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A routine Nmap scan against a Cisco wireless LAN controller caused a full outage of a college’s Wi-Fi network. The issue was later confirmed as a denial-of-service vulnerability and patched.
Even standard security testing techniques can trigger real outages when systems have hidden weaknesses. In modern environments—especially IoT systems spanning devices, apps, and cloud services—the blast radius can be even larger. Testing “safely” is not always straightforward.
When you test live systems, are you confident you understand what might break—or are you discovering it in real time?
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