]

Concerns from departments have become stronger lately and demands for a university policy and memo to faculty are being 
requested, but we do not have a policy (yet) to forbid the travel with laptops. 

I am probably more paranoid than most having grown up in (what used to be West) Germany and experiencing the enforced 
trip to East Berlin as part of high school. That trip automatically excluded a few of my classmates from traveling 
through East Germany because their dads were in the military. That being said, I am surprised anyone is taking a work 
laptop with anything more than a presentation to a foreign country like China. 

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of 
Shettler, David
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:43 PM
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Subject: [SECURITY] Travel abroad, equipment, etc.

"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 fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy group in 
Washington..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/education/barrage-of-cyberattacks-challenges-campus-culture.html?_r=0

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