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Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B

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Re: Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B

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Considering Cisco's history you will probably be able to use default credentials. I no longer would trust duo.

Trying to understand the downvotes to this comment. Cisco's been caught on multiple occasions including backdoors in their products.

Expressing skepticism of their stewardship of a security company is perfectly reasonable.

Re: Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B

#32
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We maintain this list of startups in Ann Arbor :) http://madeina2.com/

i love the simplicity of the site! would you consider open sourcing or selling a license so we can do a replica of it for our community? haha edit - i didn't scroll down. you guys rock! - https://github.com/MadeInA2/madeina2

Actually planning on a major update soon—lmk if you end up using it!

Re: Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B

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I really hope that Duo survives this. Cisco isn't necessarily known for handling acquisitions well...or software...but who knows. Maybe it's the shot in the arm that many companies will need to move to token based auth. Lot's of enterprise IT departments take Cisco's word as divine. I have had some bad experiences with Cisco the company, but the devices have always been really good even if they lag behind some of the…

Exactly. They ruined the mobile startup I worked at. I don't have a lot of love for Cisco at the moment.

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Re: Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B

#34

I really hope that Duo survives this. Cisco isn't necessarily known for handling acquisitions well...or software...but who knows. Maybe it's the shot in the arm that many companies will need to move to token based auth. Lot's of enterprise IT departments take Cisco's word as divine. I have had some bad experiences with Cisco the company, but the devices have always been really good even if they lag behind some of the…

In my experience Cisco leaves acquisition alone for at least couple of years providing its brand and sales force. If the acquisition isn't proving its worth and/or if revenue growth is staying flat then start packing your bags.

On the other hand I don't like how the acquisition's leadership gets to absorb other BU's which are targeting similar market space because there is a lot of time and effort that gets invested into integrating teams working culture and style. Also the incoming teams fight to keep their product portfolios alive which leads to sub-optimal decisions.

Re: Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B

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Duo's "Duo Push" push based second factor says it "can protect against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks" but I don't see how this type of push system can do that.

Does anybody have an explanation, or is this claim in fact entirely hollow and a real world MITM would work just fine but they're pretending to believe real users would do stuff like verify their IP address in a phone message?

Re: Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B

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Congratulations to my neighbors at Duo! That's a crazy amount of money and I hope that many Ann Arborites pay it forward in the tech scene from which Duo came. Lots of good tech in A2 in general - Deepfield acquired by Nokia, SkySpecs, Trove, FarmLogs (a YC startup), LLamasoft (my employer!), IBM is here, Toyota, Hyundai, a rapidly increasing number of medtech companies, and plenty of boutique consulting. It makes fo…

Work a bit next door to the Llamasoft office, it's a good spot. Really love A2 and glad to see the budding tech scene here really making it.

Re: Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B

#37

I really hope that Duo survives this. Cisco isn't necessarily known for handling acquisitions well...or software...but who knows. Maybe it's the shot in the arm that many companies will need to move to token based auth. Lot's of enterprise IT departments take Cisco's word as divine. I have had some bad experiences with Cisco the company, but the devices have always been really good even if they lag behind some of the…

Cisco follows a survival of the fittest strategy without really saying it or pushing teams/acquisitions to the death.

They provide all the resources you need, are very ethical and help your newly acquired team do your best. If your team (business unit as they call it) doesn't cut it after a few years, they start maneuvering those resources elsewhere. But they've always given every acquisition a fair chance to have their own story. See: Meraki, Insieme, Webex.

Cisco probably doesn't care if a few of their startup acquisitions don't work out.

Re: Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B

#39

Duo's "Duo Push" push based second factor says it "can protect against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks" but I don't see how this type of push system can do that. Does anybody have an explanation, or is this claim in fact entirely hollow and a real world MITM would work just fine but they're pretending to believe real users would do stuff like verify their IP address in a phone message?

you are right, it can't

Re: Cisco plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Duo Security for $2.35B

#40
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yo can we get some snacks in SJC15?

I'm supportive. Feel free to ping me and I'll see if I can give you some pointers of how to make some progress on that ask.

> Feel free to ping me and I'll see if I can give you some pointers of how to make some progress on that ask

Spoken like a true Cisco executive. You could have just said "I'm supportive but it's out of my hands."

Or perhaps, no reply at all.

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