{"id":8898,"date":"2020-05-11T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datcomllc.com\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2020-05-11T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T08:30:10","slug":"how-to-safely-use-wireless-internet-to-work-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/11\/how-to-safely-use-wireless-internet-to-work-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Safely Use Wireless Internet to Work from Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While remote work has gained an understandable boost in popularity, many business owners and technology specialists may still be concerned about how secure the Wi-Fi connections that workers are using in the home are. To waylay those fears, you need to be sure that your employees are using their networks as securely as they can.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To help, we\u2019ll be going over a few best practices that you and your team can implement to improve the security of your remote work when using a wireless connection.<\/p>\n<h2>Password Best Practices are a Must<\/h2>\n<p>Whether at home or in the office, everyone who works within your business needs to subscribe to good password standards. For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t rely on easy-to-guess passwords, passwords that rely on predictable patterns, or other passwords that might be found on \u201cinsecure password\u201d summaries.<\/li>\n<li>Use a passphrase, or a combination of unrelated, randomly chosen words, instead of a password. Not only are these more secure, they are often easy to remember.<\/li>\n<li>Update your passwords regularly, including your network access password. Don\u2019t give out the password to your network if you can help it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Optimize and Update<\/h2>\n<p>While many are in the habit of postponing updates until the performance of their tools begins to suffer, remote access requires the use of secure and effective solutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few tips:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each employee needs to have a sufficiently secure suite of solutions to protect the devices they are using, as well as their network as a whole. This should include a firewall, antivirus, and a virtual private network (VPN) connection.<\/li>\n<li>Each employee should also take additional steps to protect their solutions, such as adjusting and updating their networking hardware and changing the SSID it is known by.<\/li>\n<li>Furthermore, all devices themselves should have the latest security updates and patches installed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Making sure that your entire team is aware of these guidelines&#8211;and abides by them&#8211;is crucial to your security, regardless of whether they are operating in-house or remotely. For more assistance with your business\u2019 technology and the security that protects it, reach out to COMPANYNAME by calling PHONENUMBER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While remote work has gained an understandable boost in popularity, many business owners and technology specialists may still be concerned about how secure the Wi-Fi connections that workers are using in the home are. To waylay those fears, you need to be sure that your employees are using their networks as securely as they can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[234,15,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.datcomllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}