Thanks for the smartlock heads-up. I'm building me house, may have mentioned before been 5 years so far, it's 8" concrete block , grouted every 4 feet w/ pea gravel in th other core. Steelcase commercial doorframes & doors. frames are concrete filled. What am I missing? Windows are plain double glazed but I'm looking at some sort of decorative steel screening.
Where is Revdisk?! He is the expert on a lot of this.
Doors- you did great on the doors- commercial steel doors are tough, and that jamb is not going to be pried apart. make sure the locking system is strong- a high security deadbolt Abloy, etc will help a lot and they can be keyed selective so you can loan someone a key to feed the velocirapor and still have other rooms locked. A bar would be good to spread the load on the bolt.
You do have a solid secure bedroom door with deadbolt, yes? One more layer for when you are most vulnerable-sleeping. It takes a bit to wake up and get full command, and another ten or twenty seconds could buy a life.
Residential doors with a series of perimeter bolts like a safe door are available, I have seen them in Europe, but do not know about a domestic supplier. My guess is the market is still small here.
Make sure you can get out of the bedroom window from the inside. A secondary set of interior lexan sliding window covers will add some resistance. It can obscured (frosted, etc) if you want light and privacy. Or go full 3Form or Lumicore for the glazing-they make the cool plastics with leaves etc embedded. Slide them in a strong track secured to the wall core. Steel decorative shutters are good way to allow ventilation and have the house secure also- very standard in warm crime ridden places like california.
Window security film is pretty effective. I replaced some windows and decided to do an quick test. 8 mil film was good for several throws of a brick at 15 feet. And even after it broke though, there was just a ragged hole, not an opening big enough to get through. The most vulnerable windows are those next to a door, or within reaching distance of a wire hook. The secondary benefit of film is if there is some disaster,earthquake or other, it contains the shards.
I have read that some hurricane prone states have a very tough window code, those windows would be interesting to examine.
Make sure the garage doors have a shield at the top to guard the release mechanism, so a hook cannot be inserted at the top and used to grab the rope/latch.
Use gravel on the drive, it is loud.
Fence if you can.
Use a driveway gate so interlopers will have to either walk, or push it open or disable it- in any case, once a person is beyond the gate, and you do not know them, they have leapt up the scale to "potentially hostile"- they can no longer pretend to be just casual wanderers. Help define a reaction strategy. This may not sound like much, but in many attacks, the hardest thing for people to realize is the fact they ARE under attack- they feel something is "wrong", but don't have time or space to quantify it.
You will be glad of a fence and gate every time you leave the house. it is not a failsafe, but it makes it harder to be burgled.
Security is a onion- a layered approach. Think of it as parasitic drag- aka a series of stumbling blocks-the miscreants day should just be a low grade hassle where all the attempts are a pita. Like getting up late to go to work Monday, but the coffee maker broke and leaked grounds all over the floor, and by the time you got it cleaned up and went out to the car and found out you had a flat and the jack was left in the garage and you house keys got left on the counter.... that kind of day. IMO, it is best if it is not too overt- a ten foot wall topped with wire in an otherwise normal neighborhood will get a lot of questions asked. You don't want questions. Questions imply answers.
I don't know much about alarms, likely an exterior and interior 120 db horn would do as good as anything to get them out of the house. The standard monitored alarm systems seem to have an extremely high rate of false alarms, and the police usually show up late if at all.
Cameras are good, but suspect they are most useful as a situational awareness device- being able to pull up a bunch of cameras on the phone while moving around the house/exterior could be a lifesaver. Or while laying in bed to find out if the motion light went on because of a stray cat or a bear or a human prowler. As far as identifying individuals for prosecution or tracking? doubtful-