Keep Your Family Healthy and Safe: The 5D’s of Home Security

You spend a lot of time and effort to give your family the very best. Therefore, your home’s security should be at the forefront of your mind to ensure that they are free from burglars, intruders, or any potential harm.

Home security is a psychological game between you and the burglar—whoever flinches first loses. Burglars do the minimum and won’t risk their lives to invade a home with a comprehensive security strategy. Here are the 5D’s to ensure that your home is safe is secure:

Deter

Burglars won’t bother to break into a home that already seems secure. To effectively deter them, you need to make your house as an “undesirable” as possible.

Burglars will often check these three boxes before they commit to breaking into your home:

• Security signage
• Vehicles in the driveway
• A dog in the yard

If you have any of the three, the bad guy will target another home.

Detect

Criminals who aren’t deterred and are ambitious to harm you and your family must be dealt with. To deal with them, you need to understand they’re there, and all that is left is to discover them.

You can use low-tech, high-tech, or a combination of both methods to alert you of their presence. Low tech methods include using a dog since it can bark in case of an intruder, or trimming plants away from your home to deny the bad guy potential hiding places. High-tech methods include alarm systems, CCTV cameras, and motion detection light.

Delay

A determined criminal will surpass all the security measures to reach your family and harm them. The general rule of thumb at this point is to delay them the longest time possible and buy time until help arrives or until you prepare yourself for defense.

You can delay them by ensuring that your windows are always locked and reinforcing your door to increase the time it takes them to enter. While you might dismiss this as some simple steps, they are crucial in giving you enough time to act before the burglar gets their way into your house.

Defend

Physically defending your house should be the last resort! It is a decision you and your family should make long before anything bad happens, and you should only use it when push comes to shove. You also need to understand that injuries may happen during defense, so think twice before confronting anyone.

Deny

You need to deny criminals any access to your safe haven. In the middle ages, this was easily accomplished by moats, tall stones, and draw bridges. However, in today’s world, you can deny access by using thorny bushes, deadbolt locks, reinforced doors, and secured windows.

At Kwikset, we bring you various security options to help you deny access by providing high-end locks that deter, delay, and eventually deny access to your home. Feel free to check them out today and keep yourself from the bad guys!