P2P Hosts SolarWinds Hack Virtual Forum

The morning of January 6th, 2021, P2P hosted a Virtual Forum on the SolarWinds Hack featuring a presentation from former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers and IDX CEO Tom Kelly. Among the attendees were Congressman Jim Langevin, Congressman Bill Foster, Australian Ambassador Arthur Sinodinos, senior staff from the embassies of Canada and New Zealand including Alistair Wallbaum and Jennifer Troup, and senior congressional staff from both chambers of Congress and both sides of the aisle including Kate O’Connor, Joe Charlet, Lauren Canfield, and Jessica Martinez.

 Mr. Rogers (left) and Mr. Kelly (right) explored the implications of the hack and what it means to different organizations as well as to our government – the presentation was followed by Q&A with the audience, which reached about 60 individuals. Both Rogers and Kelly provide the participants with specific actions to take now to mitigate the potential damage.

“I predict that the implications of the hack will prove far-reaching and ultimately result in significant compromise to the privacy of American consumers.”  - Tom Kelly, CEO of IDX

“The SolarWinds breach could be the most significant cyber incident in American history… As we work to uncover the full extent of the hack, we need to get a grip on our collective national cyber defenses.” - The Honorable Mike Rogers, Vice Chair of MITRE and Former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committe.

Congressman Jim Langevin offered keen insight not only in explaining the gravity of the hack at large, but also in how we move forward in preventing these attacks in the future:

“This cyber intrusion was highly sophisticated, and there was no comparable attack like it, quite frankly. It took a nation-state – and a very determined, well-financed, well-resourced threat actor – to pull this off, and they did it.”

“If we are just looking at detecting these anomalies and intrusions through cyber means, I think we’ve already lost the battle. We have to get out of this mindset of just cyber detection, and we need to expand and beef up our all-source intelligence.”

Congressman Jim Langevin participating in Q&A with Chairman Mike Rogers and Tom Kelly.