This is part of a pretty disturbing general trend of large corporations using the criminal justice system as if it were an extension of themselves. I honestly don't see how anyone at Cisco who signed off on this sleeps at night.
They sleep by telling themselves that the "enemy" is doing it too, and how they wish the world wasn't this way, but being a pussy about it isn't realistic and so why shouldn't I make a living. Same logic that says if I don't shove this Jew on the train, they might be shoving me on it.