Robin Gareiss, an analyst at New York-based Nemertes Research, said the LEAP vulnerability "damages Cisco's credibility" since the company has marketed it heavily as a secure system. According to a recent independent study done of the enterprise wireless LAN market by Nemertes, 46% of the IT executives surveyed said their companies use LEAP.

The LEAP problems could also affect Cisco's efforts to market to new customers, she said. According to Gareiss, a survey she conducted of 60 top executives from Fortune 500 companies showed that a number of those looking to deploy WLANs "were assessing Cisco products."

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