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Cisco has had a bunch of boneheaded security issues "recently" (last 2 years or so, by my casual observations). A quick Google search will find several such examples.

See for example:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/stop_us_if_youve_he...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/26/cisco_elastic_servi...

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Cisco has 800,000 customers and thousands of active products in the market. I think Cisco does an exemplary job on how it handles security both proactively: in design, in development, in production, and in response to disclosures and discoveries. Same with Microsoft, and the other few companies on the planet who operate at this scale.

I think it's easy to find our mistakes, but keep in mind our corporate culture is to shine a light as honestly and transparently as possible on security issues, and we strive to err on the side of caution and communication.

(I work for Cisco)

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