NSA Releases Best Practices For Securing Your Home Network

In this video, we will be discussing the National Security Agency's (NSA) recommendations for securing your home network. I will go through the highlights and provide some additional information in certain areas.

The NSA has released guidelines to help individuals and families better protect their home networks and be more secure against cyber threats. In this video, we will go through most of these recommendations in hopes that it better explains these very useful recommendations.

A special thanks to Steve Gibson from the Security Now podcast for bringing this to our attention.

Links discussed in the video:
NSA Recommendations:

[AinzOoalGwn]

a simple tip for the average joe is setting up guest wifi. so when you have guests over, steer them to use the guest wifi where untrusted devices can access the net from. so you can keep those things separate and away from your private network.

you may not be in a situation where you can decline someone access to the internet, but you can at least manage them so they don't infect you regardless of how they botch their own security practises so it doesn't hit you as collateral :X

[jossmaxwell]

Thank you for this video. I will be using these recommendation later on.

[Mark.R.]

Hi Mike, I'm new to your channel (subscribed a few days ago) and I'm looking forward to your upcoming video on segmenting IoT devices (I've got Amazon Echo's; TP-Link camera's, Smart Bulbs, led strips (TP-Link, GE, Philips), Ring Door Bell, Blink Cameras, TP-Link smart plugs, oh my! ) and I don't even use guest Wi-Fi (shame on me - I just give friends access to the primary Wi-Fi !) . This security stuff is huge, and I'm clearly making it too easy for the bad guys. It's easy to plug stuff in and forget about it. All help is appreciated.

[stevencaissie]

Thanks Mike for your work. I loved it.

[DavidM]

Mike, I'm a pretty careful web user, keeping away from the sketchy stuff. I have no open ports on my router and use Tailscale for the odd time that I want to connect to my NAS remotely. The only thing close to IOT devices are security cams but I have a filter set in my Synology router to completely block their access to the outside world other than a time signal to update the clocks. Would you recommend enabling the firewalls on my router and NAS or is that unnecessary complexity and overkill ?

[rockzors]

I tried the network segment thing, but if I have my Google home on a different network then my more secure devices like my phone, then I am unable to cast to them. Any ideas on what to do here?

[pilsplease]

Most of my devices including brand new ones are all WPA2 devices the only device with 3 is my gaming laptop and my iphone the rest are all WPA2 devices including both my xbox and my ps5 and my astrophotography devices as well as all my smart tv's. Im running EERO Routers which are Wifi 6 devices and support WPA3 for devices that support it.

[pbrigham]

Great video for awareness, unfortunately 90% of the people will not understand at least 75% of the document. They just don't have a single clue the risks they take being connected to the internet, still think of the internet like it was 10 or 20 years ago.

[nickquik]

For the NSA to be who they are droppong gems like this, they definitely have backdoors to most of these programs 😂

[AinzOoalGwn]

in addition to mike's video, i also recommend this other one which shows you the necessary steps for securing your lan network


and ultimately, the best security is no remote access. and if remote access is needed then extra risk is a given, but that is different than not setting remote access with security layers to keep it as safe as possible versus simply exposing without any layers of security added :/

[RabbitHead-bm]

Real question: Has anyone actually had their home network "hacked" without giving their passwords out to someone as the result of a phishing email? I thought so ;-) Much to do about nothing. Believe me, there isn't an army of Black Hats trying to crack your network LOL

[AinzOoalGwn]

these 2 videos explains how cloudflare can be used for remote access


the entire process is demonstrated, but gives you an idea the layers of protections for remote access, and not simply leaving the door wide open with caution to the wind 🤣