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Voyence provides relief from Denial of Service attacks on Cisco devices running IOS

June 16, 2004 -- Today, Cisco announced that Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) contains vulnerabilities that cause Cisco devices running IOS to be susceptible to Denial of Service attacks. Network devices are continuously being compromised to set the stage for Denial of Service attacks. This leaves no enterprise, managed service provider, government agency or educational institution out of harm’s way. Using traditional network change processes, it will take from days to months of effort to deploy a fix to all vulnerable network devices. By then, intruders may have already attacked. VoyenceControl software thwarts intruders by centralizing and automating the update of operating system images to network devices—rapidly closing security holes.

Too often, organizations don’t know the current state and configuration of all the devices that are part of their network. In 2001, a Microsoft engineer improperly configured a router, preventing all access to Microsoft’s online services for over 22 hours. Why? There was no archive of the configuration and the staff had to reconstruct the router configuration from scratch. The VoyenceControl centralized repository of network device information (including the IP addresses, configuration settings, device operating system, and passwords) would have allowed them to immediately restore the previous configuration. This could have reduced the downtime to minutes and avoided the damage done to both customer relationships and company reputation.

To read more about what Voyence can do to help quickly overcome network outages, click here.

To read more about the BGP vulnerabilities in Cisco devices, click here.

About Voyence
Voyence is the leading provider of enterprise network configuration and change management solutions that automate critical change, compliance, and activation processes. The company’s solution, VoyenceControl helps organizations drive out operational costs, increase network availability, improve security, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. VoyenceControl is the only network configuration and change management solution, based on a multi-tiered architecture that can effectively manage tens of thousands of devices across heterogeneous networks. No other solution automates configuration management for more enterprise networks than VoyenceControl. For more information go to www.voyence.com.

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Michael Bunyard
Vice President
Voyence
972-759-4056
pressinfo@voyence.com

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