Twelve router settings to check before anything else
Updated for WPA3 transition mode and the latest OpenWrt 24.10 defaults.
Read the guide βMost small-office breaches we clean up start at a router with a default password or a printer exposed to the internet. These are the steps our technicians follow on every install β written up so you can follow them too.
Each one is a single sitting: about 20β40 minutes for a typical office of up to 50 devices.
Admin access, Wi-Fi, WPS, UPnP, remote management and logging β the twelve settings that matter.
Put printers in their own segment, close raw ports to the outside and switch off protocols nobody uses.
How to verify an image before flashing, keep a rollback path and schedule updates outside office hours.
Firewall rule examples, an update log template and a network baseline you can adapt.
Found something odd in your logs? Send it over and we will take a look the same day.
We revise these guides after field visits and vendor advisories.
Updated for WPA3 transition mode and the latest OpenWrt 24.10 defaults.
Read the guide βA printer is a small Linux computer that nobody patches. Treat it like one.
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