Cybersecurity firm SonicWall Inc. is investigating an attack on its internal systems that it describes as “highly sophisticated.” According to SonicWall, the investigation is centered around its Secure Mobile Access 100 series, which assists with end-to-end secure remote access.

The company said that a few thousand devices have been impacted and that it is trying to determine whether the attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the SMA 100 series product.

Although it sounds very similar to the recent SolarWinds cyber-attack, it is presently unknown whether this incident is related to that attack or if it was caused by the Russian-based attackers behind the SolarWinds incident.

It is clear that cybersecurity firms are being heavily targeted by cyber-attackers and are not immune from the onslaught of cyber-attacks we are seeing across the board in every industry. It also emphasizes the fact that there is no ability to completely transfer cyber risk. Data security is a team sport. Reasonable cyber-hygiene inside your organization, while using outside tools to augment your security posture, are both ways to minimize risk, but hackers are using more and more sophistication in their attacks, which present risk internally and externally. What is crystal clear from these attacks on cybersecurity firms is that cybersecurity and vendor management must continue to be a high priority for organizations in order to manage cyber risk.

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