Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit

CEO says buyers are moving fast and shuffling budgets to replace old boxen

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says “The Mythos Effect” will see customers scour their networks for unsupported devices and replace them ASAP.

Mythos is Anthropic’s bug-finding model and has proven so effective that vendors and open source projects are now finding more security flaws and pushing more patches.

Speaking on Cisco’s Q4 earnings call yesterday, Robbins said customers he speaks to are aware of Mythos, and fearful that the model and others like it will mean that unsupported devices become too risky to operate once patches stop flowing.

“I had one of my CEO friends who runs a major manufacturer in the US … their team called early on in the Mythos wave and just said: ‘Hey, listen, we got to get some of this stuff that is past LDOS’ [last day of support].”

Robbins said other...

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