Hunting for backdoors in counterfeit Cisco devices
F-Secure’s investigation highlights challenges facing organizations that discover counterfeit components in their IT infrastructure.Helsinki, Finland – July 15, 2020: Hardware security specialists with cyber security provider F-Secure have published a report detailing their investigation into a pair of counterfeit network switches. The investigation, which concluded that the counterfeits were designed to bypass processes that authenticate system components, illustrates the security challenges posed by counterfeit hardware. F-Secure Consulting’s Hardware Security team investigated two