We Already Know How to Stop SolarWinds-Like Hacks

Last year, hackers made headlines after they breached SolarWinds, a software company that specializes in network monitoring software. About 33,000 organizations, including the Pentagon, the U.S. State Department, and some intelligence agencies, use Orion, one of SolarWinds’ products. Orion was designed to monitor the users’ networks to make sure they were functioning properly and, ironically, kept safe. 

The breach seems to have with an attack on Microsoft products, including the Microsoft Office 365 server SolarWinds was using. Office 365 handles email, among other things, and email servers are notoriously hard to protect against malware infection because they have to to them.