90% of consumers aren’t confident about the security of their IoT devices. Frankly, who can blame them? IoT devices have a long history of exploitable weaknesses and security issues. Matter, a new industry standard backed by Amazon, Google, and other industry titans, aims to change that once and for all

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a set of articles on Matter (or what’s also sometimes called the Matter IoT standard, Project Matter, Matter Protocol, and Matter Smart Home standard). Stay tuned in the coming weeks to learn more about the new industry standard that’s poised to revolutionize the IoT industry.

IoT home devices aim to make consumers’ lives easier — the whole point of having an Alexa or other “smart” devices is to simplify tasks and improve your life. But if a device doesn’t work with other devices in your home, is cumbersome to use or leaves your home network vulnerable to cyber attacks, it achieves the opposite — adding problems and security risks to your life.

That’s exactly why Google, Amazon, Apple, and other IoT giants have created the Matter protocol. This new universal Standard is designed to make it easier to connect and set up IoT devices, while also ensuring that every device is properly secured against potential attacks. It’s a standard that’s going to start with IoT smart devices for the home and it’s expected to launch this fall (just in time for Matter-certified devices to hit the shelves in time for the 2022 holiday season).

But what exactly is Project Matter? Let’s take a deeper look at the Matter Iot Standard and why we think it will revolutionize the connected device industry.

Let’s hash it out.

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