Analysis of security attacks in a smart home networks

This paper presents an analytical review about smart home network, their working and technologies from a security standpoint. It highlights various security flaws in a different smart home networks. It clearly explain, why a smart home is such an easy target for the attackers, it also discuss the role of interfaces in a smart home network by describing the scenario in which smart home network can be easily trapped. It also explains various types of home automation techniques along with the attacks which are quite more vulnerable to the smart home networks. As there of now there are many vulnerabilities which are exploiting the smart home network but no strong defensive mechanism has been developed till yet. It also indicates the basic components of a smart home network and the possible attacks which can be happen on a smart home networks.

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