I strongly agree and my entire laptop is encrypted.
If this policy you suggest is taken only a little bit too zealously,
your
company will mandate encrypting your work files,
If your company's goal is to prevent corporate espionage
then this is a rather shortsighted way to do it. If an employee
with such an encrypted laptop is sitting in front of the
immigration police who ask him for the encryption passwords
then he would be stupid to refuse to divulge it.
A wiser move would be to require all confidential documents
to be encrypted and stored on a server. Before travelling
such documents should be deleted from the laptop. On reaching
the destination, the documents should be retrieved from the
server. This way, if a laptop is lost, stolen, or in the hands
of some police agency in some country or other, there is no
corporate confidential information on it.
And if there is serious risk associated with the confidential
information, whether monetary risk or legal risk associated
with making information public, then this *TRAVEL* rule should
apply to the daily commute as well.
After all, some of you may have noticed this thing called
"the Internet" which makes it easy to move around encrypted
files to any part of the world where a laptop is likely to
travel to.
--Michael Dillon
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