Answer to Question #265634 in Computer Networks for nothando

Question

Research the ‘SolarWinds Hack’ and discuss your findings. Your discussion should put an emphasis on the follow (not limited to the list): • the assets of Solarwinds (including the type of data exposed and affected bodies) • which vulnerability was exposed (including the risk before the breach and measure that were in place to avoid it) • threat actor • the timeline of the attack • threat vector (provide details) • solarwinds defense and post attack productivity the discussion should be one page long, use more than one source and reference.

Answer 1

SolarWinds is a US based software company which provides the system management tools for the network and infrastructure monitoring services and many more things. It was the one of the product of the company, among the company's products, ,it is an IT performance monitoring system called Orion. It has prvilaged to use IT system to obtain log and system performance data. It is commonly a supply chain branch which involves the SolarWinds Orionn system,

which was a subject of cyber attack in 2020. In which a malicious software was spreaded to it's client with the software and which was undetected for a months. It was firstly reported in december. The attacker was belongs from the foreign means Russia based hacker did this attack to the US based IT software company. Attacker used the hack to spy on private companies like the elite cybersecurity firm , fire Eye and the upper echelons of the US governmentt, including the department of Homeland security and treasury department.