Supply Chain Attacks Assignment

Assignment Requirements

In $2020,$ a hack against SolarWinds was revealed, which quickly proved to affect a much larger number of companies that were part of the SolarWinds supply chain, including the U$.$S$.$ government.

The hackers used a supply chain attack to insert malicious code into SolarWinds Orion, an IT performance monitoring platform. The supply chain attack targeted third parties with access to SolarWinds systems. The original attack began long before it was detected because of the way in which the backdoor malware was able to hide itself, even from antivirus software. The malware was distributed inadvertently by SolarWinds as an update or patch to Orion.

Answer the following question$($s$)$:

Do you think supply chain companies are now protected from these types of attacks? Why or why not? Fully address the questions in this discussion; provide valid rationale for your choices, where applicable.