What is Mender

The authors were presented with the task of reviewing a product by Zipato, which has a sizable user base (20,000 households by Zipato according to an article from TechCrunch). The Cyber-Living team is assessing products in the smart home and cybersecurity realms to help consumers make more informed choices. This is the first part of their risk assessment series on Zipato's smart home solutions. It also expands upon existing reporting by other security researchers. Two articles were found most informative out of what is out there for similar products by Zipato. Some of these articles have appeared multiple times because they were picked up by news sites. They often refer themselves to other researchers' discoveries. Part 2 and 3 are for education and research particularly focusing on firmware update vulnerabilities and possibilities of man-in-the-middle attacks that exploit devices. That will be the authors' contribution to the work. They will review other teams in this first part.