Personnel Safety and Security Concerns

When it comes to ensuring comprehensive security, organizations must also consider the personal safety of their employees, the security of these employees’ data, and how these two interact. Personal and data risks may occur when employees travel or are in roles that involve them posting on social media. This section will discuss some of these aspects, focusing on some common scenarios with travel, security training and awareness, and social media.

Travel

Modern business travel mostly involves taking a laptop and other mobile devices to locations where they are hard to update, monitor, and secure. Crossing borders in some cases may involve handing these devices over to border guards or law enforcement for inspection and perhaps imaging of the data. Similarly, some locations may involve the traveler having to hand over their social media accounts to law enforcement.

Hence, it makes sense to think in advance about these scenarios...