Home Security?

With the ubiquity of WiFi in American households, consumers are gaining savviness for connecting more of their lives to the online world.

Products such as thermostats, lighting, and home appliances will continue to gain footholds in US homes. These new-found conveniences also bring with them new vulnerabilities as recently experienced by the distributed denial of service attacl on Dyn where a botnet of commandeered devices, some of which were WiFi-enabled household devices, brought down access to major sites such as Twitter, PayPal, and Reddit. Hopefully, manufacturers will take security seriously and support their products for a lot longer than the warranty period.

Users will also have to be diligent about doing their share to secure their networks.