Home Network and Active Privacy Protection

by Get Stealth Chicago Stealth Security & Home Theatre Systems, Inc

All offices, many shops and now more and more homes have a home network that allows them to connect technological devices that are used every day to each other and to the Internet.

Smartphone’s, tablets, computers (but not only them ... we also think of smart TVs, modern refrigerators or washing machines that can be remotely controlled) contain and store a lot of personal information for us. This is the fruit of the increasingly powerful technology that allows us to do things that were once unimaginable.

PRIVACY RISKS

If on the one hand this represents an advantage as far as comfort is concerned, the flip side of the coin is also to be taken into consideration: you put your privacy at risk.

You're getting used to reading or hearing about risks from ghostly hackers, spam emails, attachments that “in doubt, it's always better not to download" and you're reasonably sure you understand the importance of not clicking on banners that promise eternal youth or do not visit untrustworthy web pages.

The thing that you may not yet have given proper attention to is that the risks can also derive from access to your home security network. Someone could take over your network key and carry out, through your band, illegal operations that undermine the security of your data and slow down your activities.

HOME NETWORK

Speaking of home networks, we refer to mechanisms that allow computers connected to the same home security network to "see each other" and "communicate" with each other. This happens thanks to routers, devices that connect multiple computers.

Our Get Stealth technicians are able to protect your network system by creating programmed ports, differentiated according to use: a branch can communicate with smart TV, one with a computer and one, for example, could be dedicated to guests. You know, the embarrassment that comes at home when a technician arrives and asks you for the wi-fi password to do tests? Sure, you give it to him, but you always remain a bit 'in doubt that your password is, in a moment, passed to a stranger who should not know.

What will you do with your password, the technician who just left your house? In 99% of cases, nothing. Indeed, as soon as he has turned the corner he will have forgotten you and your password. But since "trusting is good, not trusting is better”, wouldn't it be much more practical to give the technician the "guest password"?

He and your passing friends will have a branch of your home network available that they can use occasionally, without putting important data at risk for you.

The term "domestic" it does not refer only to what happens in a private home, since it can also be present in shops, recreational clubs, offices, warehouses...

Router, Modem and Access Point

To connect to the Internet you need a modem but to create a home network there must be a router. It is an object that allows sharing the same connection to multiple computers or IT devices.

A router manages those protocols that are at the base of the creation of a computer network. Ensures that all devices are properly connected and communicate with each other.

Computers and modems no longer pass through routers and modems, but also smart phones, tablets, smart watches and smart TVs. In some more modern homes even appliances can be connected to the home network to be programmed remotely, improving the days.

The router then becomes an access route to personal data and it is of primary importance to arm the communication channels, preventing strangers from taking an interest in your banking operations, viewing photographs and videos you own, or downloading copyrighted material.

Another object that can be part of your home network, helping to improve it, is the access point . It is a device that transmits the wi-fi signal even taking it to those areas where it usually "does not take" .

How many times have you found yourself snorting at home and tendering your arm upwards, searching for a better signal because, for too long, it is not the same in all the rooms?

Access points have different functions, but the one just described is the most common and is called Root Mode . It means it works as a network access point for wireless mobile nodes (computer, Smartphone, tablet ...). Used in this configuration, the access point acts as a central node for sorting information.

It should be emphasized that the creation of a home network or the operations necessary to increase protection can also be carried out on existing systems and also to support the most common modems: those, for instance, that are brought home to you and installed at the time of stipulation of the contract with one of the many telephone operators active in the area.

Find Out If Someone Has Entered Your Home Network

You have decided that the best thing will be to contact, without obligation, our technicians for an inspection and a free estimate but ... do you have the doubt that "the omelets has already been done”?

Are you afraid that someone has already entered your network because you have the bad habit of not even protecting it with a password? This exposes you to very high risks but for now ... do not panic: the easiest way to understand if someone is connected "at the latch" is to go check the address of the router by writing it on the browser, in the address bar.

If you don't find it, know that it is usually 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 but it could also be 192.168.1.254. Now you can discover the devices that are connected and check if they are all owned by you or if there is any infiltrator.

If the idea of putting your hand in motion shakes you, we can reassure you: there are software that perform this activity for you. With just a few clicks they make a report of the active devices on your network and you just have to do the counting and find out who is the intruder.

We hope you don't run into any nasty surprises and we renew your usual invitation: don't delay and always rely on qualified personnel to secure your home security systems in Chicago, your office and, above all, the people you