CyberUK 21 SolarWinds’ chief exec has described the 18,000 customers who downloaded backdoored versions of its Orion software as a “very small” number while giving a speech to an infosec event.
Sudhakar Ramakrishna, who joined the biz in January, made the comparison while giving the opening keynote at the CyberUK conference, organised by Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). He'll also be giving a talk on the topic at this month's RSA Conference in the US, presumably part of an extended apology tour.
“Although the number of affected customers is very small, that we eventually discovered, it is still a very important thing to discover, because this is a unique and very novel attack on the supply chain of a company,” said Ramakrishna in his opening remarks – adding that “none of our source code control systems were tampered with.”
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