Our network admin has requested that a single remote employee purchase a separat

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Our network admin has requested that a single remote employee purchase a separate modem in their house for "work" traffic. I question if this is a legitimate security practice of any kind especially because other employees access company resources from home all the time using their shared home ISP.

The one difference between this user and others is that they have a Cisco IP phone. However, with encryption enabled, I don't see how having a separate modem enhances security, except the network won't have other devices on it assuming the user is compliant. However the Cisco phone uses VPN which I think takes care of isolating the traffic.

Is asking a user to have two separate modems, one for leisure and one for work, a legitimate security request that enhances security, or does this not really improve security at all?

Explanation / Answer

I think there are many factors that could make it a legitimate request:

- other people in the home who might need network segregation
- load balancing
- old equipment (getting a newer modem)
- VPN configurations

I, myself, have made the same request to a certain remote employee to ensure separation of use within that employee's home. Sometimes it's simply to ensure that the work traffic is not competing with heavy home traffic.

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