When working from home, individuals will need to connect to their home networks which are more vulnerable to cyber-threats. Home networks lack multi-layered security measures, enjoyed in the office environment. Even with anti-virus and anti-malware software installed, the home wifi is exposed to the world.
Attackers could exploit one of the many devices you have attached to your home wifi. Most of us have a wifi printer, an Amazon Echo or a Google Home, even wifi connected cameras and these wifi devices have vulnerabilities which a hacker could use.
One of these devices could be transformed into a Rogue Access Point or an Evil Twin. This changed device emulates your home router and captures the traffic moving around your network, which gives the attacker more information to get access to your corporate laptop, tablet or phone.
Most businesses that allow their employees to work from home insist on the use of the corporate VPN, which creates an encrypted tunnel between your corporate tablet or laptop and the company’s network. This is ideal for protecting the communication link and any data exchanged while the data is in transit. When you download a file or document to your corporate device it then becomes data at rest and is far more prone to illegal access by would-be attackers.
Cybersecurity is always the combination of people, policies, processes and technologies to protect its infrastructure, data and devices. VPN, Anti Malware, Firewall etc. are just a part of the solution, and of course we always recommend backing up your data, but who is securing the home wifi network?
So, what is the solution? Should you stop using the WiFi?
What you really need is a tool that lets you access your home wireless network securely, monitors the traffic to proactively keep you safe and allows corporate IT to help in the case of an incident.
This solution should be self-provisioned as you do not want to share your home network name (SSID) and logon credentials even with corporate IT staff.
What WifiWall’s Dome for Home offers is protection from cyber-attacks whilst working on your home network by monitoring the traffic over the network, identifying attacks and reporting them to corporate IT thus ensuring your data is safe.