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.

Metadata

publication

IEEE Security & Privacy 19 (2), 7-13, 2021

year

2021

publication date

2021/3/22

authors

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

link

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9382367/

resource_link

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/8013/9382368/09382367.pdf

journal

IEEE Security & Privacy

volume

19

issue

2

pages

7-13

publisher

IEEE