You're listening to the CyberWire X, a series of specials where we highlight important security topics

affecting organizations around the world.

I'm Dave Bitner.

Today's episode is titled Solar Winds Sunburst and Supply Chain Security.

The Solar Winds Orion Sunburst exploit forced organizations to determine whether and to what

extent they'd been compromised.

It's not enough to eject the intruders and their malware from the networks.

Affected organizations also need to know what systems and data had been breached and for how long.

The adversary behind Sunburst is advanced, quietly breaching the perimeter and moving freely

to access, steal, or destroy business critical data and to disrupt operations.

We begin the show with my conversation with Ryan Olson, Vice President of Threat Intelligence

of Palo Alto's Unit 42.

Later in the show were joined by Bill Urick, President and founder of Inspired Hacking Solutions.

And we'll conclude our discussion with our show sponsor, ExtraHops, Matt Cawthorn.

To discuss the challenges of detecting these advanced threats and to share insights from behavioral

analysis on what the new breed of thread actor is doing inside our networks.

A program note, each CyberWire X special features two segments.

In the first part of the show we'll hear from industry experts

on the topic at hand and in the second part we'll hear from our show sponsor for their

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