[Discuss] Secure Wireless Router for Non-Profit

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 09:48:47AM -0400, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [Discuss] Secure Wireless Router for Non-Profit
> > Local Time: September 15, 2017 9:31 AM
> > UTC Time: September 15, 2017 1:31 PM
> > From: willrico at gmail.com
> > To: L-blu <discuss at blu.org>
> >
> > I"m helping a non-profit which has a justifiably higher than typical fear
> > of security threats. They need a new wifi router, and I wonder what the
> > BLU community might recommend? The office is pretty small (2 rooms, maybe
> > 5 connected computers at peak, usually fewer).
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Will
> 
> If you want secure, and it's only two rooms, use wires?

If possible. Cellphones and tablets have a remarkable lack of
ethernet jacks.

That said, don't depend on wifi security. Use a VPN setup.
OpenVPN is not bad.

Physical security will need to go with that, of course.

And 2-factor authentication for anything significant.

-dsr-