[dba-Tech] Security

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi All:

I have not done significant work with Cisco equipment for a number of years now but at the time both Cisco and Juniper had a number of backdoors in their equipment and hence the high interest in the software solutions like PFSense. Today I checked to see if Cisco had improved it record... It has but not in a good way.

According, the following article, five new holes have been discovered in Cisco, in only five months. That record is atrocious. Conspiracy theorists have been claiming that the NSA have been demanding such backdoors but I think it is because the Cisco operating system is proprietary. They should get with the times and an open source solution forces everyone to keep honest and also ends up acquiring a significant amount of assistance from systems people around the world:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-accounts-software,37480.html

After the above article link, the post wouldn't be complete without a link to the discussion about the "Elephant in the room", the now ubiquitous 5G provider, Huawei  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng3rYBNc1yA

Jim