Your score in two minutes
Answer with what you know: choosing an answer takes you to the next question, and you can go back whenever you like. Under each question we explain the technical terms. At the end you will see your score out of 10 and what it means.
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Question 1 of 10
What type of front door do you have?
- Reinforced door
- a wooden door with one or two steel or metal sheets inside, plus reinforced hinges and lock. The frame is usually wooden, sometimes reinforced with an iron plate.
- Armoured door
- its internal structure is entirely steel: a box or chassis of steel profiles, with a steel sub-frame and frame and three or more anchoring points.
Is your cylinder a security cylinder, certified, or does it have modern features such as anti-bump, anti-drill, anti-pick or anti-snap?
- Certified
- tested by a laboratory to the UNE-EN 1303 standard, which grades cylinders by key security and resistance to attack, among other things.
- Anti-bump
- resists bumping, a technique that strikes a prepared key inside the cylinder to jolt the pins and turn it without the original key.
- Anti-pick
- makes it harder to manipulate the pins with picks, for example with specially shaped pins, side pins or complex key profiles.
- Anti-drill
- includes hardened steel parts that prevent the cylinder from being drilled through the pin area.
- Impressioning
- a technique that reproduces a key from the marks the mechanism leaves on a blank key. Cylinders resistant to this technique leave no useful marks.
- Anti-snap
- if someone tries to snap the cylinder, it breaks at a designed point on the outside and the part that operates the lock stays protected, so the door stays locked.
- Anti-extraction
- has internal reinforcements that stop the cylinder being pulled out of the lock with extraction tools.
Is the cylinder protected by a security escutcheon?
Is the escutcheon solid or hollow inside?
- Magnetic escutcheon
- a security escutcheon that keeps the cylinder keyhole covered; the cover only opens with a coded magnetic key, so the cylinder cannot be reached to tamper with it.
- Solid escutcheon
- a piece of hardened steel or alloy, with no hollow spaces, fixed from inside the door with through-bolts. It protects the cylinder against extraction and snapping.
- Decorative cover
- a decorative piece, usually hollow or made of thin sheet metal, that surrounds the cylinder. It improves the finish but offers no real protection.
How many anchoring points does the lock have?
- Anchoring point
- each bolt that comes out of the door and into the frame (at the side, top or bottom) when you lock it with the key. The more points, the better the force is spread if someone tries to lever the door.
Do you have an additional bolt?
Do you know how many copies of your key exist and who has them?
Do you have an alarm or smart devices such as a digital peephole or digital lock?
When you go out, do you lock the door with the key?
Are there other easy ways in (low windows, balcony, terrace, back door)?
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