I think you mgiht find that the common assumption that secuirity is overkill is one of the common reasons for identify theft being so prevelant. You can have a reasonably secure home office network that does not put you at risk and is reasonably secure. It is important to think about what you could lose when balancing what you do for security and disaster reoovery.
This sort of thing is never overkill. I used to demonstrate security products from my home "sacrificial network" and watch folks routinely trying to hack my servers, PCs, etc. (amazing the amount of folks who can’t spell administrator) and I’m not just talking wireless also DSL and other broadband technologies.At the end of the day I’d know more about them than they did about me and so did my customers if they were paying attention. Unethical? No they’re on my network and I want to know who they are.
One suggestion on wireless. Most companies will have firmware upgrades to their products which are usually relatively simple to install and will allow WPA2 to be utilized.
I thought it was a good article and should be read especially by those of us still in our I’m too smart to be hacked fantasy land
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I think you mgiht find that the common assumption that secuirity is overkill is one of the common reasons for identify theft being so prevelant. You can have a reasonably secure home office network that does not put you at risk and is reasonably secure. It is important to think about what you could lose when balancing what you do for security and disaster reoovery.
This sort of thing is never overkill. I used to demonstrate security products from my home "sacrificial network" and watch folks routinely trying to hack my servers, PCs, etc. (amazing the amount of folks who can’t spell administrator) and I’m not just talking wireless also DSL and other broadband technologies.At the end of the day I’d know more about them than they did about me and so did my customers if they were paying attention. Unethical? No they’re on my network and I want to know who they are.
One suggestion on wireless. Most companies will have firmware upgrades to their products which are usually relatively simple to install and will allow WPA2 to be utilized.
I thought it was a good article and should be read especially by those of us still in our I’m too smart to be hacked fantasy land
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