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Re: Recent experience traveling China
From: "Hudson, Edward" <ehudson () CALSTATE EDU>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:55:58 +0000
Tread carefully. We have had experiences with university personnel traveling to China and using “purchased” VPN clients which are malware laden. We tend to encourage taking a loaner device, stripped down to bare essentials and no sensitive data. Also there are potential ITAR issues with encryption. Ed Hudson, CISM Director, Information Security California State University Office of the Chancellor 401 Golden Shore Long Beach, CA 90802 Tel 562-951-8431 ehudson () calstate edu On 3/3/16, 8:40 AM, "The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv on behalf of Emily Harris" <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU on behalf of emharris () VASSAR EDU> wrote:
All: Vassar has about 40 people taking a trip to China and we are attempting to advise them on a number of issues, including maintaining a safe and secure computing posture while abroad. We are a Google school, and as you know, China blocks access to Google applications. I am wondering if anyone on the list has recent experience traveling to China and using their own institutional VPN. An article I read recently indicated that China is cracking down on corporate VPNs and many of them do not work. Can anyone speak to experience in this realm? We are weighing our options for recommendations to these 40+ people. Thank you! -- Emily Harris Interim Information Security Officer, CIS Vassar College 845-437-7221
Current thread:
- Recent experience traveling China Emily Harris (Mar 03)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Eric Weakland (Mar 03)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Hudson, Edward (Mar 03)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Nasir Hakeem (Mar 03)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Shawn Merdinger (Mar 03)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Nasir Hakeem (Mar 03)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Steve Terry (Mar 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Don M. Blumenthal (Mar 03)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Emily Harris (Mar 03)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Valerie Vogel (Mar 08)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Emily Harris (Mar 03)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Don M. Blumenthal (Mar 03)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Rajewski, Jonathan (Mar 04)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Frank Barton (Mar 04)
- Re: Recent experience traveling China Rajewski, Jonathan (Mar 04)