The SolarWinds Hack, which hit government agencies and private companies alike, is startling in its scope, but as a business owner you’d do well to consider how it got as big as it did. The lessons already learned from this event should prove instructive and help prevent future incursions.
As a small business with limited resources, you will likely look to standards in your sector or to market leaders for best practices – including the selection of technologies that will help secure your business. When shopping for software to protect your small business, you might be impressed by a customer list that includes large, well-known, successful companies. And who could blame you? Giant companies have entire departments set up to assess a product or service. That’s both how SolarWinds got so big and how small businesses got wrapped up in its recent hack, which is likely to be seen as the most significant cyber attack in modern history.
You might think none of this applies to you, but you’d be wrong. In our increasingly interdependent, digital world, hackers often don’t waste time trying to breach a fortified global enterprise, when easy-to-hack vulnerabilities lie in their supply…
