“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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