Peace of mind starts with feeling safe and secure, especially at home. Just ask your customers why they hired you to put in a security system. Protecting their assets, especially those they love (think — family), is paramount and they selected you based on trust. As connected home technologies expand and deliver life-changing innovations, they also present new security challenges. We need to take these issues seriously, because they directly impact consumer trust – and that means an opportunity for you, the trusted security professional, to step up and be the hero by improving IoT security in the home.
Check out the Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA) Connected Home Cybersecurity System, designed by installers, for installers. It will help guide you through network security procedures for installing and configuring products on a network. The system includes three parts: