On Oct. 30, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged SolarWinds and its former Chief Information Security Officer — Timothy G. Brown — in a 68-page complaint  alleging that the company and its then security head defrauded investors and customers through “misstatements, omissions and schemes that concealed both the company’s poor cybersecurity practices and its heightened — and increasing — cybersecurity risks.”

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from AppSec Observer authored by Lisa Vaas, Senior Content Marketing Manager, Contrast Security. Read the original post at: https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/four-things-cisos-should-do-now-to-protect-from-being-scapegoated