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Frank Teruel's Rules for Securing a Robot Vacuum

Robot vacuum cleaning a living room floor

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ZDNET covered the FCC's new ban on foreign-made robot vacuums and other autonomous robots, and asked security experts what current owners should do with the devices they already have. Frank Teruel, chief operating officer at Arkose Labs, recommended putting robot vacuums on a segmented guest or IoT network, reviewing what permissions the companion app actually has, and finding out whether the manufacturer commits to a support window in writing.

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