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”Cleaning up SolarWinds hack may cost as much as $100 billion Government agencies, private corporations will spend months and billions of dollars to root out the Russian malicious code.” Gopal Ratnam January 11, 2021.
Prior to SolarWinds‘ massive cyberattack, discovered, by chance, in December 2020, it was later proven that unlawful Access had been gained via a NOT SECURE subdomain and INSECURE DNS servers that enabled the launch of the world’s largest Cyberattack, to date.
The below NOT SECURE mx.solarwinds.com subdomain screenshot was captured within days of the attack being confirmed and the DNS INSECURE DNS servers pre-dated the announcement by 8 months.
Whitethorn Shield from Cybersec Innovation Partners was used to identify these exposed, vulnerable, and quite likely exploited Internet Assets which estimates suggest have exceeded $100 billion in costs and losses.
Whitethorn Shield PPV (Pay Per Vulnerability) was launched yesterday to enable companies to gain real-time visibility of their critical Internet Assets enabling proactive, pre incident prevention as opposed to post even forensic analysis.
Other solutions such as Patch Tuesday and PDNS are Post incident and therefore Reactive at best.