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SEC Settlements Signal Increased Scrutiny of Cybersecurity Disclosures

McDermott Will & Emery on 11/26/2024

On October 22, 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC, or Commission) brought settled actions against four publicly traded companies that were downstream victims of the Russia-linked cyberattack on SolarWinds...more

Delaware Chancery Court Decision Dismissing Claims Against SolarWinds Corporation's Board Illuminates Contours of Director...

King & Spalding on 9/27/2022

The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent opinion in Construction Industry Laborers Pension Fund et al. v. Bingle et al., C.A. No. 2021-0494-SG (Del. Ch.) dismissing claims asserted against members of SolarWinds Corporation’s...more

The SolarWinds Cyber-Attack – The Devastation and Wreckage

The Volkov Law Group on 3/10/2021

The SolarWinds cyber-attack was devastating in scope and impact. If any lesson can be learned from this event, the SolarWinds case presents all the pitfalls, enforcement and reputational damage, rolled into one tragic series...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2021 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/22/2021

CYBERSECURITY - NYDFS - Cybersecurity Certificate of Compliance Due April 15, 2021 The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS), which regulates certain covered entities and licensed persons in the financial...more

SolarWinds Cyber-Attack Has Significant Implications for Developers and Contractors

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/15/2021

ICYMI, on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an update about what it termed “a major incident under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act”: the global SolarWinds...more

Six Information Security Tips to Mitigate the Risk of a SolarWinds-Like Breach

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI... on 1/14/2021

The impacts and implications of the recent SolarWinds breach are widespread and on-going. SolarWinds' network-monitoring and management software was used by customers worldwide—including the U.S. military, Fortune 500...more

Further Fall-Out from Russian Hacking of SolarWinds

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/8/2021

In the fall-out, the Department of Justice, which includes the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Marshal’s Service, announced this week that 3 percent of its employees’ emails were compromised as a result of the...more

A Risk-Based Approach to the SolarWinds Vulnerability Disclosures

BakerHostetler on 1/7/2021

On December 13, 2020, SolarWinds disclosed that an unknown attacker compromised its network and inserted malicious code (referred to as the Sunburst vulnerability) into software updates for the Orion platform. In what will...more

SolarWinds Cyber-Attack: CISA Recommends Disconnecting

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 12/18/2020

On the heels of the concerning security incident experienced by FireEye, during the investigation of its own incident, FireEye discovered that multiple updates issued by SolarWinds, a cybersecurity firm that many governmental...more

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