People cast their shadows on an American flag. SC Media Editor in Chief Jill Aitoro argued that the SolarWinds hack exposed not only vulnerabilities within the supply chain, but also the dangers of arrogance and complacency. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
In an interview I did with Kevin Mandia, he said this: “If your supply chain is compromised, so are you, since the networks so often get connected. Let’s say small company C gets compromised. Does it lead to a compromise of big company A? It usually does.”
That interview was eight years ago. Mandia was CEO of Mandiant at the time, which had just released a report linking the Chinese military to a series of cyberattacks on U.S. and foreign corporations and entities.
And now here we are: U.S. companies and government agencies are scrambling to control the bleeding from a cyberattack that infiltrated the supply chain, first discovered by FireEye, with CEO Mandia sounding the alarm bells.
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