Basic Travel Security Revisited

The purpose of this paper is to survey and expand on the techniques put forth by other authors (1,2,3) to keep laptops 'safe' while they are outside the protection afforded by a properly configured and maintained network. It is not what security professionals do when they travel because simply put they should know better rather it is what employees do when they travel. Furthermore if traveling employees are informed of security procedures in terms that they can understand and independently implement then they should see that they have a stake in the fate of the laptop they carry. Ultimately users are going to have to answer to federal or state authorities alone whether or not they comply with security procedures or not. When this process has come full circle users would be more willing to comply with other more technical procedures that they may not understand.