Blogs by Steve Hunt

December 28, 2020

A vulnerability in the SolarWinds Orion product paved the way for immense cybersecurity attacks in 2020. Attackers slipped into corporate and government agency networks using compromised user credentials and then used powerful exploits to gain elevated administrative privileges. Central to the attacker’s strategy was security assertion markup language (SAML). It is a standard that guides networks of various organizations to share login credentials of authorized users.