Cybersecurity for Small Networks
A Guide for the Reasonably Paranoid
No Starch Press · Print & ebook · December 6, 2022
A guide to implementing DIY security solutions and readily available technologies to protect home and small-office networks from attack.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers securing home or small-office networks themselves
- Themes
- Small-network cybersecurity, DIY security solutions, Network monitoring
- Genres
- Network Security, Local Area Networks, Viruses & Malware
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A guide to implementing DIY security solutions and readily available technologies to protect home and small-office networks from attack. This book is an easy-to-follow series of tutorials that will lead readers through different facets of protecting household or small-business networks from cyber attacks.
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You’ll learn how to use pfSense to build a firewall, lock down wireless, segment a network into protected zones, configure a VPN (virtual private network) to hide and encrypt network traffic and communications, set up proxies to speed up network performance and hide the source of traffic, block ads, install and configure an antivirus, back up your data securely, and even how to monitor your network for unauthorized activity and alert you to intrusion.
Where it sits
| Network Security | 98% |
|---|---|
| Viruses & Malware | 52% |
| Local Area Networks | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Network Protocols
- Network Security
- Linux Systems
- Authors
- Seth Enoka
- Publisher
- No Starch Press
- Published
- December 6, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Small-network cybersecurity · DIY security solutions · Network monitoring
- Reading lane
- Network Protocols