Sponsor Insight Cyber Crime is an issue for all of us. Do you want to be a part of the solution? By Newsweek Educational Insight Team Leading Cybersecurity Programs 2021 You have probably heard about the massive scale of the SolarWinds hack which affected the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, and the Treasury – and that's on the public side. In the private sector, companies like Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, and Deloitte had their cyber defenses breached, and in California, the Department of State Hospitals was also compromised. Apart from the scale of the attack, one of the many concerning aspects was that it was underway for months before anyone noticed, and by the time it was flagged up there were infected systems all over the world. The attack was exposed in 2020 but we are still working to understand and mitigate the damage that has been done.