Cisco Security Advisory

August 12, 2021

SECURITY

Grandson of FISMA: Why We Desperately Need New Cybersecurity Legislation from the 117th Congress

4 min read

Congress is considering reform of FISMA legislation, and this blog is intended to provide insights and recommendations and inform.

August 17, 2016

SECURITY

The Shadow Brokers EPICBANANA and EXTRABACON Exploits

10 min read

UPDATE April 20, 2017 Cisco continues to evaluate potential implications of the activities and information posted publicly by the Shadow Brokers Group.  We launched an investigation to analyze the new files posted on April 14th, 2017, and so far have not found any new vulnerabilities or exploits that affect Cisco products and services. Cisco PSIRT will […]

September 17, 2014

SECURITY

T-7 Days to Improved Cisco IOS Security

2 min read

The Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication will go live in seven days and this time we will have an important update to the Cisco IOS Software Checker to go along with it. As a reminder, the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) releases bundles of Cisco IOS Software Security Advisories on the […]

April 15, 2013

SECURITY

Cisco Security Disclosure: Help Us Help You!

2 min read

The decision to deliver the biannual (on the fourth Wednesday of every March and September) Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication brought with it many challenges, process changes, and—in the end—a format for Cisco Vulnerability Disclosure that we hope addresses at least some of your concerns. What we would like to get now is feedback from our customers on how the bundle delivery format has changed your lives (well, at least during working hours!), for better or for worse, when it comes to dealing with Cisco PSIRT security vulnerabilities identified in your Cisco IOS environment. The information you provide in this survey will help Cisco to continue to evolve our vulnerability disclosure process to address your challenges and concerns, just as we did back in 2008 when we listened to you and developed the Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory bundle process.