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.
