Assessing Users’ Privacy and Security Concerns of Smart Home Technologies

End User Security and Privacy Concerns with Smart Homes

The Internet of Things is becoming increasingly widespread in home environments. Consumers are transforming their homes into smart homes, with internet-connected sensors, lights, appliances, and locks, controlled by voice or other user-defined automations. Security experts have identified concerns with IoT and smart homes, including privacy risks as well as vulnerable and unreliable devices. Th...

Privacy and Security Concerns

Security and privacy awareness of home PC users in Norway

There is a growth in the use of consumer oriented internet based services such as internet banking. Some countries (e.g. Norway) have introduced citizen portals (e.g. MyPage – minside.no). These portals will give access to privacy sensitive data (e.g. health data). A recent survey of home pc security suggests that 90% of US home PCs are infected by some kind of malware. These infections are put...

End User Security & Privacy Concerns with Smart Homes

The Internet of Things is becoming increasingly widespread in home environments. Consumers are transforming their homes into smart homes, with internet-connected sensors, lights, appliances, and locks, controlled by voice or other user-defined automations. Security experts have identified concerns with IoT and smart homes, including privacy risks as well as vulnerable and unreliable devices. Th...

IoT Privacy and Security Challenges for Smart Home Environments

Often the Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as a single problem domain, with proposed solutions intended to be applied across a wide range of applications. However, the privacy and security needs of critical engineering infrastructure or sensitive commercial operations are very different to the needs of a domestic Smart Home environment. Additionally, the financial and human resources avai...