Tsk, tsk, Cisco,
how could you do that ?
Cisco's turned up vulnerabilities in automation software that open the door to denial-of-service and limited access to devices. The company's Autonomic Network Infrastructure (ANI) feature in IOS provides self-management for various IPv6-supporting routers and Ethernet switches. One of the ANI features is to remove the need …
"how could you do that ?"
They answered that one two days ago: http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/24/the_final_horror_networks_without_sysadmins/
Alvaro Retana said during the interview:
"The other part is that really good security and operations don't necessarily see each other in the eye. If I do really good security, operations will be harder.
And people are in this to make money – if you're a service provider you're in this to make money."