Playbook 7
Household-staff & estate-network compromise
The estate is a small enterprise: shared Wi-Fi, smart-home systems, security cameras, and personal devices of household staff — often flat, unmanaged, and bridged straight to family devices.
The hard truth
A nanny's phishing click or a smart-home camera on the family Wi-Fi is a direct line into the principal's private life.
The first hour
- 1
Identify the compromised device or account and isolate it from the network.
- 2
Change the estate Wi-Fi credentials and boot unknown devices.
- 3
Check camera and smart-home accounts for unauthorized access and rotate passwords.
- 4
Determine what the staff account or device could reach on the family network.
- 5
Preserve logs before resetting so you understand the scope.
Stop the next one
- A segmented estate network: family, staff, guests, and IoT on separate VLANs.
- Managed, MFA-protected accounts for smart-home and camera systems.
- Basic security norms and training for household staff.
- An asset inventory so the estate's devices aren't a mystery.