Cisco Systems has reached an $8.6 million settlement to resolve allegations that it knowingly sold video surveillance software with critical security vulnerabilities to federal, state, and local government agencies, leaving government systems vulnerable to hackers.
The outcome is precedent-setting, believed to be the “first cyber-security whistleblower case of its kind ever successfully litigated under the False Claims Act,” according to the attorneys who represented the whistleblower in the case.
