How to Secure Your Home Network

This blog-style report uses an anecdote about a researcher accessing hotel lighting to highlight risks from network-connected home devices and then provides concise, practical guidance to harden home networks. Recommended controls include using WPA2 with AES, updating router firmware, changing default SSIDs and admin passwords, using long passphrases, disabling WPS and UPnP (and remote access when not needed), adjusting router placement and signal strength, and monitoring/logging out of the router interface to detect unfamiliar devices.