A guide to implementing DIY security solutions and readily available technologies to protect
home and small-office networks from attack. This book is an easy-to-follow series of tutorials
that will lead readers through different facets of protecting household or small-business
networks from cyber attacks. You’ll learn how to use pfSense to build a firewall lock down
wireless segment a network into protected zones configure a VPN (virtual private network) to
hide and encrypt network traffic and communications set up proxies to speed up network
performance and hide the source of traffic block ads install and configure an antivirus back
up your data securely and even how to monitor your network for unauthorized activity and alert
you to intrusion.
