Smart Home Personal Assistants: A Security and Privacy Review

What is it about?

Smart Home Personal Assistants (SPA) are an emerging innovation that is changing the means by which home users interact with technology. However, several elements expose these systems to various risks: (i) the open nature of the voice channel they use, (ii) the complexity of their architecture, (iii) the AI features they rely on, and (iv) their use of a wide range of underlying technologies. This article presents an in-depth review of SPA’s security and privacy issues, categorizing the most important attack vectors and their countermeasures. Based on this, we discuss open research challenges that can help steer the community to tackle and address current security and privacy issues in SPA.

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Why is it important?

This article offers the first comprehensive review of existing security and privacy attacks and countermeasures in smart home personal assistants and presents a categorization for them