Travel dilemmas: High-tech and no-tech ways of making your home safer

Let me introduce you to a new player in home security. Because of her, would-be thieves think I have a dog and a baby and that I throw a lot of parties and play a lot of table tennis. You may know her. Her name is Alexa - yes, that Alexa - and she's one of a host of ways you can keep your home safer this summer.

Home security, said retired Los Angeles Police Department Detective Kevin Coffey, is about layers, not just about having a great security system, although that helps