With the prospect of trips out and holidays finally on the cards, over the next few weeks many of us will be leaving our houses unattended for the first time in months. So now is the time to think about making your home a bit more secure. In addition to the basics, there is a range of DIY tech that may help to deter would-be intruders and allow you to keep an eye on your home from almost anywhere in the world. From the simple video doorbell to a fully automated light show, here is a quick guide to what is available, plus some tips from police and insurers to help you keep burglars at bay. Simple to install, easy to use and immediately obvious to potential intruders, video doorbells are a popular home security option.

Scalable cognitive solutions that meet these objectives must leverage machine learning to manage the vast amount of data that is produced by security sensors. Security expertise, data science and the math behind machine learning are all essential to developing the complex mechanisms, timing and features of machine learning systems. Thus, taking the right action by creating security tactics enabled by machine learning is dependent on three things: resources, confidence in the science, and actionability. In this paper, Jon Ramsey, Secureworks CTO, provides his vision of Machine Learning and how these three things above can enable "Smart Security" to benefit CIOs and businesses.