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Kevin Thompson, SolarWinds president and CEO, said his company is "Aware of a potential vulnerability" that may have been in "Updates which were released between March and June 2020 to our Orion monitoring products." The vandalized SolarWinds code is said to have been exploited by miscreants to sneak into networks within the US government bodies, among them the Treasury and the Department of Commerce's telecoms agency NTIA, where Orion is used.
SolarWinds and its Board of Directors have named Sudhakar Ramakrishna as the company's new President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, each to become effective on January 4, 2021. "Following an extensive and thorough search, we are delighted to welcome Sudhakar Ramakrishna as SolarWinds' new CEO as we embark on an exciting new chapter in the company's history," said Bill Bock, Chairman of the Board of SolarWinds.
SolarWinds announced an expansion of their monitoring capabilities within the Cisco Meraki Marketplace, which is now able to integrate the Cisco Meraki Dashboard API with SolarWinds N-central. "Cisco Meraki offers a comprehensive set of cloud solutions that give IT providers the opportunity to streamline and simplify the digital workplace, a goal that has never been more paramount as the definition of the workplace is in flux. Daily shifts from work from home and returning to the office require an elastic office space and IT infrastructure," said Mav Turner, group vice president of products for SolarWinds MSP. "This goal is fully aligned with SolarWinds MSP, as we work to empower MSPs to more easily fulfill a market need that has spiked almost overnight. As MSP customers seek their help more than ever, we believe the integration with Cisco Meraki and N-central will play another important role in supporting them."
Which works to detect and compare configuration changes to servers, databases, and applications, now integrates a policy compliance engine aimed at helping IT teams simplify and more efficiently achieve compliance and compliance reporting, with an initial focus on the federal space. By integrating a policy compliance engine focused on select STIG policies, makes it easier for federal IT pros to automatically check systems and applications for STIG compliance, deliver clear and quick compliance results for auditing purposes, and identify non-compliant elements for more efficient remediation.