Late last year, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversights and Investigations released its Cybersecurity Strategy report, which starts by observing that current IT strategies aren’t working. It then lays out steps to tighten them up. A small piece of this cybersecurity puzzle is ensuring that employees don’t unwittingly provide entree to the corporate ship when they travel for business while surfing the web on their personal time.
Frequent business travelers today need to travel armed and prepared to protect corporate data from cyberattacks. Typically, corporations provide their roaming workforce with a corporate VPN (Virtual Private Network), which locks down the employee’s connection to company network servers when they are using public wifi, like such as in an airport or hotel room. But companies should also supply their traveling employees with a personal VPN. Both are critical for a “Defense in depth” strategy.