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Security Solutions: Secure your routers

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by techperspective

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In this week's Security Solutions TechMail, Michael Mullins says if your routers aren't secure, then you are, in effect, running a public network. Are your routers secure? What security procedures do you recommend for accessing your routers?

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by tnturner.com

Alot of absolute great topics on security, but what about the average home user? lets say a home user with a dsl running thrue a d-link router with a win2k-pro winxp-pro win98 clients and zone alarm as there firewall on each machine...how would theymake sure they are secure or atleast as secure as they could be? I know turning off win98 file sharing and renaming admin accnt on 2k but theres alot more! So what do you home users do? lets hear some feed back on ideas and configurations. :)

by gordonaleksin

I use Linksys's VPN router on my networks that I support. I use SSH along with VHC to tunnel into the network. It is very secure because it uses IPsec off the Linksys router. I am currently testing Windows 2000 .net Server in the same scenerio, running terminal services and it works fine so far.

by timothy j. bruce

Personally, I'm using Freesco (www.freesco.org). Not only is it cheap (i.e., Free ), and great support through it's forums, it allows me a lot more control since it is a Linux variant. I am able to add SSH to it to directly control the server, and can monitor the packets flowing through my network. As the related article states, it is easy to set up (hey, I was able to do it!) and configure.

Take a look at it and see if it fits your situation.

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