Cisco Router Hack Inspires New Patching Religion

ancientribe writes "The dirty little secret about patching routers is that many enterprises don't bother — for fear of the fallout any changes to their Cisco router software could have on the rest of their infrastructure. But the recent discovery of a way to easily hack these devices has put pressure on organizations to change their ways and patch. This article in Dark Reading gives tips on how to patch without taking down the network, including input from Cisco's own director of IT on how Cisco itself handles router patching."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Hope my boss doesn't hear of this and ask me how we're doing on patching the routing equipment. It's always a nervous wait as the stuff comes back up, we tend to block things at the perimeter and via ACLs.