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Securing IoT devices from hacking? (alien.top)
 

I've been told that I should put my IoT devices on a separate VLAN from everything else, but what other steps can I take to make sure that my devices don't get hacked?

Note: I will be using a dedicated wifi router for my IoT and hooking that up (on it's own VLAN) to a OPNsense firewall server. I'm using a dedicated router for this because 1. I have an extra one and 2. my IoT requires both wifi and ethernet connections. Right now Google is controlling my IoT but I hope to set up my own app for it at some point.

Am I crazy to move to pfSense from OPNsense? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

pfSense is what happens when you take OPNsense and put a chick in it and make her gay and lame. Always go with open source.

What can you do with your own domain name in regards to self hosting? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I miss the days when you could just do [email protected] when signing up on a website, but now everyone either outright rejects it as invalid or parses it out.

It was useful because you could see who was selling your email address, but that exposed too many companies and was losing them $$$ so they patched it :(

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What can you do with your own domain name in regards to self hosting? (alien.top)
 

One perk that someone told me about is that you can use your domain to get around not having a static IP (because the DNS will compensate).

If I were to get a Cloudflare domain name then what would be some other pros and cons?

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Best security practices when using a system like TrueNAS Core? (alien.top)
 

I know that this is not the TrueNAS subreddit, but I wanted to get a fresh "outside of the box" opinion that might not be possible to get over there.

I don't really know much about networking, but I do know that ideal networks would theoretically have a single server perform a single task (ie web/email/file storage) and that each server would have a firewall server between them.

TrueNAS throws this out of the window because you can pretty much host everything together.

My question is to ask you guys what best security practices could be implemented (other than keep everything patched/updated frequently) if I were to try to run NextCloud and Navidrome and Jellyfin.

What threat mitigation tactics could I use inside and outside of this system to have reasonable security? The apps I listed seem to have pretty good support in TrueNAS Core, but maybe I should consider separate servers?

I wanted to add that I have a Sophos XG 115 that I will be putting OPNsense on and learning how to configure, and I have various Linksys routers that I can throw OpenWRT on too.