Rationale
So with all the various
options to choose from, I proposed to not only educate those who setup and use
a small to medium size network but to provide an affordable model of protection
for these same networks that addresses the risks within and without.
This education work is
critical since we are ever evolving towards a continually connected state of
everything. You’ve heard of the internet of things. What is it? It’s a concept
leading to a state of connectivity to everything. A state that also requires
protection against those who would use that connectivity for ulterior
advantage.
Notice a most recent of
security exploits found:
SEC Consult Vulnerability
Lab discovered a flaw found to affect the products of up to 26 vendors. The
details of the flaw are well explained in the article but the nature of the
vulnerability speaks to the bigger problem.
This article states:
"Here we have
another case that shows the sad state of embedded systems security," the
SEC Consult blog reads, "Because the same vendors are building the IoT
devices of tomorrow, we will see a lot of this in the future." – Tamarov,
Maxim(2015). Retrieved from http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/4500246976/NetUSB-router-vulnerability-puts-devices-in-jeopardy?track=NL-1820&ad=900884&src=900884
This is a statement worth
remembering if you care about the security of your network no matter how small,
both now and tomorrow.
What other concerns are
there? The next incident report, one of many available will help to make this
rivetingly clear:
‘Lying on his family room
floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and
"pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo
homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning
wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents.
That new wireless router.
He'd gotten fed up trying to set a password. Someone must have used his
Internet connection, he thought.
"We know who you
are! You downloaded thousands of images at 11:30 last night," the man's
lawyer, Barry Covert, recounted the agents saying. They referred to a screen
name, "Doldrum."
"No, I didn't,"
he insisted. "Somebody else could have but I didn't do anything like
that."
"You're a creep ...
just admit it," they said.
Law enforcement officials
say the case is a cautionary tale. Their advice: Password-protect your wireless
router.’ – Associated Press (2011). Retrieved from http://www.cbsnews.com/news/unprotected-wi-fi-getting-owners-in-trouble/
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