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Originally Posted by masraum
Wow, well done!
Funny thing is that I work in IT, specifically networks, and have supported security and firewalls for many, many years.
I haven't run a commercial AVS like Norton, McAfee, etc... for many, many years (probably 20) and haven't had an issue in as long.
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Same here. Just retired after 23 years in IT. Masters Degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance. Don’t do anything special for home network. No Antivirus for over 20 years and have had no issues. Not much to protect at home. Biggest threat to security is human behavior so wife and I have educated kids on how to be responsible. I do have their iPhones locked down with content restrictions and block certain websites (including adult content). No access to facebook, tiktok, twitter, reddit among others and their phones basically brick at 9pm when we go to bed except ability to call specific phone numbers in case of emergency. Phones not allowed in their rooms.
All online services like banks, email, shopping etc use mfa. If they don’t offer mfa then the accounts get very strong passwords. But these days all vital online services that we use has mfa. Only access online accounts through home network. I do use vpn on my phone.
For email only emails from contacts go to my in box. Everything else goes to junk. If I’m expecting email from non-contact then I scan for that in junk and ignore the rest.
I had a virus lab used for research in a stand alone virtual environment that is isolated from my network via firewall but that’s been turned off for a few years.