Synology’s essential tips to elevate your smart home network security to mitigate unseen risks.
Synology’s essential tips to elevate your smart home network security to mitigate unseen risks.
With the rise of smart devices, households face increasing risks such as cyberattacks and data vulnerabilities. Many IoT devices lack proper updates or lose support over time, exposing them to threats like hijacking, botnet integration, or lateral movement attacks that compromise entire networks. Proactive steps like network segmentation are essential to protect home networks and connected devices.
Introducing Network Segmentation
A proactive approach to network security is essential. Separating internet-connected devices into distinct networks, such as primary home and IoT networks, is a recommended preventative measure. For some users, establishing guest networks may also be beneficial. Synology Routers simplify the creation of VLANs (virtual local area networks), making it easy to enhance security and manage network segmentation through SRM.
Simply creating these VLANs can significantly increase the security of your network.
Learn more about Synology’s Network Segmentation.
Home Network
The default primary network accommodates most household devices, including laptops, tablets, smartphones, smart TVs, smart home hubs, and smart speakers. While smart IoT devices often receive regular security updates and can remain on the primary network, they can also be moved to an IoT network with selective access from the main network.
Safe Access’s main dashboard provides a bird’s-eye-view of your network use
Synology SRM enhances network security with Safe Access, a web filtering package that leverages Google Safe Browsing and external databases to block malicious domains, phishing sites, and potentially harmful applications. Additionally, Safe Access includes advanced parental controls at no extra cost, offering features like internet time limits, content filters, usage monitoring, and customizable policies for individual devices.
Another security-focused package available in SRM, Threat Prevention, inspects incoming and outgoing packets (internet traffic) and drops them if they are malicious.
Learn more about Safe Access and Threat Protection.
IoT Network
Synology SRM provides tools to enhance IoT security, including network isolation and one-way firewall rules. These rules can restrict IoT devices, such as IP cameras, to only respond to connections initiated by trusted devices like a NAS, minimizing the risk of cross-network contamination.
Additionally, Synology‘s Threat Prevention technology, powered by an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), strengthens home and IoT network defences. This enterprise-grade solution alerts users to potential device compromises, enabling timely protective actions.
Guest Network Security
Guest networks are an essential precaution to protect your home network from potential malware on visitors’ devices. To avoid drawing attention to the network, it’s recommended to choose a subtle SSID name instead of labelling it as a “guest” network.
Synology Routers simplify the setup of guest networks with features like automatic password rotation and customizable landing portals. These advanced options ensure a secure, professional, and seamless experience for both hosts and guests. Synology Routers have all the tools you need to ensure safer and more secure internet, with built-in software that works behind the scenes.
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