7 Ways to Lock Down Your Smart Home Devices
By Daniel Wroclawski
This simple truth bears repeating: Anything you connect to the internet runs the risk of getting hacked or controlled remotely by someone else. To help mitigate such risks, follow these privacy and security guidelines from the experts at Consumer Reports to protect the smart home devices you own.
1. Use strong, unique passwords for each device. And store them in a password manager so that you don’t forget them. For help choosing a password manager, see our comprehensive password manager ratings.
2. Use two-factor authentication, if available, on all your devices. This feature sends a second, temporary passcode to you via text, email, phone call, or an authentication app to verify that it’s you trying to log in to a device’s app or site.
3. Enable automatic updates on all devices that support it (including your WiFi router). “There is no perfect smart device that is secure forever,” says Cody Feng, CR’s test engineer for privacy and security. “Automatic updates can shorten the amount of time that devices remain vulnerable to unpatched security flaws.”
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