Typical Travel

We’ve all been traveling and had to deal with airport wifi. Not only can airport wifi be unsecure, but so can your private jet. Typically, this is provided by the avaition company and shared amongst the principal and staff, but also guests. Additionally, usually the security settings are weak to make it easy for all devices to connect. Let’s not forget that satellite connections along can be a vector for easedropping. The problem is that you have highly confidential business and personal conversations occuring on this network. A compromise here can be a direct threat to the principals financial and legal interests.

The best way to handle this is to work in a zero-threat environment. This way you are isolating your devices from the shared network, even at 40,000 feet.

What can you do?

There are a couple ways of accomplishing this. One, you need a great digital security team. They will use tools to manage all of your devices to ensure that you stay anonymous and are protected from the threats auto-magically. If your device or your guests devices are not managed by a digital security task force, then you could use a travel security router. These are not nearly as capable as using your own security network, but they will help protect you or even get you connected to your network. For example, if your entourage is more than two people, then you can share a travel security router for up to 8 connected devices. Even better, if you use both at the same time then that will prevent any network from seeing your device.

The Brass Tacks

Surprising, there are only a few really good travel routers out there and they allow you to setup a connection between the travel router and your home network. This way you are encrypted, and anonymous from the shared network, and you are able to go out your headquarters network connection with the full robust protection of your home network. This is what I would do. This protects everyone connected, but also allows you to separate the principal traffic from your guests as well.

Traveling in remote countries

The best bit with the travel security routers is some models allow you to add a SIM card which of course allows you to easily move around. You just need your security team to ensure that the SIM card added will work in all of the destinations that you travel. Last, but not least, these travel routers will work off from a power bank. They take up very little power to function. So, no special tools needed.

Conclusion

With the right tools and preparation, then you can really simplify the way you protect yourself and your team. After your remote security router is configured and your managing all of your devices from a security console, then there is very little that your security team needs to do in order to keep your digital landscape safe. It’s soo important to ensure that you cover all fronts and trust no network. Not even the one on the jet.

If you found this interesting, then check out our previous article on how to become a ghost when it comes to location sharing.