Definition of Home Office
The modern concept of Small Office and Home Office or SoHo, or Small or Home Office or Single Office/Home Office deals with the category of business which can be from 1 to 10 workers. Larger business enterprises, one notch up the size scale, are often categorized as a small business. When a company reaches 100 or more employees, it is often referred to a Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.
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Home Office
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Filtering Routers in a Small Office/Home Office with a Mixed OS Environment
In this paper I will explore one layer of a multi-layered defense of the internal network of a SOHO user, how to configure the packet filtering capability of a cable or digital subscriber line (DSL) router for a mixed OS network. With the filter set limitations of most cable/DSL routers, a normal network security filter set must be reevaluated to determine the most important services that must be blocked. A reevaluation must also be done in a mixed OS environment since a normal network security filter set for a homogeneous network will generally not be sufficiently for a different OS. This paper is an extension of the work of Rick Thompson and Patrick Harris.
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Layers of Defense for the Small Office and Home Network
With the information age in full swing and the popularity of broadband technology increasing, home users as well as small offices are now connected to the Internet 24 hours a day via cable or DSL, and the need for securing your small office or home network is essential. Believe it or not the Internet is a battleground for information warfare and if not properly prepared you may be an unwilling participant and/or victim. Many Internet threats exist in the form of Attackers, Trojan horse programs, Viruses, Worms, and other malicious code. This year malicious activity has increased significantly and as a result, so has the compromise of home computers. Intruders are targeting home users; especially those connected with cable/DSL connections available 24 hours a day, mainly for use in the attacks of other computers on the Internet.
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Building a Secure Home Network
Is your computer/network secure? Whether a person has one computer or a dozen connected to the Internet, the dangers are the same. An unsecured computer connected to the Internet is much like leaving your front door wide open when you go on vacation. The temptation is too much for curiosity seekers, and hackers looking for open doors. Even placing locks on your door is not enough, given the increased dangers of viruses and worms.
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ZoneAlarm - A Free Solution for Home Security
Security for home computers is becoming more of a necessity rather than a luxury. Home users need to secure their PC's and connections to the Internet to ensure that their data is safe and secure at all times. This is where ZoneAlarm comes in. ZoneAlarm is a personal firewall that is designed to guard a home user's PC against the threat of hackers and data thieves by allowing a user to control their computer's Internet traffic and the way applications access the Internet. ZoneAlarm is designed to protect DSL and/or cable connected PCs, and is also an invaluable tool for those with dial-up connections. After all, any computer connected to the Internet is at risk.
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Defense in Depth and the Home User: Securing the Home PC
This document is written with the home computer user as the target audience. Its purpose is to make the home computer user aware of the risks of using an unsecured computer, and to provide a guide in how to secure the home computer by applying various layers of defense to their system. Part 1 will discuss the need for defense in depth at home. Part 2 will serve as a guide to securing the home computer and following safe computing practices.
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Homeland Security Starts at Home - Security for the Home Computer User
This paper is intended to educate the average home computer user who uses the Internet but is not a computer expert. The content is presented in an easy to read format that is not overly technical or filled with computer jargon. Rather than being a complete and comprehensive "how to" for home security, the material presented in this paper will give you an introduction to the topic of home security and outline what steps you need to take to start securing your home computer.
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Understanding & Securing Home Windows Networks
My goal is to present home computing novices a white paper to understanding today's Internet Service Providers (ISP) offerings and methods to which you can secure your home Microsoft windows networking environment as effective as possible. Lets clearly understand that there isn't anyway to completely secure any environment from all hackers, unless you have the resources to secure your network as tightly as the Pentagon's classified network is reported to be. Obviously I not attempting to say that any home network will ever be as secure as the Pentagon's classified networks but I am going point out methods, that, if followed will provide your home network with a more secured environment than it would be straight out-of-the-box as most home networks are setup and maintained today.
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Best Computer Security Practices for Home, Home Office, Small Business, and Telecommuters
Nimda, SirCam, CodeRed, SubSeven and dozens of other backdoors, Kak, SpyWare, DDos attacks affecting even the largest of web sites, Social Engineering, default operating system security holes, and application security holes, and many others should cause a wide range of emotional reaction to over 94 million people who use the Internet at home1. Unfortunately, for all of us, it does not necessarily mean that they are proactively managing their computers. This only makes the Internet and Computer Security for those who do proactively manage their computers and computer networks more critical and less secure. There is a balancing act to balance computer security with usability but it is becoming more important that everyone become more secure.
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More Secure at home Using Linux
I invested in a new PC at home and wanted to get a faster connection, than the current isdn setup I have today. Since I am starting to work with security I also wanted to find a good solution to protect the data I have. I have not decided what type of connection I will get, but it will be cable, adsl or wireless, so I have to make a flexible solution. It is my intent to stay connected to the Internet 24x7. I could have used one of the personal firewalls for Windows, but I feel more comfortable with a less graphical environment, where I have more control over what is happening. It forces me to know more about how things are interconnected. The best part of it, it's more fun. At least I thought so.
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Home User's PC Security: Threats To Windows Users and Countermeasures To Defend Against These Threats
The objective of this paper is to alert home users of the growing number of threats to home PCs and to provide proper countermeasures against these threats. Eventually, the ultimate goal is to minimize security incidents attributed to these threats with proper countermeasures. This paper is focused to address home users using Windows operating system, i.e. Windows 95 and Windows 98. Based on my studies and comparisons of the different operating systems used by home users, many security incidents, such as worms transmitted via emails, flaws in file sharing affect home PCs running on Windows operating system compared to any other operating systems. CERT Advisory CA-2001-20 has reported of over 23 000 machines had been infected with the W32/Leaves worm, discovered in July 2001, which targets home users running on Windows operating system.
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