Lou Manousos, CEO, RiskIQ The SolarWinds breach is a case study in how attackers can subvert a widely used piece of software to turn it to their advantage, says Lou Manousos, CEO of RiskIQ. “The magnitude of this attack is hard to overstate,” Manousos says. “Having a supply chain vendor like this - with a legitimate program that is trusted - used to carry out an attack, it’s just unprecedented. ”The number of organizations that have been hit, the types of organizations - some really advanced security programs - I think we’re all shocked to see how the traditional protection that has been put in place just wasn’t as effective as we would have liked when we have trusted software like this.”