How do you secure smart home devices?
Tip 1: choose a strong password
Create a strong password for all your smart devices. A strong password has many different letters, numbers, and characters. Or use an entire sentence as a password. Use a different password for each smart home device. That way, if someone guesses your password, they can't access all your smart devices right away.
Tip 2: use a password manager
Are you having trouble remembering all those different passwords? Store them in a password manager. This is like a digital safe that you can write all your passwords in. You secure the password manager with a code or a fingerprint or facial recognition on some smartphones. That way, you only have to remember 1 password.
Tip 3: install all updates
Smart devices are updated often. Did you get a notification about a new update? Install the update right away. An update makes the security of your device stronger. That way, you can protect your data from hackers and viruses better. You can mostly install an update via the settings in the app of the smart home device. Some devices have automatic updates.
Tip 4: use a VPN
Install a VPN on your smart home device and make the internet connection of the device secure. A VPN makes your data unreadable to hackers. If you have many smart devices in your home, install a VPN on your router. That way, you can secure the network of your entire home. Do you often work on the train or in a cafe? Install a VPN on your laptop and smartphone. That's because hackers can easily access your personal data via a public WiFi network. With a VPN, no one but you can access it.
Tip 5: use Matter
With Matter, smart devices from different smart home platforms can work together. Matter is useful for your smart home and it's extra secure. The connection of your devices that work with Matter have AES encryption. Thanks to this encryption, all data of your smart devices are unreadable to hackers. This makes the security of Matter better than that of most other platforms.
