Conclusion

The Digital Standard is extremely valuable as a consumer-focused tool for evaluating IoT privacy and security. Its attempt to encourage manufacturers to produce better products, while educating users about the devices they use, is unique among security standards, as is its open-source nature, and the opportunities it offers for external actors to contribute to developing and maturing the standard itself. Through testing various products, and the design of our own testing handbook, we developed this set of recommendations and appreciate this opportunity to engage in the standards-setting process. The aim of this project is to create tools that will help other organizations, researchers, and consumers conduct their own testing, and we make our seven recommendations with that goal in mind.