Cisco Routers Again Take Hacker Spotlight
This software will give networking professionals like Fischbach a way to go back and look at the memory of a Cisco device and see if it has been tampered with. "I think there's a use for it," he said. "To me, it's part of the toolkit when you do forensics, but it's not the only tool you should rely on."
There are still major barriers for any Cisco attacker, Stewart says. For example, many attackers are reluctant to hack routers, because if they make a mistake, they knock out the entire network. "We sort of get a pass because no one wants to monkey with the infrastructure that they're using," he said. "It's like screwing up the freeway while you're trying to go to a different city. "
Though Cisco may not have any major security worries right now, Stewart is taking nothing for granted.
In fact, he also admitted that his company has been lucky so far and he knows that could change if enough people like Lindner start working on the problem. "We've got time," he said. "We've got the opportunity to be better, and we should continually invest on lowering the attack surface."
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