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Borders, customs, hotels, return from mission: what to prepare before, what to manage during, what to clean up after.
Travel is the moment when operational security gets a real test. A border, a hotel, a Wi-Fi network, a transport chain — each is a point where the threat model shifts, and where approximations cost you.
This axis covers pre-departure preparation by threat level, real rights at border crossings by jurisdiction, particularly constraining destinations (China, Russia, Israel, certain Gulf states), the reality of hotel security, and the post-mortem nobody runs on return.
On holiday, you drop every guard at the moment you expose the most: real-time geolocated photos, hotel Wi-Fi, children's devices, empty house announced publicly. The leisure threat model, handled without paranoia.
Business travel is when an organisation is most exposed, and least suspicious. Real attack vectors, documented cases, and proportionate preparation for executives and teams travelling with valuable information.
What you do when you come back from a high-risk trip: device audit, credential rotation, mission report.
The exhaustive preparation checklist before a business trip, calibrated by destination country and profile.
The real compromise vectors in a hotel: Wi-Fi, safes, locks, staff, a room left alone.
What Chinese law imposes, what happens in practice, and the minimum hardware preparation for a business trip.
Your real rights, what customs can actually do, and practical preparation to minimise exposure without breaking the law.