Like all for-profit corporations, SolarWinds aims to increase shareholder value by minimizing costs and maximizing profit. The modern market economy, which aggressively rewards corporations for short-term profits and aggressive cost-cutting, is also part of the problem: Its incentive structure all but ensures that successful tech companies will end up selling unsecure products and services. But to see the problem only as a technical shortcoming is to miss the bigger picture. government deserves considerable blame, of course, for its inadequate cyberdefense. The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the breach on Tuesday. It was a huge attack, with major implications for U.S. government agencies such as the Homeland Security Department and State Department, American nuclear research labs, government contractors, IT companies and nongovernmental agencies around the world. The hack gave the attackers access to the computer networks of some 18,000 of SolarWinds’s customers, including U.S. Early in 2020, cyberspace attackers apparently working for the Russian government compromised a piece of widely used network management software made by a company called SolarWinds.
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