It’s the economy, stupid.
By Bruce Schneier
Mr. Schneier is a security technologist and the author of 14 books, including “Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World.” He is a fellow at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Feb. 23, 2021
Credit.Alex Merto
Early in 2020, cyberspace attackers apparently working for the Russian government compromised a piece of widely used network management software made by a company called SolarWinds. The hack gave the attackers access to the computer networks of some 18,000 of SolarWinds’s customers, including U.S. government agencies such as the Homeland Security Department and State Department, American nuclear research labs, government contractors, IT companies and nongovernmental agencies around the world.