On December 14, US-based software solutions firm SolarWinds said in a US Securities and Exchanges Commission filing that its customers, about 18,000 of them, who installed updates for its Orion product could be impacted due to a cyberattack on its network.
According to Peter Bendor-Samuel, CEO, Everest Group, it is unlikely that the IT firms would be blamed since the vulnerability was with the software platform. “I think this will work to the benefit of the services industry, showing once again that you can’t take care of these issues just with software and you must continue to invest,” he added.
