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Cyber agency says SolarWinds hack could have been deterred by simple security measures

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/559426-cyber-agency-says-solarwinds-hack-could-have-been-deterred-by-simple

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But the leaders of top cybersecurity groups FireEye and CrowdStrike pushed back against the idea that a firewall could fully have prevented this attack or others.

“We do over 600 red teams a year, and firewalls never stopped one of them,” FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia testified at the same hearing in February. “A firewall is like having a gate guard outside a New York City apartment building, and they can recognize if you live there or not, but some attackers are perfectly disguised as someone who lives in the building and walks right by the gate guard.”

“In theory, it’s a sound thing, but it’s academic, in practice, it’s operationally cumbersome,” Mandia said.


CrowdStrike President and CEO George Kurtz agreed, testifying that “firewalls help, but they are insufficient,” and noting that “they are a speed bump on the information superhighway for the bad guys.”

Wyden at the hearing stood firm in noting that more could be done to strengthen the nation’s cybersecurity.

“The bottom line for me is that multiple agencies were still breached under your watch by hackers employing techniques that experts have warned about for years,” Wyden said.
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