vicjagsingh:
Other than the lock which I know it is a local connection… My concern is security… I don’t want to worry about lock randomly opening.
What’s your opinion about the other devices? Is it wise to use VPN?
The lock may randomly open because the smartthings cloud mistakenly sent it an instruction to do so. VPN won’t protect against that. ( this is rare, but does happen. It happened to me last November and I ended up moving my lock off of SmartThings after support was unable to find a solution.)
I have a Schlage Z-wave lever style lock and only come in and out of it using user codes. It’s a door used by multiple parties including our upstairs neighbors and dog walker/cat sitter. Everyone uses a different code. The door is supposed to lock after each code is used and it does whenever I am paying attention.
The thing is, I often come home or am leaving to find the door unlocked. I am nearly certain no one is manually pressing the unlock button inside. What else could be happening?
Personally, I think VPN is always a good idea, so if you have it, I would use it. But that’s just me. You’ll find detailed discussion of security issues in the following thread started by @slagle
Hello everyone!
I wanted to put together a post that I think will help educate people on how to secure their home network in the IoT world. Some of you may ask why I think this post may be necessary. Here’s the deal, most of the big IoT companies take security very seriously, and SmartThings recently came out on top as far as security goes with smart home devices (Congrats STs!!)
Your network security is only secure as the weakest point of entry. So although SmartThings, and others, take the security of their product seriously, if you do not take the security of your own network as seriously your network can be vulnerable.
Keeping your network secure from 99% of the world is relatively easy with a few simple steps. I will go over some of the things you can do to secure your home netw…
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