The increasingly connected home of today be it your connected thermometer, refrigerator, vacuum (yes remember Roomba from iRobot), Alexa etc. needs to encompass the security of these systems as well. Security in the cloud offers a ton of native services. They are almost always accessible via API (application programming interfaces) to the outside world. The security paradigm needs to be reoriented as well. In a nutshell, security needs to include both perimeter security as well as API security.”]