murphy wrote:Putting Ooma in a router's DMZ is no more dangerous than putting Ooma in front of a router.
Murphy: Thanks for you refreshing breeze of common sense.
Lately I've done some checking and research. I was told that there is more than 2 billion, probably closer to 3 billion routers in service though out the world. A high percentage of those routers have DMZs. Every router manufacture in the world manufactures at least some of their routers with DMZs. Why would any router manufacture design and manufacture even one router with a DMZ, if are such extreme, dangerous security risks involved?
The answer is that the router DMZ is a very valuable tool, when configured and used properly.
I noticed that a little more then a year ago, in this forum, there was a big uproar about use of DMZs, with many people arguing for and against DMZ use.
I read every post in the over a year ago Ooma forum thread discussions about why to use, why not to use a DMZ.
No one mentioned the Norton family of products that when setup properly, will isolate one or more router LAN connected device, from all other router connected devices, in the same LAN. This is a very valuable tool for an Ooma user. It's like having your cake and eating it too.
For anyone that MUST use the router DMZ to be able to have their Ooma device function properly, the Norton family of products, using the "Network Security Map" to set a "Trust Control" "Restricted" security level for the Ooma device, is the perfect answer for anyone concerned about Router LAN security. It's almost like Norton designed the Network Security Map feature for Ooma.
The large company that I used to work for does this very thing for their smaller remote offices that use Router DMZs. They install a high end home consumer router for the office, along with Norton products on all of their computers/servers and are protected from the DMZ server, using the "Network Security Map". This combination has proven to be very reliable.
Norton has had the Network Security Map feature for a few years, and I'm sure that Norton’s competitors also have this same feature.