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Wednesday, 5 January 2022

You can’t stop the ‘next SolarWinds’ — but you can slow it down

It was one of the biggest questions in cybersecurity of 2021, and it’s sure to remain on the minds of countless businesses into 2022, too: How do you prevent a software supply chain attack?

Such attacks have soared by 650% since mid-2020, due in large part to infiltration of open source software, according to a recent study by Sonatype.

But an even bigger driver of the question, of course, has been the unprecedented attack on SolarWinds and customers of its Orion network monitoring platform. In the attack, threat actors compromised the platform with malicious code that was then distributed as an update to thousands of customers, including numerous federal agencies.

Find out more, HERE