Is anyone using VLANS at home?

[Nazbit]

Hi,

I've always wondered in the growing world of the internet of things, whether we should be ring fencing these devices.

I have quite a lot of home automation products like wemo, hue and ring. In addition to the usual smart TVs games consoles and everything else.

I've always wondered if these devices which are exposed to the internet bring with them the risk for additional exploits and vulnerabilities.

Would it be sensible to VLAN them away from laptops and computers?

The reason for me asking this now is that in the new year I'd like to ditch my wireless battery cctv cameras for a proper IP camera set up. This will mean running poe lan cables outside and whilst I'm sure the risk is very small, these could be used to gain access to the network.

So I'm wondering should I VLAN the ip cameras together and then another for computers and laptops and a third for IOT enabled devices?

Is this complete overkill? I don't want to over complicate things and be constantly troubleshooting, but I'm sure we will see these devices compromised at some point.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Thanks

 

[Nazbit]

Thanks for the replies. I've been doing more research.

I also have a guest ssid on my router with the option to firewall ithe separately, not using it at the moment though.

I'm going to get the loft boarded out early in the new year and then I'll run some cables for ip cameras and maybe some ubiquiti access points to sort out my coverage.

Probably split three ways, cctv, computers and then IOT / media devices.