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Samsung Jet Bot AI+ vs. iRoomba Roomba S9+

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When we think of robot vacuums, one name that comes to mind is Roomba. Hailed as one of the reliable O.G. brands of the bot vac marketplace, iRobot’s cutting-edge house cleaners are cool to look at, easy to operate, and convenient to customize — whether you’re looking to build a weekly vacuuming schedule or want to fire it up for a fast sweep.

With robot vacs being available for years now, there’s plenty of competition. In fact, a surface-level skimming of Amazon’s listed robot vacs will pull hundreds of results. While a number of these foes can barely touch the performance and value of the cherished Roomba, one company that is always looking to claim more real estate in the home is Samsung. From TVs and refrigerators to smart home controls, Samsung makes every effort to gain notoriety in whatever sector they’re designing products for, and their robot vacuums are no exception.

Today, we’ll be pitting Samsung’s flagship robot vac, the Jet Bot AI+, against the undefeated champion of sentient vacuuming, the iRobot Roomba S9+. We are weighing in on criteria like design, features, and price.

Design

The Samsung Jet Bot AI+ and charging station.

Samsung Jet Bot AI+

The Samsung Jet Bot AI+ has one of the most attention-grabbing designs that we’ve seen in a robot vac. Where the company’s mid-tier and entry-level units opt for a traditional puck-shaped vac aesthetic, the Jet Bot AI+ features two separate chassis segments — the rounded main housing with a built-in camera, sensors, and buttons, and a distinctive, front-facing tumbler section with brush and suction components housed underneath. Speaking solely of appearance, the Jet Bot looks formidable, kind of like a cross between an industrial cleaner and a military-grade infiltrator.

Like the rest of the Jet Bot lineup, Samsung’s color scheme of choice is a white shell with silver trimmings paired with a towering white clean station for charging and dirt removal. The bot/dock combo isn’t exactly overbearing, but the “no-nonsense” fighter-bot look may not mesh well with certain home decor.

The Samsung Jet Bot AI+.

iRobot Roomba S9+

Then there’s the D-shaped chassis of iRobot’s Roomba S9+. The company claims that by trading the common puck aesthetic for the shell design of…

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The Worldwide Bot Security Industry is Expected to Reach $983 Million by 2026

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DUBLIN, July 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The “Bot Security Market by Component (Standalone Solution, Services), Security Type (Web, Mobile, API), Deployment Mode, Organization Size, Vertical (Retail & E-commerce, Media and Entertainment, Travel and Hospitality) and Region – Global Forecast to 2026” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

The global bot security market size is projected to grow from USD 408 million in 2021 to USD 983 million by 2026, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 19.2% during the forecast period.

Major driving factors for the bot security market include rise in bad bot traffic; increasing sophistication of botnet attacks and loss of revenues for organizations; shift of traffic from mobile to web; and surge in the use of APIs across businesses such as eCommerce, travel, gaming, etc.

By component, the services segment to register the highest growth rate during the forecast period.

The services segment includes various services that are required to deploy, execute, and maintain the bot security platform in an organization. As the adoption of the bot security platform increases, the demand for these services is also expected to increase. Bot security can be provided through Managed Security Services (MSS) analysts who provide remote assistance and incident response to clients in case of suspicious activities. These services include training and education, and support and maintenance. As the adoption of the bot security platform increases, the demand for these services is also expected to soar. Bot security services ensure 24/7 protection against increasingly sophisticated architectures, SOCs manned by security experts, and quick incident response services. Bot security vendors offer customized subscriptions and professional services for threat intelligence, threat prevention, detection, and response to assist end-users in easy planning and deployment of bot security platforms.

By deployment mode, the cloud segment to register the highest growth rate during the forecast period.

Cloud-based bot security solutions provide scalability, efficiency, and 24/7 services to organizations. SaaS-based services offer a centralized service delivery…

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HUMAN BotGuard helps enterprise customers protect web and mobile apps from bot attacks

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HUMAN Security announced its newly-named BotGuard and a range of new features to further help enterprise customers defend their website and mobile applications from sophisticated bot attacks and fraud.

BotGuard is powered by the Human Verification Engine, which combines technical evidence, machine learning, and continuous adaptation to deliver “human or not” bot detection decisions with accuracy.

The Human Verification Engine uniquely verifies the humanity of 10 trillion interactions per week while also harnessing internet scale visibility and a decade of data to deliver continuously adaptive and mutually reinforcing protection to customers, including the largest internet platforms. In its report, The Forrester New Wave: Bot Management, Q1 2020, Forrester recognized that HUMAN “leads the pack with robust threat intelligence, attack detection and vision.”

“Enterprises find it increasingly difficult to defend websites and applications from sophisticated bots that can easily evade bot detection features in conventional security solutions that rely on behavioral monitoring or static lists, leaving your site and apps open to abuse,” said Mike Aiello, Chief Product Officer at HUMAN. “The features we’re launching today as part of the newly named BotGuard further enhance our solution’s best-in-class accuracy and manageability to help organizations protect their web and mobile experiences.”

“We’re hyper-focused on ensuring rich digital interactions with customers regardless of how often they’re traveling. Sophisticated bad bots get in the way, wasting resources meant for engaging our customers,” said Neil Haskins, Head of Group IT Security, Seera. “With HUMAN, we were able to identify the sophisticated bot traffic threatening multiple brands’ account log-in and registration experiences and get deeper insights to stay ahead of threats. We like diverting investments from bad bot traffic and the bad actors behind it to our real human customers.”

“Protecting our customers from automated fraud and abuse is key to ensuring a safe and trusted digital customer experience, which is key to our core business and growth strategy,” said the Chief Product…

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Why Is Twitter Verifying These Bot Accounts on Its Site?

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Questions have been raised over Twitter’s verification process after a handful of suspicious accounts were seen with blue checkmarks.

In a tweet thread on Sunday, Twitter user Conspirador Norteño, a data scientist focused on disinformation, highlighted six newly-created accounts that had all been verified.

While it’s common for malicious actors to hack into already-verified accounts, the six users had all been created just 26 days ago. Not only that, the accounts shared nearly all the same followers and had not made a single tweet.

The profile pictures for two of the accounts even appeared to be stock images, while others seem to have been created with artificial intelligence. Dozens of the accounts’ followers looked the same as well, using computer-generated photos of humans and cats for their profiles.

Although the majority of the accounts and their followers had not tweeted, several had. Conspirador Norteño noted that of the handful that had made tweets, nearly all of the content was related to automated Korean spam.

In a statement to the Daily Dot, Twitter confirmed that it had inadvertently verified the “inauthentic” accounts:

“We mistakenly approved the verification applications of a small number of inauthentic (fake) accounts.,” a Twitter spokesperson said. “We have now permanently suspended the accounts in question, and removed their verified badge, under our platform manipulation and spam policy.”

While questions remain, Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former chief security officer, suggested that the verification could have been an inside job.

“You might have a malicious or bribed insider,” Stamos tweeted. “Something similar happened at IG (paid off by spammers, in that case).”

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