Failing to separate your business from your home

While it may not be necessary in all instances of home office scenarios, Krein recommends considering the nature of your work when deciding whether or not you need to segregate your work network from your home network. Certain types of work are subject to various laws and regulations. Using the same computer for work as you do for personal business could present an ethical, or even legal, issue."

"If you are doing work that requires , such as working with credit card numbers, or if its medical work and you are bound by , you would want to segregate your networks."

And there is also the issue of letting family members onto the work computer, which is a mistake, said Zbar. It is a common scene for a child to use a home office computer when it isn't being utilized for business, but Zbar recommends against this.

"We have different computers with printers in the house for the kids for their school projects and other things," he said