Security

Upgrade Tales From the Ticket Queue

03/05/21 As you might imagine, it’s a bit of a busy time here at SolarWinds HQ. There is A LOT going on, not the least of which is encouraging our customers to upgrade before March…

Secure by Design: Getting Our Customers Back to Business

03/05/21 Organizations stopped in their tracks when the cyberattack occurred. When you’re focused on taking the right actions to protect your environment, your users, and your enti…

Confessions of an Upgrade Cheerleader

03/02/21 If you’re a SolarWinds customer, there’s a good chance you’ve seen a video of a Head Geek, passionately urging you to upgrade to the latest and greatest version Right Now.…

“SUDO Teach Me a Lesson”

03/02/21 The command “sudo” is an essential part of Vax, Unix, and Linux operating systems. It’s so intrinsic to how SysAdmins work, many consider “sudo” to be a built-in command a…

Change Is Hard

03/01/21 I.T. folks understand change can be hard, and I don’t mean in the “Who Moved My Cheese” kind of way. Change, as in “change control,” is necessary. But we don’t like the pr…

Upgrade Better, Faster, Stronger

03/01/21 Because of the recent cyberattack, we’ve asked you to update your Orion Platform several times. While these updates are necessary for the safety and performance of your en…

Secure by Design: Our Plan for a Safer SolarWinds and Customer Community

02/05/21 Companies must change the way they operate to combat increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks across ever-expanding attack surfaces. What we learn from one attack can help …

Continuing Our Journey to Becoming Secure by Design

02/03/21 Since we announced the cyberattack on the Orion Platform seven weeks ago, we’ve worked tirelessly with our customers and Partners to ensure the safety and security of thei…

New Findings From Our Investigation of SUNBURST

01/11/21 Since the cyberattack on our customers and SolarWinds, we have been working around the clock to support our customers. As we shared in our recent update, we are partnering…

Finding Zen – How IT Ops and IT Security Can Work Together

11/20/20 IT Ops and security teams don’t always have a perfect relationship. While IT Ops teams are focused on making work and communication seamless and accessible (and therefore …

Winning On Tomorrow’s Interconnected Battlefields

11/16/20 With the U.S. national security plan highlighting the need for both information dominance and protection, the Department of Defense is considering plans like modernizing m…

Protecting Your Data Privacy

10/27/20 Protecting your identity is becoming more and more difficult. Though many people don’t stop to consider it, even the most minor conveniences can go hand in hand with an in…