Will SolarWinds recover from this breach?
Board Member, Advisor, Executive Coach in Software, Self-employed
SolarWinds might be one of those companies that doesn't recover from it, depending upon the liability that gets across. There was just a class action lawsuit filed, which we all know how those go. Those end up being wonky things that take years. But I do know a bunch of people that have shut off SolarWinds and they're flying blind. The question becomes, "Is the next solution any less risky?" And if they come to the conclusion it's not and SolarWinds is at least operationally better because they've got the tooling and the experience, they're going to stay with SolarWinds, in which case, there's just going to be this blip.Managing Partner & CISO in Software, 11 - 50 employees
There’s been a 34% drop, so I'm waiting for it to pop back up. It was only a few days ago it came out that Microsoft's source code may have been compromised and it's a blip because they're like, "Well, it's Microsoft. They may have lost their source code, but you know what? Let's just not talk about that."
Board Member, Advisor, Executive Coach in Software, Self-employed
Well, to be honest, they had to give their source code to the Chinese years ago anyway. Right?
Managing Partner & CISO in Software, 11 - 50 employees
Sure.
CISO in Finance (non-banking), 501 - 1,000 employees
If JetBrains turns out to be the reason why SolarWinds happened, that could be a get-out-of-jail-free card for SolarWinds.Board Member, Advisor, Executive Coach in Software, Self-employed
Oh, that's true too. Although that CEO just came out recently and said they weren't behind it, there's no implications. So whether or not that's true, we'll see. But they've denied any connection to it.
Senior Information Security Manager in Software, 501 - 1,000 employees
Of course it will, as most companies do.From Yahoo, Equifax, to Home Depot, Target and countless more. They all recovered from significant breaches.
CIO in Education, 1,001 - 5,000 employees
They might. How SolarWinds customers recover from this breach is also an interesting question. Who will you trust? How will you continue to patch? Is there a vendor who is any better or in whom you’d have more confidence that this can’t or won’t be repeated?Content you might like
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whatttCTO in Software, 201 - 500 employees
Without a doubt - Technical Debt! It's a ball and chain that creates an ever increasing drag on any organization, stifles innovation, and prevents transformation.
That's been true for almost all breaches. I have an investment theory that I've mapped. I haven't spent the money, though I should've. It's called BOB, Buy On Breach.
That's what I mean. Plus, there's some actual interesting nationalism components at play in the SolarWinds situation. I had this conversation with somebody, actually, just last week. And they were like, "Hey, this is crazy. Can you believe this?" And I was like, "Tell me what the largest Russian company in the world is or any of their top 100 largest companies." And they're like, "Well, I don't know." And I'm like, "The same way that U.S. companies are collateral casualties of war for these nation-states, like Russia and China, we have to recognize that those Russian companies are collateral casualties of war for our NSA and CIA as well." And it's this interesting, "Oh my gosh, I can't believe they're doing this," but let's really forget about any of the nuclear reactors that we hypothetically may or may not have blown up. It's just this really, really interesting piece here.
I would hope to god that we have the same level of mutually assured destruction in some of their systems, if we're to use a deterrent on the mass weapons of destruction stuff, right?