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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 833389"><p>Infections can come from anywhere. Despite being 'careful', your threat surface is going to be significant by merely using a Microsoft based operating system. As careful as you want will often not matter in the end as we've seen countless times from exploits implanted in popular web pages. Update channel compromises, etc.</p><p></p><p>Your only real choice for 1 single protection on a Microsoft OS is going to be a full lockdown/default deny. Regardless of the product, that's what is going to protect you well enough through a variety of attacks.</p><p></p><p>IoT is a huge problem. Most of it is not protected (at all). Most of it is fully exposed on the WAN. Significant numbers of IoT are pre-consumer compromised, reaching back to Chinese Military hubs right out of the box. If you have IoT and have it sitting behind a normal router you are bleeding data and have a large threat surface. You need some kind of UTM Router to fix this. For example you can place Gryphon into full blacklist mode, then whitelist exactly what the IoT needs to communicate with (usually AWS). Otherwise your WiFi enabled Fridge or Washing Machine is a very real, easily exploitable attack surface into your internal network.</p><p></p><p>But once again, unless you lock down windows, and consider it a high risk environment (which it is), and develop a default-deny type of profile which whatever product/method you choose, you are at risk.</p><p></p><p>PS: It's another issue, but one should ask why our govt. doesn't require security aspects in IoT deployed throughout the USA. Cars have to meet safety requirements and crash tests, IoT needs minimum acceptable standards. Our govt. is completely inept at all of this and the 70 year old full time politicians are about as intelligent as house flies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 833389"] Infections can come from anywhere. Despite being 'careful', your threat surface is going to be significant by merely using a Microsoft based operating system. As careful as you want will often not matter in the end as we've seen countless times from exploits implanted in popular web pages. Update channel compromises, etc. Your only real choice for 1 single protection on a Microsoft OS is going to be a full lockdown/default deny. Regardless of the product, that's what is going to protect you well enough through a variety of attacks. IoT is a huge problem. Most of it is not protected (at all). Most of it is fully exposed on the WAN. Significant numbers of IoT are pre-consumer compromised, reaching back to Chinese Military hubs right out of the box. If you have IoT and have it sitting behind a normal router you are bleeding data and have a large threat surface. You need some kind of UTM Router to fix this. For example you can place Gryphon into full blacklist mode, then whitelist exactly what the IoT needs to communicate with (usually AWS). Otherwise your WiFi enabled Fridge or Washing Machine is a very real, easily exploitable attack surface into your internal network. But once again, unless you lock down windows, and consider it a high risk environment (which it is), and develop a default-deny type of profile which whatever product/method you choose, you are at risk. PS: It's another issue, but one should ask why our govt. doesn't require security aspects in IoT deployed throughout the USA. Cars have to meet safety requirements and crash tests, IoT needs minimum acceptable standards. Our govt. is completely inept at all of this and the 70 year old full time politicians are about as intelligent as house flies. [/QUOTE]
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