The connected home is now the enterprise’s soft underbelly
For years, security leaders have treated the home network as someone else’s problem. Employees plug in laptops, join video calls, and get on with their day, while the smart TV, the plug in the hallway, and the aging network storage box in the closet sit quietly in the background. New research from Bitdefender and NETGEAR suggests that is precisely what makes them valuable to attackers.
The 2026 IoT Security Landscape Report draws on telemetry from roughly 10.4 million smart homes worldwide, collected between January and September 2026. Bitdefender researchers analyzed 5.4 billion security events and 1.2 billion vulnerability observations. The headline finding is less about any single exploit than about the changing role of the device itself. A vulnerable gadget is no longer just a target. It can also act as a proxy that relays someone else’s traffic, a sensor that quietly gathers information, or a foothold from which an...
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