OK, @Stu_H , I maybe need to explain things a bit further. Various members of my family have different bits of ‘smart’ tech in their houses and, for some reason, come to me for help. This is, to some extent, because in the past, I’ve been able to sort out many of their IT problems.
Last week I was asked about the risk of smart devices being hacked/accessed from outside. This was partly due to my niece being unable to login to the app that controls, and allows her to view the feed from, the camera by her garage. She is an on-call doctor and always checks the feed before she goes to the garage at night.
As it turned out, she’d forgotten that she’d been forced by the app to change the password but, after reading about security camera hacking, it’s got her a bit worried. She has quite a few smart devices, of the type mentioned in my original post. She also has IT equipment that links to clinical systems for remote diagnostics so there may be limitations on what she can do (without affecting how they connect via a supplied VPN).
I had wondered if it would be possible to create subnets off the router so she could have, for example, one for her smart devices and another for her ‘work’ equipment. I read something about hardware firewalls that implied that that was possible – unfortunately, I ended up going down lots of rabbit holes that just confused matters.
Thanks in advance for any ideas/info.
