Cisco issues TLS advisory

Shareholders spanked John Chambers at Cisco's annual meeting; HP's Haas ready to spend (almost) as much as Cisco Cisco Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by Cisco Beefing up Email Security by Teaming with a Leader Improve your email security practices after watching this Webcast. Your email security choices extend beyond on-premise only solutions. Improve your anti-spam, visibility, content filtering and encryption support with hosted, hybrid and managed email security services. Click here to learn more. Spotlight Story Cisco issues TLS advisory While everyone was distracted by the HP/3Com deal, Cisco this week quietly issued a security advisory warning of an "industry-wide" vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that could impact any Cisco product that uses TLS or the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Read full story Related News: Shareholders spanked John Chambers at Cisco's annual meeting According to a Christian Brothers Investment Services notice, John Chambers has had some good paydays as the CEO of Cisco: Forbes Special Report on CEO Compensation published in May 2007 In a letter addressed to Cisco shareholders regarding Cisco's upcoming annual stockholder's meeting last week: Chambers and his Board of Dirctors urged Cisco shareholders to vote NO against a proposal... HP's Haas ready to spend (almost) as much as Cisco At the end of an interview we did this week with HP's Marius Haas on the $2.7 billion deal to buy 3Com, we asked, 'What would you say to competitors like Cisco?'"We're here to build a networking powerhouse and we're determined to make the investments to make that happen," was Haas's reply. Cisco MARS Timeline For better or worse, I've been following Cisco MARS for a long time. During that timeframe, Cisco promoted MARS as an essential component of its security strategy and then quietly backed away from these statements over time. I did a bit of research to piece together a timeline of the rise and fall of Cisco MARS. This timeline is in no way an exhaustive study of events, but I do think it illustrates... Cisco raised a big stink over losing a longtime customer's $3.5M network upgrade deal to HP Last summer I blogged about why HP ProCurve was dismantling Cisco's market share on a deal-by-deal basis. Interestingly enough, The Arizona Republic is reporting this week that Cisco raised a big stink over losing its longtime Arizona customer - Gilbert Public School's $3.5 million network upgrade to HP. According to the Republic, Cisco engineer - Kevin Murphy spoke at a Gilbert Public Schools board... 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