Friday, August 27, 1993

Re: Cisco backdoor? (RISKS-14.87,88,89) I just spoke to Al, and found out what the story was. We hired a subcontractor and part of his deal with us is that we provide them access to the Internet through cisco's corporate network. Since we have a relationship and our networks are physically tied together, the routers are specifically configured to allow greater access between our site and theirs (at their request). There was absolutely positively no "back door." Al never actually performed any tests with routers where he knew the configuration, and I would toss the entire thing up to some miscommunication. [Paul Traina via risks-digest Volume 15, Issue 01] 18:37 # G!