Different people deploy them different ways … good or bad … The biggest problem I have with this is when a vendor doesn’t disclose this information and that a customer cannot choose to remove this option if the vendor insists on putting it in place.
> On Nov 13, 2016, at 4:35 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't exactly see the problem, especially with a PTP radio that should only > be accessible from within your network and possibly only from management > subnets/VLANs, too. If it's a public facing piece of equipment like a router, > then sure, I agree. > > On 11/13/2016 3:07 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: >> Totally disagree with this… we would never let a vendor into our network if >> there was a possibility of this. It puts our network at risk from their >> stupidity …. >> >> We aggressively look at this when new products are coming into the network - >> realizing that sometimes there’s no way to detect it but it’s a question we >> ask, tests that we run, and hope that our confidence in this being possible >> is low. >> >> >>> On Nov 13, 2016, at 11:59 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Yep. There are legitimate needs for the factory to have a backdoor >> >
