To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On Sunday, December 13, 2020, SolarWinds announced that it had learned of a "highly sophisticated, manual supply chain attack" by a nation state affecting its Orion Platform, which is used by a wide variety of public and private sector organizations for IT infrastructure monitoring and management. In this attack, adversaries were able to compromise the Orion software build system for certain versions of the software, and trojanized software updates were distributed to customers between March and June 2020. According to SolarWinds, this attack may affect as many as 18,000 customers. As a result of