In mid-December, SolarWinds acknowledged that it experienced a massive supply chain attack where its compromised software channel was used to push out malicious updates to 18,000 of its Orion platform customers.

In this unprecedented breach, several government agencies were impacted, which included the Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security, and others.

And much of the ongoing commentary around the breach focuses why and how it happened. But really points to the need for government agencies to go back to the cyber basics.

This is why Makpar recently published a white paper that lays out its top five simple cyber tips for preventing a future attack. And today, we are speaking with Mustafa Lutfi, an InfoSec Consultant at Makpar, more about this.

PODCAST: The SolarWinds Breach Points to Need for Cyber Basics

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