MP 1,1-5,1 How to expand 20tb WFH network 4 machines?

[paintstone]

There is one Mac pro 5,1 a MacBook that is my daily use, a Mac mini, and two older iMacs that are essentially just storage/processors for NLP/ML algotrading machine learning tasks. All of these are networked by a 4 TB time machine that has been great but I don’t have any more ethernet ports.

There is one windows 7 machine that I keep for clients that are windows only but even that one windows machine makes my network feel unsecure/dirty and is a constant security concern.

It looks like I’m might have more clients work where I need to have their data on site and I would feel more comfortable having a better documented and more secure network set up.

I would like to harden the security, but I don’t know how secure the airport, Ethernet is and firewall is on each of my machines except the windows I have no clue what’s on that thing so confusing on windows. Also is there a way of documenting or checking that it is secure, i’ve heard of wire guard or shark wire some thing?

 

[BrianBaughn]

Adding an ethernet switch solves the port issue.

I don't know of anything that can secure a Windows 7 computer connected to the internet. If you're running outdated versions of macOS you should also be concerned about that.

You are obviously not a computer networking or systems security expert and should likely hire one considering it sounds like you are dealing with client financial data. If I saw a post like this from a firm handling any of my money/data I'd be outraged and drop them…and probably demand an independent security audit that confirms that they no longer possess any of my data.

If I am misinterpreting the issue I apologize.

 

[flat4]

Yep you need a consultant to help you out