Hello all,
I would like your input about a unique situation I am trying to solve.
I work at a fire station and oversee our union members mini network... which consists of three stations, routers, three desktop/printer workstations, and numerous personal wi-fi connected devices.
Our union wishes to restrict access ONLY to union members. We have a number of public and non-union personnel who attempt to connect to our network daily and we want this to stop.
My first thought is to enable MAC filtering on the routers, however, I read all over the internet that MAC filtering doesn't do anything for security... and, of course, MAC IDs can be spoofed. We know there is no all-inclusive solution - we're just looking to prevent members of the public from being able to connect to our privately funded network. The likely hood of our rural dept being subjected to members spoofing MAC IDs, etc is pretty low.
I still wish to leave our WPA2-Personal encryption active as well.
Does anyone have any suggestions to restrict access other than changing WiFi keys, hiding SSID, and MAC filtering?
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
I would like your input about a unique situation I am trying to solve.
I work at a fire station and oversee our union members mini network... which consists of three stations, routers, three desktop/printer workstations, and numerous personal wi-fi connected devices.
Our union wishes to restrict access ONLY to union members. We have a number of public and non-union personnel who attempt to connect to our network daily and we want this to stop.
My first thought is to enable MAC filtering on the routers, however, I read all over the internet that MAC filtering doesn't do anything for security... and, of course, MAC IDs can be spoofed. We know there is no all-inclusive solution - we're just looking to prevent members of the public from being able to connect to our privately funded network. The likely hood of our rural dept being subjected to members spoofing MAC IDs, etc is pretty low.
I still wish to leave our WPA2-Personal encryption active as well.
Does anyone have any suggestions to restrict access other than changing WiFi keys, hiding SSID, and MAC filtering?
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!