#shorts No one has been able to secure beacons from attacks as it is pretty tricky. Although many companies have developed strategies to protect their beacons from piggybacking and chip manufacturers’ defenses that protect a device from cracking, the efforts are worthless as they do not cover the entire data chain. Furthermore, no one has developed a mechanism that can protect devices from hijacking. As the beacon technology is brilliantly simple, you can use any of the two iBeacon security mechanisms below to efficiently secure your beacon from all kinds of attacks.