Whether your organization is a multinational conglomerate, or you're simply deploying Orion into Azure, AWS, or another public cloud provider, there are plenty of reasons it might be advantageous to take advantage of Orion's distrib...

A new feature we recently added to the Customer Portal we wanted to raise to your attention is the ability to set and define a named security contact for your company/organization. This contact will receive important security updates from SolarWinds,...

Announcing Our Expanded Database Solutions Portfolio – Designed to Improve the Lives of Database Professionals including Database Performance Analyzer (DPA), Database Performance Monitor (DPM), SQL Sentry, Database Mapper, Task Factory, and an all new offering: Database Insights for SQL Server.

With the recent flurry of cyber-attacks across the globe, one question we have heard from our users is best practices or recommendations on securely monitoring SaaS or cloud based resources from an on-premises monitoring solution such as Orion. In th...

The CMMC compliance level 3 is described as a managed level with all CMMC practices being documented, an existing policy that covers all activities within a company, and an existing plan that is maintained and resourced to maintain a managed cyber hy...

CMMC maps out five levels of maturity ranging from Basic Cyber Hygiene (Level 1) to Advanced/Progressive (Level 5). Level 2 of CMMC looks at two factors: processes being documented and an intermediated level of cyberhygiene as progression of Level 1....

While the IT industry is still working through the widespread ramifications of the recent cyberattack on SolarWinds and our customers, our focus has been not only to address the recent vulnerabilities but check every box we can to help make sure we&r...

As you may have seen in an email from us or on solarwinds.com, as part of our response to the SUNBURST vulnerability, we requested to revoke our digital code-signing certificate effective March 8, 2021. Recently, we’ve released new versions of ...

There has been so much information about what’s going on in the SolarWinds space, it’s hard to keep up to date with everything.  This is my attempt at summarizing everything I’ve found helpful.

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) applies to over 300,000 companies providing services to the Federal government—specifically, the Department of Defense (DoD). The CMMC Framework was released in January 2020 and as a final step of implementation starting in October 2020 all DoD contractors need to get certified by an external assessor/C3PAO (a CMMC third party assessment organization). If your company…