Originally Posted by
thebakaronis
3. If you're traveling in a country that's known to snoop internet traffic (and we all know at least a few of them), you should use a VPN. In fact, if you're traveling on business to some of these countries, your company SHOULD mandate the use of a VPN. The risk to IP loss/theft is real and several companies have suffered because of this.
Just on this one point, my company requires a VPN with two-factor authentication for all travel anywhere, and also has a list of countries where the government actively engages in industrial espionage. For travel to those countries, it is prohibited to bring any company-provided equipment and strongly discouraged to bring any personal devices. (Including laptops, cell phones, etc.) The company provides special-use burner devices. For travel to countries on the list, we must leave our devices at home/office and get burner devices from IT. On return, the devices are wiped top to bottom. including firmware.