Best security practice for small networks - wifi, lan,
- by Grimlockz
We regularly setup small networks for clients in different locations to allow them to work on different products now the question what should be the best security practice.
Currently we have a wifi enabled with WPA2 and most laptops connect to this but some will connect to a cabled switch connecting to the router.
We are thinking on what we should do to increase the security on our small networks - We do have have security on the laptops so you can share directly to the other persons drive by a simple Windows user account.
Some suggestions are:
We get a LAN switch with ACL control and mac filtering for the hard wired connections?
We get acl working on the wifi via a good Cisco router?
ipSec policies on all machines?
IP filtering and fixed IPs?
I suppose people are worried that anyone can plug into the switches and get the access to the network .
Summary:
Maintain a level of decent security that can be replicated easily to every setup that we do for clients
