The router has basic firewall protection. Those are layered with the protection built into the Linux and windows installed on the museum PC (such as it is). I agree that it may not be the ideal protection against all threats, however there's some effort required in configuring and maintaining a firewall appliance. Is someone willing to set this up with out of band management and maintain/troubleshoot? On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:43 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
All computing resources should be protected, there's no excuse for zero protection nowadays. Even if you think it's a trivial system with no valuable data, it's still got computing power and can become part of a botnet. Some of the recent massive botnet attacks we've seen have come from security cameras, DVRs, and smart fridges, devices usually considered too unimportant by the average person to get a second thought about security.
Excellent points. Dean says the switch has plenty of protection itself. Thoughts?