These Cisco Routers Have An Unpatchable Critical Security Flaw, Upgrade ASAP
Well, because of its rather large library of networking products, like many manufacturers, it sunsets support for devices no longer being manufactured. Today is no different. Certain things like limitations in hardware, and even software capabilities even make the ability to update or patch certain products quite impossible. That is the case with these routers from the manufacturer.
Cisco RV215W
Networking equipment can get expensive to replace, however, it's a lot less costly than experiencing significant downtime, or denial of service due to security breaches. Additionally the recommendation to replace the hardware is good in that there truly is just better hardware out there now, with better encryption methods and and even just faster speeds. Besides, Cisco doesn't even sell these particular models anymore.