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International Travel Increases Risk of Data Loss: Cornell Guidelines Available

Cornell IT@Cornell News story:

International Travel Increases Risk of Data Loss: Cornell Guidelines Available

News story posted Thursday, November 7th 2013 (update to story posted July 13th 2013).

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.

Cornell Guidelines:

Guidelines for International Travel with Technology

If there is some reason that you cannot take a loaner laptop, be advised that it can be extremely time consuming and difficult to determine if a device has been compromised. As such, it’s best to act accordingly—if you didn’t travel with a loaner device, seek help from your local IT support to format and reinstall the operating system and applications upon returning to campus.
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