Full lock of network devices: Cisco enters new sanctions for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Next week, users from these countries will not be able to see equipment in their personal offices, and routers and access points set for work in the cloud will be locked on the company servers and they will stop sending a firmware update. According to Meraki, it fulfills the requirements of US law, along with its parent company - one of the largest suppliers of Cisco network equipment.

In October, the Russian system engineer Viktor Platov reported that the IT company Meraki, purchased by Cisco in 2012, disconnected Russian clients from cloud services. On November 5, the Habr user with Nick Gryphonv showed that the company removed its devices (access points) remotely and created a special network where the equipment was signed like "12345-Sanctions", only with different numbers for each device. Any user could access these devices.

Not only did Meraki take control of them, but also removed from the accounts in her services and demanded to return the equipment without any compensation by the manufacturer. In November, Gryphonv and another user with Nick Edward (@edtlt) tried in different ways to start access points and a Merki router.

The access point was connected with the help of an additional router with the built -in VPN and the European IP, then enter the cloud service managing panel, but with the router such a focus did not pass. On December 8, Edward received a letter from Meraki, after which the access point was re -operated directly. It is unknown why Meraki suddenly softened the restriction. The company may be trying to understand how the Russians bypass them to then "cut" alternative ways to connect.