Residential Proxy Networks Explained

CYBER BYTES | IoT CYBERSECURITY

Your smart TV, streaming box, smart bird feeder, or home router could be quietly selling out your internet connection to criminals right now, and you’d have no way of knowing. In this episode of Cyber Bytes, Alex Ryals breaks down residential proxy networks: what they are, why threat actors build them, and the five things you can do to keep your home network secure.

For hybrid and remote teams, this isn’t only a personal issue. The same unpatched IoT devices and default passwords that get a home network recruited into one of these networks are often sitting on the same connection that employees use to reach company systems. Learn what to look for and how to protect your business networks, too.