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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A 6 - Layer Defense for an IT Professional's Home Network
Security is becoming a major concern for the I.T. professional, even at home. An I.T. professional is far more likely than a casual PC user to have or to need a high-speed connection to the Internet. For most I.T. professionals this means that their home network is connected via DSL or Cable Modem to the Internet. Unfortunately home systems with high-speed, "always-on" connections are becoming the targets of choice for many hackers. Home systems with high-speed connections are often poorly protected, and still provide excellent "middle" systems to use as launching points for attacks on other systems.
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Defense in Depth on the Home Front
The home Internet user is a target for intruders. The key question facing home Internet users is how they can securely access the Internet without sacrificing the required level of usability. After all if the security measures are too severe then use of the Internet will be very frustrating and either the Internet will not be accessed or more likely, the security measures will be circumvented or ignored to increase usability. This paper sets out a defense in depth approach to meet the security needs of the Windows-based home Internet user while maintaining usability. The four layers of defense identified and discussed are: network access; the operating system; user applications; and data. The most important layer of the defended area is the user's data, while the most neglected component is the personal firewall that operates at the network access layer.
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The Consumer Desktop - The Weak Link in Internet Security and Why ISP's Are Uniquely Positioned to Help
The growing community of consumer desktops with "always-on" Internet connections provides attackers with a large source of potential drones. Securing the consumer desktop and choking off this source of drones is one of several ways to reduce the occurrence of DDoS attacks. This paper demonstrates why consumer desktops are particularly vulnerable to compromise, what options are available today to protect the consumer desktop and why Internet Service Providers (ISP's) are particularly well positioned to improve the security of consumer desktops.
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Home Computer Security Patch Options For Corporate Security Managers.
For the purposes of this paper, I'm interested in people who use their home computers to connect to a corporate LAN via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel over a residential broadband Internet connection. The principles discussed will apply to any remotely connected user allowed to access protected systems behind a firewall, but to keep the paper concise we'll focus on residential home-based VPN users. Users connecting through dial-up modems are being excluded from this paper because the bandwidth available to them while connected make remote patching impractical. Furthermore, reduction in available dialup bandwidth would seriously hamper users' ability to perform any of their intended tasks.
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Protection of Customer Data For Home Business
This report will be limited to the Microsoft Windows systems. All examples used will be on Windows XP. You can assume the information provided will address other Windows systems unless otherwise noted. This report is broken into three parts. The first part Internet Access deals with options to access the Internet. The second part deals with protecting your system and personal data files from remote electronic access. The second part consists of the three sections Personal Firewalls, Antivirus Software, and Windows Security Updates. The third part deals with protecting your system and personal data files from physical hands-on access and recovery procedures for lost customer data files. The third part consists of the three sections Securing Windows XP, Encryption, and Data Recovery.
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Securing the Broadband Network
"Broadband" describes a medium that can carry signals from multiple independent network carriers on a single coaxial or fiber optic cable by establishing different bandwidth channel. Broadband in the general term also referred to high-speed network connections. In this context, Internet connections via cable modem and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) are frequently referred to as broadband Internet connections. Most current dial-up modems can support a bandwidth of 56 kbps (thousand bits per second). There is no set bandwidth threshold required for a connection to be referred to as "broadband", but it is typical for connections in excess of 1 Megabit-per-second (Mbps) to be so named.
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SOHO Firewall Savvy
A firewall for a SOHO (Small Office Home Office) is the first line of defense and plays an important role in an overall security strategy. Because a SOHO has limited resources, the firewall product they implement must be relatively easy to use and maintain, and be cost-effective. This paper will attempt to provide some guidelines for choosing, installing and configuring a firewall for a small office. Specifically it will do the following: First, define a firewall and explain why a small office needs one. Second, provide a checklist of evaluation criteria for selecting a firewall and explain their importance. Third, explain the implementation and maintenance of a firewall based on a real world example. In addition, this paper will explain the various features of what a firewall can do and why it is essential.
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Getting the Most Security out of the Linksys Cable/DSL Router
The FCC reports that more than 7.1 million lines connected homes and businesses to the Internet in 2000, with DSL enjoying a whopping 435 percent rise in subscriptions over the previous year.1 With statistics like this, it is no wonder security is such a hot topic. A common form of security implemented in small business and home networking environments is the use of cable/DSL routers. Providing extra security at a minimal cost with little expertise to setup and maintain makes these low-end routers very attractive to the general public.
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Sniffing A Cable Modem Network: Possible or Myth?
There are a growing number of warnings from various sources regarding the security threats associated with cable modems. This paper focuses primarily on the threat of malicious users sniffing on a cable modem network. Most of these warnings about sniffing cable modem networks emphasize the fact that the physical media employed by the cable modem network is a shared medium. I contend that these warnings are unfounded. In order to substantiate my claim that network sniffing on a cable modem network is a negligible threat, I will cover some basic details on network sniffing and cable modem networks. Once the reader has a basic foundation of these two topics, a discussion of their technological relationship will be covered. This discussion will demonstrate the possibilities of network sniffing on a cable modem network.
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Understanding Instant Messaging (IM) and its security risks
Instant messaging is very popular in consumer sector. However, it has yet to be used widely in the commercial sector as e-mail is currently used. The major drawback has been the vulnerabilities associated with IM technology. These vulnerabilities have created several security issues. The security issues have made organizations think before exploiting IM technology. This paper provides an overview of IM technology. It discusses vulnerabilities of IM and related security issues. This paper also provides an insight in to the considerations an enterprise should give during the implementation of IM technology and related products.
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