The Cybersecurity Checklist Most Travellers Ignore — Until It's Too Late
You lock your hotel room door without thinking about it. You keep your passport in the hotel safe. You watch your luggage at the airport. Physical security while travelling is instinct for most people. Digital security? Almost nobody thinks about it — until their bank account is drained from a hotel lobby in Cancún, or their company email is compromised from a coffee shop in London, or their identity is stolen through a charging station at an airport gate they used for eleven minutes. I've spent years managing IT security operations for a financial institution and consulting with small and mid-size businesses on their security posture. The attacks I see most often don't start with sophisticated hacking. They start with someone connecting to the wrong Wi-Fi network, charging their phone in the wrong port, or logging into a sensitive account on a device they didn't bother to secure before leaving home. Travel cybersecurity isn't complicated. But it does require preparatio...
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