Security News > 2021 > January > SolarWinds takes a leaf out of Zoom's book, hires A-Team of Stamos and Krebs to sort out its security woes

Embattled and embarrassed network management shop SolarWinds has reportedly hired two of the highest profile security bods in the biz to sort out its woes.

On Friday the news broke that Chris Krebs, formerly the head of the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency until he was fired by presidential tweet for saying the American election wasn't hacked, has started a consultancy with former Facebook and Yahoo! security chief Alex Stamos.

It's a similar tactic to that used by Zoom when the videoconferencing platform was beset by serious security flaws earlier in the year.

"Since the confirmation of unauthorized access, Kawasaki special project team engaged with an independent external security specialist firm [that] has been investigating and implementing countermeasures. Their investigation confirmed a possibility that information of unknown content may have been leaked to a third party."

As the Trump administration prepares to leave office Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has created the Bureau of Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies.

"The CSET bureau will lead US government diplomatic efforts on a wide range of international cyberspace security and emerging technology policy issues that affect U.S. foreign policy and national security, including securing cyberspace and critical technologies, reducing the likelihood of cyber conflict, and prevailing in strategic cyber competition," he said in a statement.

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