The Inhabitant as an IoT Security Factor in a Smart Home

Abstract

The paper presents the importance of the residents in a smart home, the decisions and behavior they have in relation to smart devices inside or outside the IoT network. Ensuring the security of the home is given by several factors, including the people who manage and make decisions about what happens in the home. There are sensitive data, such as passwords, data about people, emails, wireless, sensors that in a secure system, but through a wrong management, can be exposed to different types of attacks from the outside. Even if technology is currently evolving at a fast pace, it is important that the inhabitants are also responsible and properly use all the tools they own so that there are no leaks of information, even more so in terms of privacy. People who live and coexist in a smart home influence the security of the home in a voluntary or involuntary way by using the existing smart devices properly or not.