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Michael Schueler

Incident Manager

Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT)

Michael Schueler is an Incident Manager at Cisco's Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) where he focuses on vulnerability management and disclosure and Cisco products forensic. Prior to this he was working as a Customer Support Engineer at the Cisco EMEA TAC solving highly complex customer issues in technologies ranging from firewalls, virtual private networks (VPN), intrustion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS) over load-balancing and WAN optimization to data center switching.

Michael holds a M.Sc. level degree in computer science (Dipl.-Inform.) from RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

He is also CCIE Security #23835.

Articles

February 27, 2017

SECURITY

Cisco PSIRT – Mitigating and Detecting Potential Abuse of Cisco Smart Install Feature

Cisco PSIRT has become aware of attackers potentially abusing the Smart Install (SMI) feature in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software. While this is not considered a vulnerability, PSIRT published a Cisco Security Response on February 14, 2017 to inform customers about possible abuse of the Smart Install f…