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The Department of Commerce was one of many agencies and companies attacked worldwide by Russia’s APT 29 via SolarWinds Orion servers. Today’s special columnist, Kelvin Coleman of the NCSA, offers some analysis and practical advice for security pros. Tim Evanson Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Threat Management

SolarWinds: A devastating lesson in third-party vendor vulnerabilities

Kelvin ColemanDecember 17, 2020

Chances are, we’re far from fully seeing the fallout from the SolarWinds incident. But to understand why SolarWinds was attacked, we have to first identify what makes it attractive to bad actors.