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Remote work and the home network: the office Wi-Fi password does not protect you

An employee signs in to mail and the admin panel from home. A router with a default password and a computer shared with children are part of your perimeter, even if the office is locked.

The office can be locked, and the work still happens from a kitchen. Mail, the CMS, the accounting system in the browser, the ad account. The home router still has the password from the box, the computer is shared with the family, the disk is shared. Demanding a "corporate fortress" in an apartment is pointless. It makes sense not to open from that computer the things you cannot afford to lose.

A working minimum without buying hardware for everyone

  • A second factor on mail and admin panels. A password stolen from a home browser is then not the same as a sign-in.
  • A separate browser profile for work, with no saved company-bank passwords in the family profile.
  • No access to the server and the host from a shared tablet or through someone else's internet "accelerator".
  • If office-network access is needed, it is a personal access, not one VPN for everyone in the chat.

You are unlikely to administer home routers in bulk. It is enough to tell people to change the factory password and not to install dubious "accelerators" on the work sign-in. The rest is decided on your side: short sessions, roles, a ban on a shared admin.

Lexora treats remote access as part of office protection, and the site as a separate audit. Mixing them in one quote is a mistake: a leaky VPN is not fixed by storefront headers. Both passes are remote. A visit is needed only if the server room itself has to be seen. The basic site audit is free for new clients. The office contour is quoted after a list of who signs in from where.

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Do people sign in to the admin panel from home?

We will look at roles and the second factor. We will not bulk-configure an employee's router.