Business Travel - Company Laptop Policy?

[bitchstewie]

I'm posting here vs. the Computing forum because I want answers from normal people who have no actual interest in IT but who do have a job to do whilst perhaps having to meet IT policies set by their company.

Those of you who travel on business, particularly overseas, especially to some of the more dubious parts of the world (China, Russia etc.) - what is your company policy on what IT kit you can take with you and how you use it please?

For example do you just pick up your regular laptop and off you go, are you issued a laptop specifically for the trip, do you take your data with you, do you take nothing with you and use a VPN etc.

Just trying to get a bit of a feel for what other businesses are doing so it would be useful to get any and all feedback

[bitchstewie]

What are you told regards Wi-Fi.

i.e. you're in the Shanghai Hilton and you see a "Free Wi-Fi" network advertised.

[bitchstewie]

uk_vette said:

How can you suggest China is dubious?

Have you been?
How many times?
How long where you there?

vette

China are dodgy as fk to put it mildly.

One example, plenty more out there http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/technology/elect...

We're not in a James Bond industry, just a business looking at our approach and it's easy to go a bit mad when you work in IT and come up with something very secure but totally unworkable for the poor sod who's got to live with it - hence the question.

[bitchstewie]

uk_vette said:

You avoided the questions.

vette

Because the answer would be I haven't been.

I haven't been into outer space either but I still believe the experts who tell me it's a dangerous place.