Honeypot Setup at Home: A High-Signal Intrusion Tripwire
A home honeypot is a fake service — a decoy SSH server, a phony file share — that sits on…
Category: VLANs & Network Security
Reading IDS Logs for Beginners: Triage in Ten Seconds
Reading an IDS alert comes down to four questions answered in about ten seconds: what fired, who started it, where…
pfBlockerNG vs Suricata: How the Two Layers Differ
pfBlockerNG and Suricata solve different problems and aren’t alternatives. pfBlockerNG is a blocklist enforcer — it stops your network from…
Tuning IDS Rules for Home Networks: From Noise to Signal
Tuning a home IDS means three things: setting HOME_NET so the engine knows your network, disabling the rule categories that…
Suricata vs Snort for a Home Network: Which IDS to Run
For a home network in 2026, run Suricata. It’s multithreaded, it scales across the cores in a modern firewall appliance,…
Home Network Intrusion Detection: The Complete IDS & IPS Guide
Home network intrusion detection means putting a sensor inline with your traffic that inspects packets against threat signatures and tells…
VLAN for IoT: Caging Smart-Home Devices the Right Way
A VLAN for IoT exists to cage the least-trustworthy devices in your house — the smart plugs, cameras, TVs, and…
Network Segmentation: How to Divide a Home Network
Network segmentation is the practice of dividing one network into isolated zones so a problem in one cannot spread to…
Managed Switch Setup: Trunks, Tags, and VLANs Done Right
Managed switch setup is the step where most home VLAN projects stall, and it comes down to one concept executed…
VLAN Firewall Rules: Default-Deny Recipes That Hold
VLAN firewall rules are where segmentation stops being decoration and starts being security. The rule is brutally simple: default-deny everything…