The Smart Home Cybersecurity Paradox: Is Your Raspberry Pi Secure Enough to Protect against Attacks? A $35 computer can be a lifesaver or a life-threatener to your smart home and new Pakistani and other research indicates that the difference is reduced to the way you establish it.

Abstract

This paper examines the dual use of the Raspberry Pi in terms of smart homes' cyber security issues in the fast-developing tech ecosystem of Pakistan. On one hand, a well-configured Raspberry Pi may successfully protect the network from 99.9% of cyber security threats, such as the brute force attacks, DoS attacks, malware, among other things, through the utilization of software, such as MISP, and Suricata. On the other hand, a weakly protected Raspberry Pi becomes itself a vulnerability that hackers easily exploit. This paper focuses on such major findings of scientific research as the low-performance impact of reliable encryption technology (for example, DSEKP), physical access to computers, and the absence of secure booting.