Student evades Cisco NAC; Cisco’s wireless network chief speaks out

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Apr 30, 20072 mins

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Student evades Cisco NAC, gets suspended, 04/26/07: A default setting in Cisco NAC gear allowed a University of Portland student to dodge a security scan by Cisco’s NAC software agent and get on the school network. The exploit was the work of a sophomore who was suspended for doing it, and further use of the weakness has been blocked by changing a setting on the Cisco Clean Access box involved, according to Cisco.

Cisco watchers warn of enterprise slowdown, service provider pressure, 04/26/07: Reports from two stock analysts this week point to a possible slowdown in Cisco’s core enterprise business, and pressure for Cisco to meet service provider sales goals – trends which could reflect harder times overall in the IT and networking markets.

Cisco’s wireless network chief speaks out, sort of, 04/26/07: We reached out and touched Cisco’s Brett Galloway on his cell phone this week while he was commuting to work. A founder of wireless LAN switch pioneer Airespace, he’s now the vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit… considerably enriched as a result of Cisco’s $450 million acquisition of Airespace in 2005.

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