Abstract

A significant cybersecurity event has recently been discovered in which malicious actors gained access to the source code for the Orion monitoring and management software made by the company SolarWinds and inserted malware into that source code. This article contains brief perspectives from a few members of the IEEE Security & Privacy editorial board regarding that incident.

Date

March 22, 2021

Authors

Sean Peisert, Bruce Schneier, Hamed Okhravi, Fabio Massacci, Terry Benzel, Carl Landwehr, Mohammad Mannan, Jelena Mirkovic, Atul Prakash, James Bret Michael

Journal

IEEE Security & Privacy

Volume

19

Issue

2

Pages

7-13

Publisher

IEEE