Cisco established in the year 1984 is an American multinational company and has now become the largest manufacturer of networking equipment across the globe. Owing to its superior technology and use of state of the art technological bent, Cisco has been able to stand up at this position. The products manufactured by Cisco’s product engineering service division find application in multinational companies, SMEs, and household.
Cisco is one of the pioneer companies that made some revolutionary changes when it comes to technology and delivers product engineering solutions to the world. The modern time is witnessing some great changes in the product engineering solutions and Cisco is making its share of contribution by delivering some avant-grade products in routing, mobility, unified communication, and security. Because of its technological prowess, Cisco enjoys the position of the market leader . The innovation has driven technological development forms an important reason for the success of Cisco.
What makes Cisco unique?
Most of the products developed by Cisco are in-house. Making use of the pool of talent that floods the premises of Cisco every day, it has given us some great and innovative products. It has one of the largest development & research budget dedicated to research on new technologies and improvement of the existing one, as per estimate, Cisco has allocated more than $4 billion towards research and development. Owing to its humility to partner with new firms, Cisco has been able to create a stable and high position in the world of technology.
Technological vulnerability:
The biggest drawback of any technology is its vulnerability, with the advancement in time and upsurge of new methodologies, the susceptibility of product engineering products have reduced to some extent but certain errors bound to happen and one such example surfaced when Cisco faced some denial to access issues with some of its products, the likes include the following :
- LAN Controller (WLC) software,
- Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software
- Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP) library
All these software find applicability in different products and the error could have halted the smooth functioning of the products also it was easy for an attacker to attack the system but as per Cisco, they have resolved the issues.
A closer analysis of the problem:
The WLC software was facing two denial issues like:
- This makes the software vulnerable to be attached by an unauthenticated hacker and can create buffer overflow condition. This can cause the device using this software to reload or execute an arbitrary code.
- The second flaw that cropped up was in how WLC handles the Bonjour traffic , it is a similar problem as the previous one and could cause the device running on this software to reload
- The third flaw was Does vulnerability which was seen in the Cisco AireOS . This software runs on few of the WLC devices of Cisco. Due to the fault, any authentic hacker could try to access the URL which is generally not accessible from the device’s management interface.
Of all the above-mentioned faults the WLC vulnerability is considered to be of high priority, Cisco has released a new batch of security patches for the flaws that affected many of its products run on WLC software.
Our Role:
Bytesplay comprehends with the fact issues like these are bound to happen in the world of technology and hence we have developed our own division of research and development that continuously works to deliver the best product engineering solutions. Our technology is adept and stays abreast with the lasts development in the world. Bytesplay delivers you the best product engineering services and in the case of faults like the ones mentioned above, we are always on our toes to resolve them in the minimum possible time. Get in touch with today to know more on this.