SolarWinds Aftermath: 'This Hit the Security Community Hard'
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 h...