Home Securiy Methodology Vacation Guide (HSM)  by Pete Herzog
Homes are both an asset and a form of protection for our assets.
They are unique in that they have both a very real and a
personal (nostalgic) value. Securing our homes and making them
safe for the ones we share it with is often more difficult than
it should be. We want to live in a secure home but we don't want
to feel like we live in a prison. Yet we also leave our homes
and not only expect them to be the same when we return but to
have been unviolated in any way. Because even if nothing has
been stolen or destroyed, we are still uneasy with the idea that
someone had trespassed at all. So we want to make sure that our
house can be converted into a fortress for our belongings, a
safe haven for any family members staying behind, and a private
refuge for us to return to. To do this, we need to know security
and of all the things we can do to secure our homes.   This
guide follows the Open Source Security Testing methodology
OSSTMM). In that method