Re: Network Devices

Biswas, Proneet wrote:
> Hi ,
>   Just picking up a thread of thought.. In the security community, we
> see this increase in the number of devices which say they are IDS/IPS or
> Layer 7 firewall stuff.. and hackers I am sure take the pains to bypass
> these devices. But as part of this forum, are there folks who actually
> figure out vulnerabilities in these devices which can potentially cause
> loss of network connectivity. Many of them use web-interfaces, why is it
> we feel confident that these webservers are secure.
> 
> Thanks.

We don't feel confident that they are secure, since they are most often 
based on common operating systems (usually a BSD). So vulnerabilities 
affecting the core OS can often be exploited on the device based on that
OS. Similarly if they have a web interface it's often based on some 
piece of existing software.


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