Re: company laptops and customer networks
There's one potential flaw with this: even some smaller companies are beginning to use network access control that only allows registered devices, either by some kind of agent or by MAC registration and approval from a console, to access their network. Anything else plugged in would just get blocked or put into some kind of quarantine.
Overall, I wouldn't plug my device into anyone else's network: I don't always know what the state of their network security is, and they don't know the state of my laptop either. It's easier to just get a network tester or some kind of continuity tool to check whether there's a signal to the wall jack than to risk plugging an unauthorised device into a customer's network. I had a tech do that on a network with Access Control on it, and it didn't take long for a member of the customer's IT to come looking to track down the device.
For some of my customers that offer me access to their internal wifi, I won't use it without connecting to our company VPN so that I'm not on their network.
There's one potential flaw with this: even some smaller companies are beginning to use network access control that only allows registered devices, either by some kind of agent or by MAC registration and approval from a console, to access their network. Anything else plugged in would just get blocked or put into some kind of quarantine.
Overall, I wouldn't plug my device into anyone else's network: I don't always know what the state of their network security is, and they don't know the state of my laptop either. It's easier to just get a network tester or some kind of continuity tool to check whether there's a signal to the wall jack than to risk plugging an unauthorised device into a customer's network. I had a tech do that on a network with Access Control on it, and it didn't take long for a member of the customer's IT to come looking to track down the device.
For some of my customers that offer me access to their internal wifi, I won't use it without connecting to our company VPN so that I'm not on their network.
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