Keeping our homes safe and sound has only become easier with the advancement of technology. It's a lot easier to secure our homes now, which is a relief, particularly around the holidays. Here are a few ways that technology advancement has helped to secure our homes. Smart doorbells, which helps protect parcels left on your doorstep. Remote home monitoring makes it easier to secure your home even from afar. Emergency…

When moving to a new neighborhood, you should look into how safe it is, especially if you have a family or a lot of items that you don't want stolen (who does, though?). Of course, even the safe neighborhoods have home invaders flock to them, especially around the holidays. In a lot of ways, unfortunately, that's become inevitable. When you want to see how safe your neighborhood is, though, there…

When determining a home security system, the security cameras and keypads aren't the only aspect you want to take into account. Unsurprisingly, doors are pretty important in the home security mix. Especially because many intruders come in through the front door. Distressed mahogany front door: Not only does this door look incredibly cool, rustic, and impressive, but it's also very thick and strong. It's pretty much guaranteed to protect from…

You may think that your big screen TV might be the target of a robber's eyes, but you'd actually be wrong with that assumption. Even though these aren't the apple(s) of your eye, they might entice a robber. Bicycle Jewelry Cash (maybe this one is a bit obvious, though) Guns Golf equipment Power tools Phones and iPods Video game systems (the newer the better, of course) Watches These are the items…

The SimpliSafe keypad is notable since it was created to stand apart from competing brands. One of the big ways that this keypad is different is that it's protected from burglars who may try to smash it before a signal is sent out. They can smash it as much as they want, but the product will send out an alarm signal regardless. In fact, the keypad is designed to trick…

As helpful as home alarms are, there are absolutely moments when you may want to turn it off, or at least put it on for only some sections of your home. What if you want to keep a window or two open in your home throughout the day and night, but don't want to trigger your alarm constantly? Or you want to keep your alarm on, but have a pet…

Protecting your home is obviously important, but especially so around the holidays when we find ourselves even more vulnerable. Newly opened presents surrounding us, holiday cheer abounding--it's easy to be distracted, and that's when many robbers make moves to invade a home. Here are a few of the top security systems from 2016 that you might want to look into installing in your own home. Frontpoint is highly recommended by those who…