New Research from Orange Cyberdefense Reveals Risky Threats to Users Connecting from Home Routers

SPONSORED: Your home WiFi router may be screaming fast, but it's also a major point of vulnerability in this work-from-home era, says Charl van der Walt, head of security research at Orange Cyberdefense. And while Zero Trust offers some relief, he offers up some how-to advice to ensure it's properly deployed.

Terry Sweeney, Contributing Editor

May 26, 2021

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SPONSORED: WATCH NOW -- Your home WiFi router may be screaming fast, but it's also a major point of vulnerability in this work-from-home era, says Charl van der Walt, head of security research at Orange Cyberdefense. And while Zero Trust offers some relief, he offers up some how-to advice to ensure it's properly deployed.

SPONSORED BY ORANGE CYBERDEFENSE: Don't underestimate the threats from vulnerable home routers. Find actionable advice and checklists on which controls you have and how much impact they will have on securing your remote workforce! Find detailed advice in our paper.

About the Author

Terry Sweeney

Contributing Editor

Terry Sweeney is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor who has covered technology, networking, and security for more than 20 years. He was part of the team that started Dark Reading and has been a contributor to The Washington Post, Crain's New York Business, Red Herring, Network World, InformationWeek and Mobile Sports Report.

In addition to information security, Sweeney has written extensively about cloud computing, wireless technologies, storage networking, and analytics. After watching successive waves of technological advancement, he still prefers to chronicle the actual application of these breakthroughs by businesses and public sector organizations.


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