SolarWinds CEO talks hack, remaining questions before Capitol Hill hearings
The chief executive of SolarWinds on Monday said his company is still seeking a fuller understanding of the scope of the hack on its Orion software — and laying the groundwork for what SolarWinds, as well as the federal government, should be doing next. “What we are… still learning is the breadth and depth of the sophistication of the attackers, number one,” Sudhakar Ramakrishna said at a Center for Strategic and International Studies online event where he noted that the company’s investigation into what happened is ongoing. “Number two is the patience with which they carried out these attacks, and obviously the persistence,” he said, citing as an example that the hackers appeared to use earlier versions of Orion code as a test bed for their eventual attack. Ramakrishna took over as CEO weeks after news about the hack of SolarWinds’ updates to its Orion software had become public. The […]
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