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As Thornton-Trump points out: “If you leave your door unlocked you can let a 1,000 hackers into your living room.Blazingly fast cyber threat detection and tools for remediation SolarWinds was a stealthy and stunningly damaging breach, and a stark warning to all firms of the importance of getting the security basics right. This was the sophistication in the planning and then in the testing to see if they could pull it off.” They only had one chance to get the malware into place to do its thing without revealing their compromise.
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“They needed to do most of the malware testing offline because if a build failed because of the malicious code, their sinister plot to infect Orion would be revealed. Thornton-Trump describes how once inside SolarWinds, hackers were then able to “completely document and replicate the build environment.” “We hope to set a new standard in this regard and are committed to sharing our learnings and implementation plans with the industry.” SolarWinds: A stealthy and damaging hack
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“Armed with what we have learned about this attack, we are fortifying and implementing additional security practices in our infrastructure and software development processes,” the spokesperson says. SolarWinds says its investments are in line with those “recommended by industry analysts such as IDC” and highlighted that the firm “hired a very experienced VP of security” in 2017. The spokesperson told me that the company believes that its investment in security has “consistently been appropriate for a company of our size,” adding that the firm has “continued to increase that spend by double digit percentages annually since 2017.” government and its agencies to create a more secure environment for all.” “This attack and its subsequent exploitation underscore the need for a public and private partnership through which all leading companies in the tech sector are empowered to partner with the U.S. “It is widely understood that no one company could protect itself against a sustained and unprecedented attack of this kind, as was experienced by us and the broader software industry. SolarWinds sent me a statement over email, which reads: “SolarWinds was one of a number of targets of a highly sophisticated, broad and coordinated cyber-attack by a foreign government that compromised multiple software companies. SolarWinds: “No one company could protect itself against a sustained and unprecedented attack of this kind” One of the flaws could’ve allowed a hacker to gain complete remote control of a targeted SolarWinds system, according to researchers at security company Trustwave. I am doing that by working directly with the SolarWinds team to lead the immediate improvement of critical business and product development systems, with the goal of making SolarWinds an enterprise software industry security leader.”Įarlier this month, a handful of “severe” vulnerabilities were discovered in SolarWinds Orion. “Armed with what we have learned of this attack, we are reflecting on our own security practices and seeking opportunities to enhance our posture and policies. The firm’s new CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna wrote in a recent blog that SolarWinds is urgently adding security controls and working to evolve into a “secure by design” company. Yet SolarWinds acknowledges the need for changes following the 2020 breach. Indeed, he points out, “this epic hack would have taken far more effort if establishing a foothold in the SolarWinds network was more difficult.” SolarWinds is ‘reflecting on’ its security practices