Welcome to my getting started guide to securing all of the new gadgets you got for Christmas and now have in connected to the internet your home. This guide presumes you are new to the subject of cybersecurity in the home and that you are using readily-available, off-the-shelf, consumer-grade routers and devices.
Did you get any newfangled technology gadgets as a gift this year? IoT devices like Nest Thermostats or a voice assistant like an Amazon Echo or Alexa, or maybe a Sonos music system, or Ring doorbell or Blink security camera system? These are common presents given over the holiday season that come with some serious tech bling but do not come with any knowledge for how to use them safely and not add potential risk to you, your family, or your livelihood in the new year.
More and more devices and appliances with Internet capabilities are on the market than last year or the year before but manufacturers still don't make our privacy or security a priority. So, the work falls on us as consumers to inform ourselves and perform steps to minimize our risks.
So what can we do if we've already bought one of these devices? While there isn't antivirus for your smart TV, what follows are some steps to help protect your Wi-Fi network so that Smart TV doesn’t become an easily-hacked back door into your network and into your home or office, leading to more serious breaches of your privacy and security.
The Risks Have Changed
Connecting every device possible to the Internet seems like a great idea in theory but we need to consider the implications that come along with new conveniences. We would never intentionally leave our house unl ..
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