Can my employer see or access other devices?

VPN
1

I work from home. I have a work computer that is connected to my home’s internet.

When working I use the Internet connection to sign into the company VPN which connects my work computer to their servers.

I noticed today that if I look at “Network” on my work computer, it detects my home’s Wyze cameras.

Does this mean that by using my work computer to connect to VPN, my employer can see all devices connected to my house internet?

If yes, what could they see or do?

If yes, how do you hide devices from the network?

I don’t want my employer being able to see or access my personal computer or personal devices on my home internet just because I have my work computer connected to a company VPN.

P.S. I have never, nor would I ever connect my personal computer to the company VPN.

2

Potentially? Yes. Plausibly? No. It would be a bit of an effort to do and for what purpose?

With that in mind if you are worried put your company device in the guest WiFi, usually guest WiFi isolates devices from each other.

There’s more ways to segregate if you want to be more thorough but I’d encourage working with someone technical you trust if you are concerned.

3

Just turn off network discovery in Control Panel, unless it conflicts with something you need attached. Then your laptop won’t see other devices on the network.

4

One way to make sure that is does not happen, it to create another vlan just for you work.

Then use it to connect to the work VPN, this way it isolated from your normal lan.

5

Awesome, thank you! I’m ashamed that I never thought about this before.

6

Awesome thanks. So to confirm, my employer cannot see other devices in my house just because my work computer is connected to the company VPN?

WorkPC —> Home Internet —> VPN

7

I don’t think so? I’m not a networking guru, so take that with a grain of salt, but that’s my understanding