Protecting your family

[nick.fulldisclosure at gmail.com (Nick)]

To protect my family from inappropriate content, I use squid with
squidguard.  To help prevent malicious content from reaching outside, I have
a BO level firewall on the perimeter with very strict in and out rules.  I
also have a logging server that eats everything happening on the network
which I review twice a week.  It's no silver bullet (as nothing ever is),
but it's better than nothing.

 

I may be going a little overboard, but I try to treat my home network like I
would an enterprise network.  Multiple layers of defense not just from a
standpoint of outside in, but also inside out.  Most everything used to
protect the network and my family is open source as I don't have a budget to
buy enterprise level solutions.  Now, this is just what I've done.  You can
do more or less, it's basically dependant on your level of comfort with your
network security posture. 

 

Hope this gives you a better idea of where to go with protecting your
family.

 

-Nick

 

 

P.S. I'd like to hear what others have done with their home networks.  It's
always interesting to know how other security minded people protect their
homes.

From: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com
[mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of Jason Guyer
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 3:35 PM
To: Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
Subject: [Pauldotcom] Protecting your family

 


I have a baby girl on the way and it suddenly hit me, what am I going to do
to protect my family (myself included) from online attacks? There are
content filters like squid proxy as well as things that do more like
"Untangle" or I can filter through OpenDNS. Any options or suggestions?

 

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