Smart Home Personal Assistants: A Security and Privacy Review

Understand

Smart Home Personal Assistants (SPA) are an emerging innovation that is changing the way in which home users interact with the technology.

• However, there are a number of elements that 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 paper presents an in-depth review of the security and privacy issues in SPA, 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.