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Sep 11, 2026
Anup TripathiGUEST
This goes to year 2000.
Anup TripathiGUEST
So the voice over IP was a big thing, and we were building an IP PBX at 3Com.
Anup TripathiGUEST
He
Anup TripathiGUEST
was a big company, a competitor of Cisco in networking and enterprise telecommunication space.
Richard BlanfordGUEST
So we've been through three significant transformations as a business and what we do and how we do it, but always within the IT space and always looking after particular s- uh, sets of customers.
James WhiteHOST
It's inter- it's interesting, 'cause like, so, so my first job out of, uh, university was with a company called 3Com, who you might remember, the old company-
Richard BlanfordGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Richard BlanfordGUEST
We sold 3Com kit, you know.
James WhiteHOST
There you go.
James WhiteHOST
So you-
Richard BlanfordGUEST
Mm-hmm
James WhiteHOST
... which is, so yeah, so switching and data networking was definitely my first-
Doug WhiteHOST
We got a guy named Bob standing over there with a double barrel sawed-off shotgun.
Doug WhiteHOST
And you're like, but I logged into your 3Com router with the default password.
Doug WhiteHOST
What? You know, I mean, infrastructure devices are really becoming prime targets currently, and they provide attackers with, you know, a nice, comfortable place to stage surveillance and internal attacks.
Doug WhiteHOST
Not to mention those poor old infrastructure devices haven't had a patch or an oil change since your grandfather ran the farm.
Doug WhiteHOST
SonicWall warned customers that two zero days could be chained together to create a remote code execution attack and advised users of the SMA 1000 to be patched with the latest hotfix.
Doug WhiteHOST
Yeah, you've been, you've been checking that, right? You secured those desktops, but did you even change the default password on that 3COM router? I know I get in on some pen tests that way.
Doug WhiteHOST
You know, they're like, "Oh yeah, we took care of everything.
Doug WhiteHOST
We got all this endpoint security.
Doug WhiteHOST
We got antivirus, we got anti-malware.
Doug WhiteHOST
We got a guy named Bob standing over there with a double barrel sawed-off shotgun." And you're like, "But I logged into your 3COM router with the default password." What? You know, I mean, infrastructure devices are really becoming prime targets currently, and they provide attackers with hi-, uh, y- you know, a nice comfortable place to stage surveillance and internal attacks.
Doug WhiteHOST
Not to mention those poor old infrastructure devices haven't had a patch or an oil change since your grandfather ran the farm.
Doug WhiteHOST
I mean, how many days of uptime are there on that 2621 router that's down in the firehouse or that Catalyst switch that's in the machine shop and it's been there since the machine shop was a radioactive waste storage facility, and you get a kind of buzzy feeling when you touch the sticky surface of it? You know, you just keep telling yourself, "Alpha radiation won't hurt me if I wash my hands thoroughly.
Doug WhiteHOST
We got a guy named Bob standing over there with a double barrel sawed-off shotgun.
Doug WhiteHOST
And you're like, but I logged into your 3Com router with the default password.
Doug WhiteHOST
What? You know, I mean, infrastructure devices are really becoming prime targets currently, and they provide attackers with, you know, a nice, comfortable place to stage surveillance and internal attacks.
Doug WhiteHOST
Not to mention those poor old infrastructure devices haven't had a patch or an oil change since your grandfather ran the farm.
Larry TamanHOST
Ricci.
Larry TamanHOST
Ron Ricci, the man who hired her for her first job at Neil May, brings her on at 3Com, then a very large tech hardware company, as PR manager for their largest business product line.
Larry TamanHOST
At 3Com, Krista then moves into her first pure marketing position, becoming solutions marketing manager, and later moves into field marketing manager covering the eastern U.S. and Canada.
Larry TamanHOST
All right, it's now 2006, and Krista gets a great opportunity to join Cisco as Senior Brand Marketing Manager, where she spends the next 10 years in increasingly prominent roles.
Larry TamanHOST
Just to be clear, Branders, this is the tech company with a C, not the food services company with an S. Cisco today is an important global tech company, but in 06, it was really flying high.
Jessica WachterGUEST
There was negative stub values.
Jessica WachterGUEST
Um, so for example, um, the famous example of, uh, um, Palm being v- you know, we don't remember this today, but Palm was ver- was valued at a higher value than 3Com.
Jessica WachterGUEST
That, and that was not the only ex- example.
Jessica WachterGUEST
So things like that.