Home network security – one perspective

Daily Cup of Tech (one of my favorite blogs) recently posted an article about home network security, and making your home (wireless) network less attractive to casual snoopers, responding to criticism received in a comment to a previous posting. The suggestions he provides aren’t designed to make your network hacker-proof – as even he discusses.

They do, however, help lower your network’s profile in a potential sea of available access points. Good advice he offers: disable SSID broadcast, use encryption, employ standard security measures (like changing administator password) available on your router, etc.

Experts will argue about whether one kind of encryption is superior to another (yes, WPA is better than WEP, etc., etc.), whether disabling SSID broadcast represents any measure of security at all (only nominal), etc., but the bottom line is that any measures you employ to improve your security are better than what you had before. It is, as they say, a step in the right direction. And it might just be enough to discourage a snoop… you never know.