Leaked Cisco Documents Show Crisis Response for Israeli Military Unit Sapir
Leaked internal Cisco documents show the company moved into a crisis response mode after Israel's military intelligence agency reported repeated network failures about a year into the Gaza war.
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Why it matters
The documents put Cisco's support for Israeli military intelligence on the record at a time when the larger cloud providers it supplies face public scrutiny, and they show the company treating a military customer's network failures as a retention problem.
Key Facts
- Leaked Cisco documents describe a crisis response after Israel's military intelligence agency reported repeated network failures about a year into the Gaza war.
- Cisco sent senior staff, worked on bug fixes for several months, and dispatched staff to meet with the Israeli military unit Sapir.
- The document was created in September 2025 and leaked by a Cisco employee who objected to the company's relationship with the Israeli military.
- Bridge to Humanity, a group of current and former Cisco employees, said the work contradicts the values Cisco markets to employees, customers, investors, and the public.
- Cisco subsidiary Splunk was pitching participation in Project Nimbus, a cloud computing contract between the Israeli government and Google and Amazon.
Cisco sent senior staff, spent months on bug fixes, and met in person with the secretive unit Sapir, then recorded the customer as satisfied and presented the work internally as a customer success story. A Cisco employee leaked the September 2025 document.
The document dates to September 2025 and was leaked by a Cisco employee who objected to the company's relationship with the Israeli military. It describes an agency executive warning that repeated technical failures had become an operational risk and that the deal would be terminated if they continued. Cisco's response was to mobilize senior staff, work on bug fixes for several months, and dispatch people to meet with Sapir, a unit the documents describe as known for secrecy.
Bridge to Humanity, a group of current and former Cisco employees, said the work contradicts the values Cisco markets to employees, customers, investors, and the public. The group also said Cisco continued to expand the relationship while the mass killing of civilians in Gaza was public and governments and international organizations were calling Israel's actions genocide.
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