NSA Releases New Best Practices for Securing Home Networks


You depend on your home network for binge-watching your favorite shows and ordering the perfect pair of shoes. When it’s time to pay bills or manage your retirement accounts, you likely head online as well. Not to mention that home networks make it possible for you to work from home and for your kids to do schoolwork. If your home network isn’t up and running, then conducting your personal business and staying entertained can become challenging, if not impossible.


Many people think of a cyberattack as something that happens to large companies. However, home networks are increasingly the targets of cyber criminals, who use them as a gateway to corporate networks through remote workers. Since you are a remote worker, your habits and setup at home can actually be the cause of a major corporate breach, which is definitely a career-limiting, not career-enhancing, move.


“In the age of telework, your home network can be used as an access point for nation-state actors and cyber criminals to steal sensitive information,” said Neal Ziring, National Security Agency Cybersecurity Technical Director. “We can minimize this risk by securing our devices and networks and through safe online behavior.”


By taking extra precautions, you can increase the odds that your home network functions each time you need it throughout your day. Recently, the NSA released best practices to help you secure your home network. The guidelines fell into two categories — changes to make to your network and changes to make to your behavior.


Simple Changes Keep Your Network Secure


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