Internal documents obtained by the Guardian show that Cisco significantly expanded its business relationship with Israeli military and intelligence agencies during the ongoing war in Gaza. According to a 2025 document reviewed by the publication, Cisco’s contracts with Israel’s military intelligence generated approximately $67 million in revenue over a three-year period.
The leaked materials, obtained by Cisco workers opposed to the company’s military involvement, reveal that Cisco experienced major technical difficulties with systems supporting Israeli intelligence operations. These problems, including multi-hour outages and repeated system crashes, threatened to damage the company’s relationship with its client. The issues emerged during a period when Israeli military networks were undergoing infrastructure updates. In a confidential September 2025 memo, Cisco acknowledged that the technical failures had severely impacted “critical operations” and undermined the confidence of Israeli intelligence agencies in the company’s services.
In response to the technical crisis, Cisco mobilized senior staff and multiple internal teams to address the problems. The company sent personnel to meet on site with a secretive Israeli military unit called Sapir, conducting what Cisco described as high-security visits necessitated by the ongoing conflict. After successfully resolving the technical issues and restoring service reliability, Cisco characterized the effort as a “customer success story” in internal presentations made between 2024 and the summer of 2025.
The documents also show that Splunk, a Cisco subsidiary, attempted to secure involvement in Project Nimbus, a controversial cloud computing contract between the Israeli government, Google, and Amazon. These business expansion efforts occurred amid extensive international documentation of civilian casualties in Gaza and growing international references to Israel’s actions as genocide.
Cisco’s actions drew criticism from Bridge to Humanity, a group of current and former employees who object to the company’s role in the Gaza war. The group characterized Cisco’s military work as contradicting the company’s stated values and argued that the business relationship made Cisco functionally equivalent to an arms manufacturer. Earlier this year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found reasonable cause to believe that Cisco had created a hostile work environment involving racist rhetoric toward Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim employees following the October 2023 attacks and subsequent war.
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