“Cisco Systems Inc.’s products will again come under scrutiny at this year’s Black Hat USA 2006 conference, which kicks off later this month in Las Vegas. Conference organizers say that 15 new exploits will be discussed at this year’s event and that two of them target NAC (Network Admission Control).”

Now if Cisco had any understanding of the importants of transparency with the technical community in this age of free information, they would break this news themselves and have solutions and mitigations to fix it. Instead they are too worried about the bottom line (the shareholders) which will take a hit anyway once the media gets a hold of it.

Mr. John Chambers, despite the security issues you’ve got great products, but get a clue about how to deal with these problems.

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Easily locate forums and newsgroups related to security. Why isn’t elamb.org on there? Oh, well.

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“A security geek is fired by executive management after the company is broken into by thieves and lose nearly $100k in equipment. The security geek had previously recommended safety measures that would have presented this, but they were shot down by those same executives! Who should have been fired in this story?”

Looks like they used this security guy as a scape goat to protect their own asses.  Doesn’t documentation mean anything?!  Ultimately, it is that company that will suffer from keeping incompetent and untrustworthy people (if that is the case.)

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