Cyber-Ransom-Proof Home Network

<h3><strong>Why you need this book</strong></h3><p>Ransomware gangs no longer target just corporations. A hijacked baby cam a bricked thermostat or a demand for Bitcoin to turn your lights back on can hit any household. Veteran penetration tester <strong>Jasper Lowe</strong> shows you how to out-engineer criminals with consumer hardware and open-source software - no computer-science degree required.</p><p></p><h3><strong>What you'll master</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>ISP-independent defence</strong> - cache DNS mirror firmware and keep Home Assistant running when the internet-or the attacker-pulls the plug.</li><li><strong>DIY hardware firewall</strong> - flash inexpensive single-board routers with OpenWRT write tight iptables rules and add automatic IP-block-list feeds.</li><li><strong>Guest-IoT-Work network slicing</strong> - VLANs MAC whitelists and WPA3 keys that quarantine every smart bulb without throttling your Zoom calls.</li><li><strong>Ransomware kill-switch backups</strong> - air-gapped snapshots immutable ZFS datasets and a Raspberry Pi that boots an emergency media server.</li><li><strong>Offline voice & automation</strong> - swap cloud skill servers for open-source alternatives so Alexa-style convenience survives an outage.</li><li><strong>Rapid incident response</strong> - three-command triage to freeze traffic trace the breach and re-flash compromised gadgets in under an hour.</li></ul><p></p><p>Real-world walkthroughs include: blocking Mirai clones on a TP-Link router converting an old laptop into a Security Onion sensor and building a Faraday-cage charging locker for guests' devices.</p><p></p><h3><strong>About the author</strong></h3><p>Jasper Lowe has broken into Fortune-500 networks (legally) for fifteen years teaches blue-team tactics at DEF CON's Blue Village and runs the popular Home Lab Ops YouTube channel.</p>