A ‘customer success story’: leaked documents show Cisco doubled down on Israeli military deals during Gaza war

Leaked Cisco documents show the company sought to preserve and expand its business with Israeli military intelligence during the Gaza war, despite technical failures affecting military networks and protests from its own workers. The records also describe a pitch by Cisco subsidiary Splunk to join Project Nimbus, the cloud computing contract involving the Israeli government, Google and Amazon.

A 2025 document put Cisco’s Israeli military intelligence contracts at about $67m over three years and described repeated outages that undermined agencies’ confidence in the company. Cisco did not respond to a request for comment; the Israeli military said it uses services from a range of companies and would not discuss contracts. The article also reports that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found reasonable cause to believe Cisco oversaw a hostile work environment after the 7 October 2023 attacks and the subsequent war.