VLAN Segmentation at Home: Keeping Your Smart Toaster Away from Your NAS

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Here is an uncomfortable fact about most home networks: every device on them can talk to every other device. Your laptop, your phone, your NAS full of irreplaceable photos, and that £25 smart plug running firmware last updated when it left the factory in Shenzhen — they’re all on the same flat subnet, able to reach each other freely. The smart plug has a hardcoded telnet password and a cloud connection you can’t see into. The NAS has everything you care about. On a flat network, the first is one hop from the second.

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VLAN Segmentation at Home: Keeping Your Smart Toaster Away from Your NAS