Details of the 2020 SolarWinds attack continue to unfold, and it may be years before the final damages can be tallied.
While it is “hard to say” if the SolarWinds software supply-chain compromise will become known as the highest-impact cyber intrusion ever, it did catch “many people off guard” despite the security industry’s frequent warnings that supply chains pose substantial risks, according to Eric Parizo, principal analyst of security operations at Omdia, a global research firm.
The SolarWinds attack is unprecedented because of its capability to cause significant physical consequences, says University of Richmond management professor Shital Thekdi, an expert on risk management and industrial and operations engineering. The attack impacted critical infrastructure providers, potentially impacting energy and manufacturing capacities,” she said, and created an ongoing intrusion that “should be treated as a serious event with potential for great harm.”
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Question of the Day Cybersecurity experts say the attack on SolarWinds’ computer network management software to breach federal systems was a wake-up call to U.S. government agencies and corporate networks, but the worst may be yet to come. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File) FILE more > By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times - Wednesday, March 17, 2021
A bipartisan coalition of 14 House Energy and Commerce Committee lawmakers wrote to senior Biden administration officials and Cabinet officers on Wednesday seeking answers about the fallout from the SolarWinds hack of computer network management software.
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Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. In 2002, he and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.
OPINION When it comes to cyberspace, “the United States is on the defensive,” James A. Lewis, Cipher Brief Expert and Director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told the 2021 Cyber Command Legal Conference last Thursday.
U.S. Plans Russian Sanctions For SolarWinds Breach: Report
The Biden administration plans to classify the SolarWinds campaign as ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘disruptive’ to distinguish it from espionage activities the U.S. conducts against adversaries, The Washington Post reported. By Michael Novinson February 23, 2021, 01:20 PM EST
The United States is planning sanctions to punish Russia for the SolarWinds hack and strengthening its defenses to get more visibility into government networks, The Washington Post reported.
The Biden administration plans to classify the SolarWinds breach as “indiscriminate” and “disruptive” in an effort to distinguish it from espionage activities the U.S. conducts against adversaries, according to the Post. This will pave the way for the U.S. to sanction those responsible for the SolarWinds attack, The Post reported.