SEC drops SolarWinds lawsuit that painted a target on CISOs everywhere

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has abandoned the lawsuit it pursued against SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer for misleading investors about security practices that led to the 2020 SUNBURST attack. In a joint motion filed Thursday, the SEC along with SolarWinds and its Chief Information Security Officer …

[Anonymous Coward]

Revictimising the victim? No, penalizing the fakers.

(FYI, cloudflare is still having problems...)

[Giles C]

Lost faith in the company

I used to be a solarwinds admin and really liked the product - well maybe not the map drawing part but most of it.

However after the hack (at this point I wasn’t running a monitoring system) I don’t know why anyone would have bought the product.

About a year ago I was involved in selecting a new monitoring tool for the network, even though it is 4 years after the hack we wouldn’t even give it serious consideration, we did ask for a demo but it was for completeness so we could say it had been looked at and discounted.

Would I use it again yes. Would I recommend it for a new install - No, the taint is still there.