The Hidden Risk of Consumer Devices in the Hybrid Workforce

Consumer-grade routers, cameras, and IoT devices — including products recently added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — are creating a broad enterprise attack surface: unpatched and unsupported home devices enable traffic interception, DNS manipulation, lateral movement into corporate assets, and large-scale botnet formation. Organizations should treat home network exposure as a first-class risk and adopt measures such as network segmentation, endpoint detection, user education, and providing enterprise-managed routers for sensitive roles.