Conclusion
I believe the completed
project was a smashing success. It raised awareness and educated the typical
small to medium sized network user of the risks and the importance of taking
steps to mitigate those risks. A surprise to me was that the typical home
network was found to be quite a bit more secure than the SMB… but really this
did make sense. The reason has to do with the attack surface, especially if the
SMB has servers exposed to the internet such as a webserver and so on. Still
with the IoT bringing more items online and being administrated remotely the
potential for vulnerabilities does increase in the home network. I have proven
that there are open source solutions out there that given the right expertise
will be able to help mitigate these risks substantially at an affordable price.
Every step you take to further secure your network will facilitate those with
ill intent to keep moving along to what is termed as “lower hanging fruit”, a
network that will take less time and effort to compromise. Please watch my
blogroll for further updates to this project and to be informed of other
security concerns that evolve and the tools and solutions available to mitigate
risk and vulnerability of the small to medium sized network.
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