SMART-HOME SECURITY

Smart-homes are becoming increasingly popular, and many manufacturers improve their products to be "smart", "connected", or "cloud-enabled". While it is not always clear what they actually mean with these terms, communication with other devices and the ability to being controlled at least partially from somewhere else are part of it. But this increasing trend also introduces security problems: what can be controlled from a single mobile device might also be manipulated from anyone on the Internet, if no security measures are present or those existing are faulty. This paper explores these security issues and discusses what countermeasures should be present in a smart-home system to ensure security in its various aspects.