[Hidden-tech] Separate lan for company laptop

[Aaron E-J]

Most routers have the ability to set up a guest network (I know that
Netgear does and I think that other companies have similar things).  If
you login to the router, look for something that has 'guest' or 'subnet"
in its name, enable it and uncheck "Allow guest to access My Local
Network" (at least that is what you do on Netgear).  I would keep a
firewall in place though, because the firewall is mainly preventing
malicious incoming traffic from getting in.  There isn't much that you
can do to prevent them from knowing that things are coming from the same
place unless you set up a VPN but placing your work computer in a
different subnet will allow you to share files in your personal network
without risking it being seen by your employer.

Aaron E-J
The Other Realm LLC
http://otherrealm.org
http://theotherrealm.org (Blog)

On 2019-03-02 5:46 PM, Andy Klapper via Hidden-discuss wrote:
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> I’ve spent a lot of time working remotely for various companies but I
> just got a new job where I am being issued a company laptop (in the
> past I’ve been a consultant and provided my own hardware).  Because
> this is company hardware they can put anything they want on the laptop
> and I not only have zero say on it but they don’t even have to tell me
> what they put on the laptop.  I would like to structure my home
> network so that this laptop sits outside of the firewall that
> surrounds my home network.  How do I go about doing that?  Is it as
> simple as putting a small inexpensive router between my cable modem
> and my primary house router?  Do I need to do more to secure my home
> network from my foreign hardware?
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