Cisco Router Hack Inspires New Patching Religion 48
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."
Re:SLA? (Score:4, Informative)
They do. You'll able to use every minor release in your release train free of charge, and they'll be developed for your platform until the product reaches end of life. You don't pay for patches.
Re:SLA? - They do. (Score:2, Informative)
If there is a security vulnerability in your IOS, call Cisco, say you have no support contract and they will give you the latest patch at your release level for nothing (or an upgraded release if there is no patch at your level).
Re:getting the patches is the problem (Score:3, Informative)
If you manage to get hold of the actual Cisco vulnerability statement, it contains information about how to request a patched version even if you don't have a service contract.
Re:Guidelines = Religion? (Score:3, Informative)
>Hell, I'll go so far as to say that religion serves most people better in making their way in the world than all the over-prescribed anti-depressants, etc.
Whenever I see a defense of religion I see an attack on psychiatry. I think people who are clinging to beliefs out of desperation and ignorance as opposed to choice and for betterment are truly threatened by the fact the therapy has become a secular "religion." You can learn to cope without belief in the invisible man in the sky. The fact that secular people are doing this and that it works is threatening their worldview, thus the jabs at SSRIs (which truly help people) and other childish attacks.