Cybersecurity for Small Networks

A Guide for the Reasonably Paranoid

By Seth Enoka | Publisher: No Starch Press

About the book

A guide to implementing DIY security solutions and readily available technologies to protect home and small-office networks from attack.

This book is an easy-to-follow series of tutorials that will lead readers through different facets of protecting household or small-business networks from cyber attacks. You’ll learn how to use pfSense to build a firewall, lock down wireless, segment a network into protected zones, configure a VPN (virtual private network) to hide and encrypt network traffic and communications, set up proxies to speed up network performance and hide the source of traffic, block ads, install and configure an antivirus, back up your data securely, and even how to monitor your network for unauthorized activity and alert you to intrusion.

Editions of Cybersecurity for Small Networks

Paperback
ISBN 9781718501485
EBook
ISBN 9781718501492

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A guide to implementing DIY security solutions and readily available technologies to protect home and small-office networks from attack.

This book is an easy-to-follow series of tutorials that will lead readers through different facets of protecting household or small-business networks from cyber attacks. You’ll learn how to use pfSense to build a firewall, lock down wireless, segment a network into protected zones, configure a VPN (virtual private network) to hide and encrypt network traffic and communications, set up proxies to speed up network performance and hide the source of traffic, block ads, install and configure an antivirus, back up your data securely, and even how to monitor your network for unauthorized activity and alert you to intrusion.

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What is Cybersecurity for Small Networks about?

A guide to implementing DIY security solutions and readily available technologies to protect home and small-office networks from attack.

This book is an easy-to-follow series of tutorials that will lead readers through different facets of protecting household or small-business networks from cyber attacks. You’ll learn how to use pfSense to build a firewall, lock down wireless, segment a network into protected zones, configure a VPN (virtual private network) to hide and encrypt network traffic and communications, set up proxies to speed up network performance and hide the source of traffic, block ads, install and configure an antivirus, back up your data securely, and even how to monitor your network for unauthorized activity and alert you to intrusion.

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Cybersecurity for Small Networks?

Computing and Information Technology > Computer networking and communications > Network security

Where can I read a sample of Cybersecurity for Small Networks?

You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781718501485

Who is/are the Author/s of the book Cybersecurity for Small Networks?

Seth Enoka

Who is the Publisher of the book Cybersecurity for Small Networks?

No Starch Press

What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?

Cybersecurity for Small Networks is available as paperback(ISBN 9781718501485) and ebook(ISBN 9781718501492)

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