SolarWinds,
a leading provider of simple, powerful, and secure IT management
software, announced it will serve as a silver sponsor and
participant in the Gartner virtual
IT Symposium/Xpo conferences in the Americas, APAC, EMEA, and India
during the months of October and November 2021. Heralded as "the world's
most important gathering of CIOs and IT executives," SolarWinds will
showcase its recent IT Trends Report findings on the cybersecurity and
risk challenges organizational leaders face today, and provide guidance
to IT leaders during the company's presentation, "Becoming Secure by
Design: Questions You Should Ask Your Software Vendors."
At
each event, SolarWinds CISO and Vice President, Security Tim Brown and
GVP, Product Strategy Brandon Shopp will share lessons learned from
SUNBURST, the largest supply chain attack in cyber history, and where
SolarWinds is on its journey to becoming Secure by Design.
They'll share how IT leaders can apply this hard-earned knowledge to
improve their security posture and the questions leaders should ask
their software vendors.
"SolarWinds
has learned many invaluable lessons from the SUNBURST cyberattack, and
we're committed to sharing these lessons with the wider technology
community to help them manage and mitigate the pressure and risk we're
all facing," said Brown. "Any vendor could be the next target, which is
why we encourage all organizations to ask more of every vendor they
consider to help better protect themselves and their end users. We're
proud to showcase the improvements we've implemented to increase our
security posture for end users, and the advancements we've made to
become a leader in secure software development."
Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo Conferences Worldwide
The
Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo conferences will take place in key regions
worldwide and will include a number of sessions within the Business
Strategy, Leadership, and Technology Innovation tracks. Keynotes and
sessions will share the latest insights on IT leadership skills and
strategies, CX management, IT security, digital business transformation,
and more.
Secure by Design
To
address the industry-wide ramifications of the SUNBURST cyberattack and
help strengthen its own security posture going forward, SolarWinds has
an initiative underway to become Secure by Design. Under this approach,
SolarWinds is focused on further securing its internal environment,
enhancing its product development environment, and ensuring the security
and integrity of the products it delivers as it seeks to evolve into an
industry-leading secure software development company.
The
learnings resulting from the SUNBURST investigation have also presented
an opportunity for SolarWinds to lead an industry-wide effort around
transparency and collaboration, and for SolarWinds to develop a new
model for secure software environments, development processes, and
products. SolarWinds is developing best practices to enhance our
security posture and policies, while also serving as a guide for other
organizations as they work to prevent future attacks. Customers,
partners, and IT professionals can follow along with the SolarWinds
Secure by Design blog content and join live webcasts hosted by members
of the SolarWinds executive team, its Head GeeksTM,
customers, Partners, and industry cybersecurity experts to learn more
about Secure by Design best practices and learnings from the SUNBURST
attack.
SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2021: Building a Secure Future
SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2021: Building a Secure Future explores
how tech pros perceive the state of risk in today's business
environment, and how the global pandemic impacted technology investments
across IT teams. The key findings uncover a reality in which exposure
to enterprise IT risk is common across organizations-but perceptions of
apathy and complacency surrounding risk preparedness are high as
businesses exit a year of pandemic-driven "crisis mode."
Tech
pros outlined key areas of technology investment and upskilling that
prioritize cloud computing, network infrastructure solutions, and
security/compliance-demonstrating an inherent awareness that falling
behind is potentially the greatest risk of all. This year's study
reveals the immense opportunity ahead for tech pros and IT leadership to
align and collaborate on priorities and policies to best position not
only individual organizations but the industry at large to succeed in a
future built for risk.