They make door bars for when you are home, but they won't help protect the door when you are away. My apartment door opens right to a closet. I have been eyeing one of the semi box trailer spreader bars that they use to keep freight from shifting, as a door between the closet wall and my door, but I haven't bought one yet... but in all actuality, if SHTF, I am gone from there. And this is actually a pretty quiet complex as far as criminal activity goes