10 Don'ts on Your Digital Devices: The Non-Techies Survival Guide to Cyber Security and Privacy

CHAPTER 5

Don’t Do Secure Things from Insecure Places

Location, Location, Location…

Tom is a senior sales associate for Magnatec Inc. (MTec), a large, US-based business-to-business (B2B) electrical parts supplier. He has current ­customers in 42 of 50 states and the potential for customers in all 50. Not ­surprisingly, Tom spends a great deal of his time on the road making sales calls to potential customers and servicing current customers. MTec has assigned him the ­typical road warrior “tools of the trade”—a laptop, tablet, and smartphone. All of Tom’s gear is preconfigured by his corporate IT department. Tom takes advantage of Internet access wherever he happens to find himself: hotel rooms, coffee shops, customer conference rooms, fast-food ...