Guidance and Advice For Securing Your Home Wi-fi Network (and more)

In this section, we’ll cover off some important steps that we need to take in order to ensure that our digital environment is as secure as it can be. This will help us to guard against identity theft and more effectively manage our online reputation. Using strong and unique passwords is essential, but using them in an insecure environment isn’t going to move us forward all that much. We first need to shore up our own home systems, with a sizeable focus our wireless router, which has a track record of being hopelessly insecure when it first comes of out the box. If it looks like a long list, that's because there are lots of holes to fill. There really is no getting around that fact. So we'll start with our wireless router, and make sure that it is set up to keep uninvited guests out. And we'll then move onto securing other important and risk-laden systems.