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Cisco Files Suit to Gag Researcher, Security Conference (eWeek)Cisco Files Suit to Gag Researcher, Security Conference (eWeek)Posted Jul 29, 2005 13:26 UTC (Fri) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)Parent article: Cisco Files Suit to Gag Researcher, Security Conference (eWeek)
What seems strange to me about this is that ISS is asking for the restraining order. I would assume that whatever information was "illegally obtained" was done as part of his job at ISS. So, his former employer is asking the government to shut him up for doing the job they were paying him to do?
This makes it look like ISS is just the marketing arm of Cisco.
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Not so strange Posted Jul 29, 2005 14:32 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] In fact, it might be more strange to see Cisco asking for it, if you see the issue from a cynical and rather twisted point of view.I think that taking the issues to the courts gives the issue much more publicity than just letting the conference go ahead. And publicity about insecurities in IOS is the last thing that Cisco should want. However, for ISS it is free advertising: "Look how good we are, first we discover the issue and then we protect the guys suffering from it, even if it means going after our own employee." Again, cynical and twisted but possible.
Not so strange Posted Jul 29, 2005 17:31 UTC (Fri) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] ISS has a legal obligation to pursue Lynn. They signed a non-disclosure agreement, and their employee violated it.
This will be bad for ISS no matter what. Who wants to hire a security firm that can't keep its collective mouth shut? In a perfect world, such a firm would be very popular: "We hired Bigmouth Consulting to study our router, and they haven't made a peep about it." In our world, managers are much too timid, and the credibility of security consultants is too little known and too hard to gauge.
score +4, funny Posted Aug 1, 2005 1:25 UTC (Mon) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link] > In a perfect world, such a firm would be very popular:> "We hired Bigmouth Consulting to study our router, and > they haven't made a peep about it."
tee hee hee
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