Home Security - Physical/Matrix/Astral, This is my usual setup Options

[JanessaVR]

This is my standard approach to home and Matrix security. I typically put all this on a single page to give to the GM (when I’m a player). This assumes my PC owns a suburban home, usually in a B Zone, and with the Quiet Neighborhood Lifestyle Quality (SR4 Runner’s Companion, p. 162). This is meant to be a SINner residence, not a shadowrunner safe house, and all of its security measures should be legal.

UPDATED on 03/22/2018

Physical Security

• The walls are brick/plascrete [Armor Rating 12], and the windows are armored glass [Armor Rating 8].
• Inside the outer walls (and floor and ceiling) is a wireless blocking layer (excepting the attic, which is deliberately left "undefended" against wireless access). The doors and window coverings also incorporate a wireless blocking layer.
• The inside walls (and floor and ceiling) are coated with a layer of IR-opaque paint.
• The armored windows are double-paned with a vacuum between the 2 panes. The outside is also coated with a film to interfere with laser microphones.
• The doors are also armored [Rating 8], and incorporate two separate locks. The first is a purely mechanical key lock. The second is a tamper-resistant maglock with both a keypad and a smartcard reader. Sensors (only) from these locks are connected to CHN #2 (below), to register when they open or close. These same sensors are on all the windows.
• The outside of the house and grounds are covered by multiple hidden cameras, each discretely connected to CHN #2 (below) with via a wired connection; these cameras also have night vision ability. The software monitoring them includes facial recognition ability and has a "white list" of approved residents and visitors on record.
• Wolverine Security (they of the shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later policy, see SR3 SOTA 2064, p. 73) have been contracted for security monitoring and response. Their monitoring software has been installed on CHN #2 (below). If any alarms trip, big guys with guns will show up shortly.

Matrix Security

• The house has multiple CHNs (SR4 Runner’s Companion, p. 150). On all of them, Analyze runs at all times to assist the Firewall in detecting hacking attempts.
• CHN #1 – Home Management: This device is not connected to the Matrix. All household devices and drones are slaved to it. Rating 6, except for Signal 1 (40 meter range).
• CHN #2 – Matrix Access: This device is connected to the Matrix (via a land line), but has no access to any devices inside the house, except for any commlinks present in the house. As the whole house is effectively a Faraday Cage, the only way to access the Matrix from within the house is to wirelessly connect a commlink to this device. Rating 6, except for Signal 1 (40 meter range).
• CHN #3 – Honey Trap: This one lives in the attic, which has been deliberately kept open to wireless access. A run-of-the-mill Rating 3 CHN (with standard wireless Matrix access) has been installed here, along with a fake setup of wireless home appliances and door locks slaved to it; these are just the ripped-out wireless components of a variety of household devices, all bolted to a large sheet of plywood and labeled appropriately. If any of these devices are ever accessed, it sends a silent alarm (via a wired connection) to CHN #2, alerting Wolverine Security's monitoring software that someone is trying to hack their way into the house.

Astral Security

• There are 3 wards encompassing the entire property, starting just inside the property line. All of these are Force 6.
• The 1st ward is a basic ward, 1 cm inside that is a Charged ward, and 1cm inside that is another standard ward. So from the outside and the inside, the ward is reasonably strong, but otherwise unremarkable, but it's got a nasty surprise in the middle if you penetrate the outer layer.
• There are 2 custom Quickened spells encompassing just the house. Both of these are Force 6.
• The 1st custom Quickened spell, "Wireless Barrier," blocks all wireless signals from crossing in either direction. Note: this does not encompass the attic, so as to not interfere with the Honey Trap.
• The 2nd custom Quickened spell, "Intrusion Alarm," will sound an alert if mini-drones poke their noses in to spy on the interior of the house or if someone drills holes in the walls to insert mini-cameras through them.
• The astral links to the wards and Quickened spells have been rerouted (multiple times each) into the metaplanes (see SR4 Street Magic, p. 132).
• Awakened Ivy (SR4 Street Magic, p. 126) has been encouraged to grow liberally all over the outside of the house.
• The entire property is aspected to my tradition (background count of 2), as per the Aspected Domain Lifestyle Quality in SR4 Runner's Companion, p. 161. This is a bit of a gamble - if any intruders aren't members of my tradition, they're hindered and I'm buffed. If they are members of my tradition, well, we're both buffed.

From the outside it appears to be a normal, middle-class home, but it’s really more of an armored bunker. Can anyone suggest any improvements?