Securing Your Wireless Network
There are always more people to choose to work from home as never before. The benefits of this are many, including prevention of morning and evening hours, as far as spending time with your children and other important, and do everything on your own time. Although the pitfalls are many, which I recall it is to concentrate in this article is that the establishment of a secure wireless network for business applications from home. It is now somewhere out there, there is someone who expects a receiver on a support person ignorant network Local Area Network. Their hope is to draw some sensitive information that might identity theft and cases of theft of proprietary information.
Most owners of companies are not technically inclined, though Power-User, in general, the security settings is not one of the first things that the fight they want in their daily activities. This makes most wireless LANs a major objective for the information of predators.
Here are some general guidelines to follow when setting up your wireless network. Even if they can vary between suppliers, the main assertion is more or less the same:
1 The installation of Wireless Access Router / point of a drahtgebundenes client.
2 Always change the position of your password to something difficult to guess for somebody.
3 Turn 128-bit Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP) encryption of your access point and network card. From time to time, changing the WEP key entries. If your hardware does not support a minimum 128-bit WEP encryption, then they can this time to replace these dinosaurs. WEP is only a minimum security precautionary measure, which is never better than none.
4 Change the SSID factory settings on access / router show changing on a string difficult to guess. Start your computer, a connection to a configured SSID enabled by default.
5 The installation program of your access point not on the SSID broadcast, if any.
6 Internet anonymously block requests and ping.
7 P2P links must be disabled.
8 Activate the MAC filtering.
9 turn on the firewall on the network router / gateway to the DMZ disabled. Activate the firewall for each customer’s computer network.
Last 10 days routers and access point as updates are available firmware.
11 Make sure the router is hidden physical, so that a person may be random is not reset the settings.
12 Place the router physically close to the centre of the institution, contrary to close windows to prevent further outside the reception of signals.
These and other parameters are pooled prevent unwanted intrusions on your personal data.