today i'm going to walk you through
simple steps to secure your home wi-fi
network to make sure that your home
is a safe place to get online let's get
this done
welcome to all things secured my name is
josh this is tech tip tuesday a segment
of this channel where i walk you step by
step through the most important things
that you can do in five minutes or less
to increase your security and privacy on
things like your mobile devices and here
for your wi-fi router and your home
network now a lot of people just
set their home network and forget about
it they take the password
and the ssid that they were given by
their internet provider and that's what
they use but there are so many more
steps that you can take and i'm just
going to share with you five of the
easiest ones that you can do right now
and this is going to
require you to be near your router so if
you can just move to the place where
you're going to be
with your router you want to be looking
at your router in order to log into the
administration if you're using
any other router you it's generally
going to be on the bottom or on the back
inside where you can find that six or
seven digit code along with a password
that's printed on it
if you're using an apple airport you can
log into the airport app
on your mac and what you're looking for
the first thing that we want to change
is the ssid this is the id that comes up
when you're searching for wi-fi
what you may not realize is that a lot
of these ids can be tied back to the
manufacturer of that particular router
and that router may have known
vulnerabilities so that if i
as a hacker see that particular id i
know how i can hack into it in addition
to that it also can be an identifier to
know oh that
that wi-fi is related to this house
that's really expensive and i would want
to definitely hack into that so what you
want to do is you just want to rename it
try not to make it too personally
identifiable
don't make it your name if you can just
make it
something that changes the name of the
ssid
and then allows you to know exactly what
it is it's not going to make this super
secure but it is just a simple change
that you can make
while you're in there the second thing
that we want to do is we want to set up
a new
more secure password obviously your
internet provider gave you a password
and set up your wi-fi
with password protection but you want to
do something that's maybe a little bit
better
so you want to create a strong unique
password
i use a password generator and a
password manager like one password to
help me with stuff like this
and that's something you can consider as
well when you're in the settings for
your router another thing you want to
look at is disabling remote
access there's very few times when
you're going to want to have the ability
to remotely access your router
what that means is if you're not
physically present near the wi-fi
router it's giving you the ability to
basically dial in
from another location and there's no
reason that you're going to want to use
that
for most people it's an advanced feature
so i recommend that you
take and disable that feature if you can
if you have a lot of guests over one of
the things that happens is you tend to
give out
your wi-fi password and that wi-fi
password gets stored in their devices
for basically forever if you were to
look into your wi-fi settings
you'd find that you probably have quite
a few networks that are remembered and
saved
in your device now what that means is
they also have access to
your network depending on how it's set
up that could even include your internet
of things devices like your alexa
or your google assistant all of these
things so one of the things that i do
that can be done
in a number of different ways is setting
up a separate wi-fi network
for guests and other people so i have a
wi-fi network that's secured
specifically for my family and our
devices
and then i have a separate network that
is for my internet of things
and for any guests that come in so that
when they ask for that password i'm not
giving away my secure password that i
use for
you know the all of my internet
connection stuff now this can be done
by having a separate router entirely
which
takes a little bit of time to set up if
you use something like an apple airport
or some other advanced routers
they actually have an option for what
they call a guest id
and this just sets up a separate wi-fi
network that is completely separated so
that they don't have access to your home
network when they access that particular
guest
network finally this is something that i
don't see a lot of people doing but it's
really important let's say that you're
going on a vacation or you're leaving
your house for more than just the
regular hours of work
turn off your wi-fi there's no reason to
have your wi-fi continuing to go on
because especially if you're using
internet of things alexa all of these
other devices
those are just other access points to
your network and the last thing you want
is to just
leave that open and available for
anybody to
just take their time trying to hack
while you're away from your house that's
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