I know that at least one big German chemical company is doing exactly the same for US trips, because they have evidence of industrial espionage attempts against

I know that at least one big German chemical company is doing exactly the same for US trips, because they have evidence of industrial espionage attempts against then. Executives that have to go to any non-European country get a clean laptop, with nothing but the VPN client installed and access is only enabled after the traveler has reached the destination and has called and given a verbal "all good". On return the laptop is not connected to the internal network, but wiped clean.