Many of us have now spent nearly nine months working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic and have adapted to this new way of doing things potentially on a long-term or even permanent basis. Many employers now realize that their workers can be just as efficient as working remotely as they would on-premises. But just because you can work efficiently in a remote setting doesn't mean you are working in the most secure way possible. Here are several technologies you can look at -- some of which may already exist as options that need to be turned on in your home networking equipment -- that you can use to work more securely at home over the next year and beyond.
Nothing beats good old fashioned wired Ethernet for security and network performance. If you have a home office and can put a small switch on your desk, connect your PCs, printers, and other work equipment to it, and then switch to the router, do that instead of using Wi-Fi. If you have one of those new computer science or computer engineering or Windows laptops that don't have an Ethernet port, by all means, get one of the USB-C Ethernet dongles or a docking station. In addition to providing Ethernet, docking stations are especially good for adding extra USB ports and splitting out the video and audio to multiple external monitors and speakers.
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