Cisco Pledges More Security in Network Equipment

Company to Warn Customers, Disable Insecure Options by Default David Perera (@daveperera) , Greg Sirico • November 20, 2025

Networking giant Cisco is vowing to step up warnings to customers who insecurely configure its equipment. The manufacturer's devices have been at the forefront of hacking campaigns launched by Chinese nation-state threat actors against telecoms, often resulting in wide-ranging and embarrassing breaches.

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Cisco has stressed that Chinese hackers relied heavily on known vulnerabilities when breaking into telecom providers in the United States and elsewhere, but the company has nonetheless racked two-years-worth of post-mortem analyses pointing to its routers as a hacker pathway in major incidents (see: Feds Identify Ninth Telecom Victim in Salt Typhoon Hack).

The company announced Thursday that henceforth under the banner of "Resilient Infrastructure," it will be "simplifying our offerings so ...