Abstract This article presents a guide to good practices around internet safety of things for devices that get involved with smart homes. It is chosen to use a quantitative methodology of descriptive approach, taking into account that it is a topic that is in incursion and it is necessary to begin to establish the elements that are going to incorporate in the guide. The starting point is a study of the internet layers of things, the open web application security project and the components that make up the guide. This research allows to make a contribution with an analysis of the future of the internet of things and to expose the considerations on the security that involve these devices, taking as guide the tools, documents and information that the project proposes for the development of systems of high quality in security.