Can machine learning help secure smart homes? - Computer Business Review

Smart devices have shown that they are vulnerable to security flaws in the past, so how do we secure ourselves as we move towards smart homes? Across the world Smart homes are on the rise, with the IoT creating new technological solutions to our everyday problems. As companies like Google and Amazon roll out their smart speakers, collating our devices and apps into easily manageable hubs, smart homes will surely only increase in popularity. According to ABI Research, by 2020 there will be 40.9 billion active wireless connected devices and this will largely be non-hub devices like sensors. IDC forecasts that by 2020 the worldwide market for IoT will surpass $7 trillion. The growth of these systems in the recent and coming years is astronomical but with all of our personal data uploaded into nebulous'cloud' systems how safe are we and how safe are our homes?