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In preparation for your international travel, after your travel request has been approved, S&T IT Security would like to provide you assistance in protecting your data and computer while you are away from campus.
Protecting your data (e.g., research, intellectual property (IP), university data) while traveling is the most important preparation you can do. Your data is too important to want it compromised. You have worked hard to produce sensitive data that is important to the university and to achieve your goals. A compromise can impact future research opportunities for you and the University.
Questions:
Is it necessary to take data on your trip?
If you can avoid it, don’t take any data with you. This option presents the lowest level risk of data compromise.
If you cannot avoid it, we recommend that the data you take only be publicly available data and be stored on an encrypted thumb drive.
If you need to take data with you that is not public but also not tied to an export controlled or CUI related project, take your data on an encrypted drive, then leave the computer at home.
If you need to take data tied to an export controlled or CUI related project, please reference the Technical Control Plan (TCP) of your project or the terms of your export control agreement.
Do you need to take an S&T computer on your trip?
If yes, do you want to take a loaner or to take your S&T managed computer?
If S&T managed computer, what is the name of the S&T managed computer?
Are you taking a personal computer, or personal devices with data storage on your trip?
If yes, you are required to not store campus data on personal devices beyond data stored in communication tools (https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/is/infosec/sections-mobile).
The need for the cybersecurity process for international travel is to:
Protect university data and research during the travel.
Protect Intellectual Property (IP), proposals, instructor materials, etc.
Protect the campus community network and computers upon a traveler's return to campus.
Please review the UM System Information Security Travel Standard, https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/is/infosec/standards-travel
The following three technology categories for your trip are used to make computer and data preparations before you depart on your trip.
Traveler is not on an export controlled or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) project and is not going to a Travel Advisory Level 3 or Level 4 country as defined by the US Department of State. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/
Traveler is going to a Travel Advisory Level 3 or Level 4 country as defined by the US Department of State. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/
Traveler is on an export-controlled or Controlled Unclassified Information project and going to any country with a travel advisory of Level 1 through Level 4.