My proposed project is the completion of my dissertation. The project investigates the intersections between slavery and household security. Alongside an archaeological focus on Pompeii, I also consider literary and epigraphic evidence for enslaved people as connected to security including their roles as guards, as security risks, and as valuable possessions of their enslavers. I have already completed two chapters focusing on the complex figure of the doorkeeper, a member of the household responsible for controlling access to the house who was usually enslaved. The remaining parts of my dissertation include an analysis of locks and keys including a typology as well as consideration of their spatial distribution in houses. In the project as a whole, I show the way that the security measures utilized in Pompeian houses were both necessitated by slavery and relied upon enslaved labor, while also considering how security concerns affected enslaved people’s daily lives.