A Traveler’s Guide to Cybersecurity

This Q&A with FortiGuard Labs’ Jonas Walker provides travel-focused cyber hygiene guidance, emphasizing timely patching, cautious app installation and USB use, strong authentication via password managers, device locking and encryption, and least-privilege enforcement. It advises avoiding public Wi‑Fi when possible in favor of personal hotspots, refraining from sensitive activities on public networks, and being wary of social logins, social engineering scams, and malicious QR codes. Organizations are encouraged to enforce updates, monitor anomalous endpoint behavior, maintain hardware/software inventories, and prepare incident response plans to reduce risk when employees travel.